1262

Events

  • King Mindaugas of Lithuania renounces Christianity, returning to his pagan roots and reverting to Grand Duke of Lithuania.
  • The Icelandic Commonwealth enters into a treaty establishing a union with Norway and acknowledges Norwegian King Haakon IV as its ruler.
  • Strasbourg becomes an Imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire.
  • King Henry III of England obtains a papal bull releasing him from the Provisions of Oxford, preceding the Second Barons' War, a civil war started in 1263.
  • King Mengrai of the Lannathai kingdom in present-day Thailand founds the city of Chiang Rai as the kingdom's first capital.
  • Adam de la Halle writes the first operetta, "Le Jeu de la Feuillee".
  • Richard of Chichester is canonized as a saint; he is best known for writing the prayer later adapted into the song Day by Day in the musical Godspell.

Births

  • July 2Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (died 1312)
  • Ladislaus IV of Hungary (died 1290)
  • Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester (died 1326)

Deaths

  • July 15Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (born 1222)
  • Aegidius of Assisi, companion of Saint Francis of Assisi
  • Shinran Shonin, Japanese founder of the Jodo Shinshu branch of Pure Land Buddhism
  • Matilda II of Boulogne, Queen of Portugal, spouse of King Afonso III of Portugal (born 1202)
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