1245
Year 1245 (MCCXLV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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| 1245 in poetry | 
| Gregorian calendar | 1245 MCCXLV  | 
| Ab urbe condita | 1998 | 
| Armenian calendar | 694 ԹՎ ՈՂԴ  | 
| Assyrian calendar | 5995 | 
| Balinese saka calendar | 1166–1167 | 
| Bengali calendar | 652 | 
| Berber calendar | 2195 | 
| English Regnal year | 29 Hen. 3 – 30 Hen. 3 | 
| Buddhist calendar | 1789 | 
| Burmese calendar | 607 | 
| Byzantine calendar | 6753–6754 | 
| Chinese calendar | 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 3941 or 3881 — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3942 or 3882  | 
| Coptic calendar | 961–962 | 
| Discordian calendar | 2411 | 
| Ethiopian calendar | 1237–1238 | 
| Hebrew calendar | 5005–5006 | 
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1301–1302 | 
| - Shaka Samvat | 1166–1167 | 
| - Kali Yuga | 4345–4346 | 
| Holocene calendar | 11245 | 
| Igbo calendar | 245–246 | 
| Iranian calendar | 623–624 | 
| Islamic calendar | 642–643 | 
| Japanese calendar | Kangen 3 (寛元3年)  | 
| Javanese calendar | 1154–1155 | 
| Julian calendar | 1245 MCCXLV  | 
| Korean calendar | 3578 | 
| Minguo calendar | 667 before ROC 民前667年  | 
| Nanakshahi calendar | −223 | 
| Thai solar calendar | 1787–1788 | 
| Tibetan calendar | 阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 1371 or 990 or 218 — to — 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1372 or 991 or 219  | 

Ferdinand III (the Saint) (r. 1217–1252)
Events
    
    
Europe
    
- Winter – Siege of Jaén: Castilian forces under King Ferdinand III (the Saint) besiege the Moorish-held city of Jaén. During the siege Moorish knights sally out and manage to capture a Castilian supply caravan. Meanwhile, Ferdinand tries to launch attacks on the various city gates, but all are ineffective.
 - In witness of the toll taken by war and fiscal pressure in the Kingdom of Castile, the region of Segovia is described this year as depopulated and sterile.[1]
 
England
    
- King Henry III starts the work of rebuilding Westminster Abbey, as a tribute to Edward the Confessor.
 
Levant
    
- April – Egyptian forces under As-Salih Ayyub besiege the city of Damascus. After six months, As-Salih Ismail, ruler of Damascus, surrenders to Ayyub in return for a vassal-principality, consisting of Baalbek and the Hauran. Ayyub is awarded the title of sultan by Caliph Al-Musta'sim in Baghdad.[2]
 
Religion
    
- February 21 – Thomas, bishop of Turku (modern Finland), is granted resignation by Pope Innocent IV. He admits to committing several felonies, such as torturing and forging a papal letter.
 - April 16 – Innocent IV sends Giovanni da Pian del Carpine (accompanied by Stephen of Bohemia) to the Mongol court at Karakorum, suggesting that the Mongols convert to Christianity.[3]
 - June 28 – First Council of Lyon: In a general church council held at Lyon, Innocent IV declares Emperor Frederick II excommunicated and deposed. He proclaims the Seventh Crusade.[4]
 
Births
    
- January 16 – Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III (d. 1296)
 - May 1 – Philip III (the Bold), king of France (d. 1285)
 - November 14 – Sang Sapurba, Indonesian ruler (d. 1316)
 - Antony Bek (or Beck), English bishop and patriarch (d. 1311)
 - Araniko (or Anige), Nepalese architect and painter (d. 1306)
 - Eric of Brandenburg, archbishop of Magdeburg (d. 1295)
 - Fujiwara no Saneko, Japanese empress consort (d. 1272)
 - Giovanna da Signa, Italian miracle worker and saint (d. 1307)
 - Kikuchi Takefusa, Japanese nobleman and samurai (d. 1285)
 - Kunigunda of Halych, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1285)
 - Ma Duanlin, Chinese encyclopaedist and politician (d. 1322)
 - Nichirō, Japanese Buddhist disciple and scholar (d. 1320)
 - Rinaldo da Concorezzo, Italian priest and archbishop (d. 1321)
 - Roger Bigod, English nobleman and Lord Marshal (d. 1306)
 - Thomas de Berkeley (the Wise), English nobleman (d. 1321)
 - Yahballaha III, patriarch of the Church of the East (d. 1317)
 - Ziemomysł of Kuyavia, Polish ruler of Bydgoszcz (d. 1287)
 
Deaths
    
- January 27 – Ralph of Maidstone, bishop of Hereford
 - January 28 – Giovanni Colonna, Italian cardinal (b. 1170)
 - February 8 – John of la Rochelle, French theologian (b. 1200)
 - February 15 – Baldwin de Redvers, English nobleman (b. 1217)
 - March 22 – Roger I of Fézensaguet, French nobleman (b. 1190)
 - July 22 – Kolbeinn ungi Arnórsson, Icelandic chieftain (b. 1208)
 - August 19 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Spanish nobleman (b. 1198)
 - August 21 – Alexander of Hales, English theologian (b. 1185)
 - November 27 – Walter Marshal, English nobleman (b. 1209)
 - December 4 – Christian of Oliva, bishop of Prussia (b. 1180)
 - Adam of Harcarse, Scottish Cistercian priest and abbot
 - Beatrice d'Este, queen consort of Hungary (b. 1215)
 - Cletus Bél, Hungarian prelate, bishop and chancellor
 - Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi, Syrian scholar and writer (b. 1173)
 - Fujiwara no Tadataka, Japanese regent and monk (b. 1163)
 - Guillaume le Vinier, French composer and poet (b. 1190)
 - Ibn al-Salah, Syrian scholar, imam and writer (b. 1181)
 - Isabel de Bolebec, English noblewoman and co-heiress
 - Rusudan of Georgia, queen consort of Georgia (b. 1194)
 
References
    
- Linehan, Peter (1999). "Chapter 21: Castile, Portugal and Navarre". In Abulafia, David (ed.). The New Cambridge Medieval History c.1198-c.1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 668–699 [670]. ISBN 0-521-36289-X.
 - Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol III: The Kingdom of Acre, pp. 190–191. ISBN 978-0241-29877-0.
 - Yule, Henry; Beazley, Charles Raymond (1911). "Carpini, Joannes de Piano". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 397–399.
 - Hywel Williams (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History, p. 141. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
 
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