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World History Timeline - 1240
In 1240, Aleksandr, prince of Novgorod, defeats Swedish forces on the banks of the Neva River. From now on, he will be known as Aleksandr Nevski.
Led by Sundiata Keita, Mali forces take over the Ghana Empire in Africa in 1240.
Pope Gregory IX dies in 1241.
Mercenaries hired by the Egyptian pasha Khwarazmi recapture Jerusalem in 1244. Although his success will inspire a Seventh Crusade, Jerusalem will remain under Egyptian control until 1517.
In 1247, Hungary's Bela IV establishes the city of Buda to replace the city of Pest, which had been destroyed in 1241 by the Mongols.
St. Mary of Bethlehem Hospital for the insane opens in England in 1247. Suggesting what the conditions of the hospital were like, the modern word bedlam is derived from its name.
In York, England, a tombstone identifies Robert, earl of Huntington, as Robin Hood. Robert died in December 1247.
Led by the King of France, Louis IX, the Seventh Crusade invades Egypt in 1248 and takes the city of Damietta.
The Muslim inhabitants of Seville flee to Grenada when a Christian army led by Ferdinand III of Castile takes the city in 1248.
In 1249, Count Willem II of the Netherlands builds a castle in The Hague, establishing the city as the seat of Dutch government.
Roger Bacon, a Franciscan friar, advocates making science part of the curriculum at Oxford University, maintaining that science complements, not opposes, religion.
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