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Year 1291 (MCCXCI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1291

Europe

Asia

  • May 18 - Mamluk Sultan of Egypt Khalil captures Acre, thus exterminating the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (the final Christian landholding remaining from the Crusades), and ending the Ninth Crusade and effectively all Crusades, by eliminating the possibility of further attacks on the Holy Land (see Siege of Acre (1291)).
  • The artificial Kunming Lake is constructed as a reservoir for Beijing in Yuan Dynasty China by famous engineer and astronomer Guo Shoujing.
  • Emperor Kameyama of Japan establishes the Zen Buddhist temple of Nanzenji in Kyoto.

    Births

  • February 8 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1357)
  • October 31 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer (d. 1361)
  • Pope Clement VI (d. 1352)
  • Theodore I of Montferrat (d. 1338)
  • Aimone of Savoy (d. 1343) » Also see .

    Deaths

  • March 10 - Arghun, Mongol ruler
  • June 18 - King Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265)
  • June 26 - Eleanor of Provence, queen of Henry III of England
  • July 15 - Rudolph I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1218)
  • Hong Dagu, Korean military leader (b. 1244)
  • Talabuga, khan of the Blue Horde » Also see .

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