1269

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political events

Bohemia's Ottakar II (the Great) takes Carinthia and Carniola from Hungary, whose Béla IV is too feeble to resist (see 1261; but see also1271; Diet of Regensburg, 1274).

The Pomeranian duke Mestwin II places his inherited lands under the protection of the margraves of Brandenburg in order to receive them back as a fief. Brandenburg will later claim hereditary rights to Pomerania and Pomerellen (see 1277).

exploration, colonization

Niccolo and Mateo Polo reach Acre, eastern outpost of Roman Christendom (see 1260; 1271).

transportation

The first toll roads appear in England.

religion

Louis IX orders French Jews to "wear the figure of a wheel cut out of purple Woolen Cloth, sewed on the upper Part of their Garments on the Breast, and between the Shoulders" (see 1252; 1306; Fourth Lateran Council, 1215).

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Physics

Epistola Petri Peregrini de Maricourt ad Syerum de Foucaucourt, militem, de magnete ("letter on the magnet of Peter the Pilgrim of Maricourt to Sygerus of Foucaucourt, soldier") by French scholar Petrus de Maricourt (Petrus Peregrinus) [b. c. 1240, d. c. 1270-90] is the first Western account of the forces between the poles of a magnet and of a compass dial. See also 1190 Transportation; 1600 Earth science.

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