1269

1269 (MCCLXIX) was a common year beginning on a Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Blair Castle.

Maximum extension of the Almohade Empire, to 1200.

Cecco d'Ascoli.

Events

Europe

• June 19: King Louis IX of France imposes a fine of ten pounds of silver on every Jew who does not carry the yellow identifier in public.
• King Otakar II of Bohemia inherits part of Carinthia and Carniola, becoming the most powerful prince of the Holy Roman German Empire. By not having at the time emperor, Otakar becomes one of the most powerful men in all of Europe.
• Peter Peregrinus de Maricourt writes the first existing treaty for the properties of magnets.
• It starts in Perthshire (Scotland) the construction of Blair Castle.

Africa

• End of the Almohad Empire, which came to cover North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, after the murder in Marrakesh of the last caliph of the dynasty, Idris II.
• The benimerines conquer Morocco, after the fall of the almohads.

Asian

• The alphabet of 'Phags-pa becomes the official writing system of the Mongol Empire.
• The Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch returns to Antioch after an exile of 171 years, during which he was replaced by the Latin Patriarch of Antioch.
• The Mamluks take Mecca.

Births

• Cecco d'Ascoli, poet, doctor, astronomer, master and Italian philosopher (f. 1327)
• Philip de Artois, Lord of Conches, Nanocourt and Damfront (f. 1298).
• Huang Gongwang, Chinese painter (f. 1354).

Deaths

• Ponce IV of Ampurias, Count of Ampurias (n. 1205).
• Oberto Pallavicino, Italian noble (n. 1197).
• Saionji Saneuji, Japanese poet (n. 1194).