1242

This page relates to the year 1242 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Töregene becomes regent of the Mongolian empire (1242 - 1246).
Reign of Kara Hülegü, khan of Djaghataï (fine in 1246). Grandson of Djaghataï, it reigns under the supervision of his mother Ebuskune.

the general Baidju takes the command of the Mongolian troops in Iran based in the area of low the Koura (fine in 1256).

With died of Ögödei, the governor of the Khorasan Körguz is delivered by the military commanders to his adversary Kara Hülegü which makes it put at death. The regent Töregene load then Arghun Agha to manage the Khorasan and the Iraq. Man cultivated and broken with the businesses of the State, it disappoints the hopes of the Mongolian lords by continuing the policy of Körguz, protecting the Iranian population against violences from the Mongols and driving back feudal anarchy. He obtains the confidence of large the khans by regularly sending tributes to Karakorum.

Mars: Mongolian raid in Croatia. Before guard of Batu reached Spalatto and Cattaro on the Adriatic . With the advertisement of died of Ögödei (1241), Batu and its troops ebb towards the East to take part in the Quriltay organized for the election of its successor. Europe is saved.
Batu crosses the Bulgaria until the Black Sea, then the Moldavie during the winter 1242 - 1243, and returns in its campings installed along the court inferior of the the Volga.

April 5th: Victoire of the Russian prince Alexandre Nevski on the teutonic Knights, at the time of the Battle of the lake Peïpous, or lake of Tchoudes, in Livonie, then cold (massacre of the ices). This battle marks a crushing argument to the Germanic expansion towards the East, while it contributes to the birth of Russia, under Muscovite domination.

Rebellion of Raymond VII of Toulouse.
May 28th: Massacre of four inquisiteurs with Avignonet. Raymond of Toulouse is excommunicated.
June 6th: The Talmud is burned in Place of Strike to Paris.
feudal Revolt of Isabelle of Angouleme and Henri III, count of the Walk and king d' Angleterre against Louis IX repressed with Taillebourg (July 21st) and with Holy (July 23rd). Henri III cannot take again the French strongholds lost by his father.

Appearance in the Mediterranean of the Rudder of stern post. First illustrated representation of the rudder of stern post.
the English monk Roger Bacon describes a formula to manufacture Gunpowder.

July 2nd: Beatrice of England, girl of the king Henri III of England, future duchess of Brittany after her marriage with the duke Jean II of Brittany.

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