This page relates to the year 1255 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Africa

• Reign of Mansa Oulé, king of the Mali (until in 1270).

• Mansa Oulé organizes a system of great command entrusted to faithful generals. Peaceful and pious sovereign, it extends the kingdom of Mali. On the other hand, its successors Ouati, Khalifa and Aboubakari will maqueront of authority and will let reign anarchy in the Empire.
• Beginning of the development of the Islam in Mali (until in 1270).

Europe

France

• March 20th: Foundation by Alphonse of Poitiers, brother of Saint-Louis, become by its marriage in 1229 with Jeanne, girl of Raymond VII, Master of the county of Toulouse and the county of Resident of Agen, the country house of Montreal-of-Gers the.
• April 6th: Marriage of Isabelle, girl of Louis IX of France with Thibaud V of Champagne.
• May: Fall of Quéribus, last bastion of the Catharisme in the south of the France.

Russia

• the teutonic Chevaliers found a fortress which is at the origin of the town of Königsberg (today Kaliningrad, in Russia).
• the archbishop's palace of Rīga becomes the metropolis of the Prussia.
• With died of Batu to Saraï, Sartak, his/her son and designated successor, remains then at large the khan Möngke with Karakorum in the capacity as plenipotentiary. Möngke names it with the head of the oulous Kiptchak, but he dies abruptly and it is his/her son, Ulakchi, which are designated like khan Horde of Gold under the regency of Boraktchik, widow of Batu (fine in 1257).

Iceland

• In Iceland, the Althing admits the primacy of the divine law on the national laws.

Art & culture

• March 19th: The the University of Paris, then most prestigious of Europe, registers with its program the totality of works of Aristote.

• In Flanders, with the roundtable of Hesdin, regulation of the Tournament S.
• In Italy, judgment of Franciscains favorable to the ideas of Joachim de Flore.
• Treated heart of Albert Large the, attempt to return Aristote accessible to the clerks.
• Dominican the Jacques de Voragine writes “the Golden Legend”.

Births in 1255

Death in 1255

• Sundjata Keïta, Founder of the Empire of Mali, died with Niani.

• Batu, Khan of the Horde of Gold

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