1248

1248 (MCCXLVIII) was a leap year beginning on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

• 20 November: in the Netherlands, a cyclic tide exceeds the coastal dunes in Callantsoog (Den Helder), flooding parts of the north of Holland, Frisia and Groningen.
• 4 December: in the present Spain, Alfonso X el Sabio, who in this year was Prince of Castile, conquers Alicante, who at that time was inhabited by the Arabs and his fortress receives the name "Santa Barbara" for being the feast of the day.
• December 6th, two days after the takeover of the fortress, Prince Alfonso receives the keys of the city of Alicante so that San Nicolás de Bari will be appointed patron of the then Castilian villa.
• 22 December: in the current Spain, Fernando III enters the conquered Seville.
• 28 December: in the Netherlands, a cyclic tide (five weeks after the previous one) exceeds the coastal dunes and floods Holland, Frisia and Groningen.

• Jaime I grants a privilege for which the Community of Villages of Daroca is constituted.
• In Bologna, Italy, the Charter of Bologna (o) Boloniese Statutes), the oldest original Masonic document known.

Births

• White Artois, Navarre queen.
• Oton IV of Burgundy, French aristocrat.

Deaths

• Guyuk: Mongol leader, third khaghan of the empire.
• Subotai Ba'atur, strategist and lieutenant of King Genghis Khan.
• 4 January: Sancho II, Portuguese king (n. 1207).