Major Events
- Apr 13 The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France captured
- Apr 15 Kublai is acclaimed the Great Khan by a Mongol Great Council
- Apr 15 Pope Innocent IV refuses Jews of Cordova, Spain their request to build a synagogue
- Jul 3 Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself
Who Died in 1250
- Feb 2 Eric XI of Sweden (1222–29 and 1234–50), last of the house of Eric, dies at 33 or 34
- Feb 8 Robert I of Artois, French crusader (b. 1216)
- Feb 8 William II Longespee, dies as a martyr at the battle of Al Mansurah, Egypt (7th Crusade)
- May 2 Toeransa, sultan of Egypt, murdered
- Aug 9 King Eric IV of Denmark (1241-1250), beheaded after being betrayed by his brother (b. 1216)
More 1250 Deaths
Gregory I
Gregory XIII
Julius II
Julius III
Leo X
Pius V