Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

1285

Calendar year From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1285
Remove ads

Year 1285 (MCCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Quick facts
Thumb
Peter III overlooking the Panissar Pass
Remove ads

Events

By place

Europe

England

Levant

  • April 17 Mamluk forces under Sultan Qalawun (the Victorious) appear with specially built war engines before the Crusader fortress of Margat and begin a siege. For a month, the Mamluks can make no progress and the assaults on the stronghold are repelled. Qalawun then invites a delegation of Knights Hospitaller to come and see the damage his engineers have done to the 'impregnable' fortifications. They understood they have no real choice and are forced to surrender on May 25. The Hospitallers are allowed to retire with all their possessions, on horseback and fully armed. The rest of the garrison is promised a safe-conduct to Tortosa – while Qalawun establishes a Mamluk garrison which he uses as a basis for further campaigns against the Crusader States.[6]

Asia

By topic

Art and Culture

Markets

  • The first record is made of an emission of life annuities, by the city of Lübeck. It is the first instance of issue of public debt in Germany, and it confirms a trend of consolidation of local public debt over north-western Europe (see 1228).[8]
  • The County of Champagne is integrated into the kingdom of France; the region loses its haven characteristics for foreign merchants, and the Fairs of Troyes quickly dwindle into economic insignificance.[9]

Religion

Remove ads

Births

Remove ads

Deaths

Remove ads

References

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads