1250

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1220s  1230s  1240s  – 1250s –  1260s  1270s  1280s
Years:	1247 1248 1249 – 1250 – 1251 1252 1253

1250 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1250 MCCL
Ab urbe condita	2003
Armenian calendar	699 ԹՎ ՈՂԹ
Assyrian calendar	6000
Balinese saka calendar	1171–1172
Bengali calendar	657
Berber calendar	2200
English Regnal year	34 Hen. 3 – 35 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1794
Burmese calendar	612
Byzantine calendar	6758–6759
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3946 or 3886     — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 3947 or 3887
Coptic calendar	966–967
Discordian calendar	2416
Ethiopian calendar	1242–1243
Hebrew calendar	5010–5011
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1306–1307
- Shaka Samvat	1171–1172
- Kali Yuga	4350–4351
Holocene calendar	11250
Igbo calendar	250–251
Iranian calendar	628–629
Islamic calendar	647–648
Japanese calendar	Kenchō 2 (建長２年)
Javanese calendar	1159–1160
Julian calendar	1250 MCCL
Korean calendar	3583
Minguo calendar	662 before ROC 民前662年
Nanakshahi calendar	−218
Thai solar calendar	1792–1793
Tibetan calendar	阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 1376 or 995 or 223     — to — 阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 1377 or 996 or 224

1250 (MCCL) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1250th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 250th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 13th century, and the 1st year of the 1250s decade. As of the start of 1250, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

Europe

• December 13 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, dies
• King Afonso III of Portugal captures the Algarve from the Moors.
• Valdemar, becomes King of Sweden.
• University of Valladolid is founded in Spain.
• The Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy is changes from a pontoon bridge to a permanent, raised wooden bridge.
• Vincent of Beauvais completes his encyclopedic work, The Greater Mirror.
• The Parlement law courts of ancien régime France are created.
• A sickness breaks out in the city Naples (In what is now Italy), called the Naple's Plague

Africa

• July 3 – Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt at the Seventh Crusade.
• The Bahri dynasty of Mamluks seize power in Egypt.
• The Walayta state is founded in present-day Ethiopia (see Rulers of Walayta)

Births

• Pietro d'Abano, Italian physician, philosopher and astrologer (died 1316)
• Guido Cavalcanti, Italian poet (died 1300)
• Dmitry of Pereslavl, Grand-duke of Vladimir-Suzdal (d. 1294)
• Pierre Dubois, French publicist (approximate date; died c. 1312)
• Moses de Leon, compiler of the Zohar (approximate date; died 1305)
• Giovanni Pisano, Italian sculptor (approximate date; died 1314)

Deaths

• February 2 – King Eric XI of Sweden
• February 8 – Robert I of Artois, French crusader (killed in battle) (born 1216)
• February 8 – William II Longespee, English crusader
• June 18 – Teresa of Portugal
• August 9 – King Eric IV of Denmark (born 1216)
• October 4 – Herman VI, Margrave of Baden
• December 13 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1194)
• Leonardo of Pisa, Italian mathematician
• Matej Ninoslav, Croatian ban

Eras and population estimates

The population of the world in 1250 was around 400 to 416 million people.