1269

1269 (MCCLXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1269th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 269th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 13th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1260s decade. As of the start of 1269, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1230s  1240s  1250s  – 1260s –  1270s  1280s  1290s
Years:	1266 1267 1268 – 1269 – 1270 1271 1272

1269 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1269 MCCLXIX
Ab urbe condita	2022
Armenian calendar	718 ԹՎ ՉԺԸ
Assyrian calendar	6019
Balinese saka calendar	1190–1191
Bengali calendar	676
Berber calendar	2219
English Regnal year	53 Hen. 3 – 54 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1813
Burmese calendar	631
Byzantine calendar	6777–6778
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3965 or 3905     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3966 or 3906
Coptic calendar	985–986
Discordian calendar	2435
Ethiopian calendar	1261–1262
Hebrew calendar	5029–5030
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1325–1326
- Shaka Samvat	1190–1191
- Kali Yuga	4369–4370
Holocene calendar	11269
Igbo calendar	269–270
Iranian calendar	647–648
Islamic calendar	667–668
Japanese calendar	Bun'ei 6 (文永６年)
Javanese calendar	1179–1180
Julian calendar	1269 MCCLXIX
Korean calendar	3602
Minguo calendar	643 before ROC 民前643年
Nanakshahi calendar	−199
Thai solar calendar	1811–1812
Tibetan calendar	阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 1395 or 1014 or 242     — to — 阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 1396 or 1015 or 243

Events

Europe

• June 19 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
• Pélerin de Maricourt first describes magnetic poles and remarks on the nonexistence of isolated magnetic poles.
• King Otakar II of Bohemia inherits Carinthia and part of Carniola, making him the most powerful prince within the Holy Roman Empire; the empire lacking an emperor during the ongoing great interregnum, Otakar II was one of the most powerful men in Europe.
• The construction of Blair Castle in Scotland is begun by John Comyn.

Africa

• The Almohad dynasty of caliphs (not universally accepted) that once ruled most of North Africa and Al-Andalus (Moorish Spain) is extinguished when Idris II is murdered in the dynasty's last remaining possession, Marrakesh.
• The Berber Marinid completes the conquest of Morocco, replacing the Almohad dynasty which it defeated in Marrakesh.

Asia

• The Eastern Orthodox Patriarchy of Antioch returns to Antioch after a 171-year exile, during which it had been replaced by the Latin Patriarch of Antioch.

Births

• Philip of Artois
• Huang Gongwang, Chinese painter (died 1354)
• Vedantadesika, Hindu poet and philosopher

Deaths

• John de Balliol, father of John Balliol, King of Scotland
• Svarn, King of Galicia