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1291 - Events | | 1291 - Events: Encyclopedia II - 1291 - Events | |
1291 - Europe.
In the spring of this year, Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi set sail from Genoa with the goal of reaching India; they never return.
May 10 - Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King Edward I of England in mediating resolution of the succession crisis created by the death of King Alexander III of Scotland five years prior.
Early August - The Swiss Confederation is formed by Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden, the "three forest cantons. A purported enacting document, the Federal ...
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1291 - Events
1291 - Europe
- In the spring of this year, Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi set sail from Genoa with the goal of reaching India; they never return.
- May 10 - Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King Edward I of England in mediating resolution of the succession crisis created by the death of King Alexander III of Scotland five years prior.
- Early August - The Swiss Confederation is formed by Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden, the "three forest cantons. A purported enacting document, the Federal Charter of 1291, is now widely believed to be a forgery.
- Sancho IV of Castile captures Tarifa from the Moors.
- The Habsburgs acquire the Swiss city of Lucerne.
- Pope Nicholas IV confirms the independence of San Marino via papal bull.
- All glassmakers in Venice are forced to moved to the island of Murano in order to contain the risk of fire, thus establishing the glass industry there.
- Klenová castle is constructed in southern Bohemia as part of a frontier defense system.
1291 - Asia
- June 17 - 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)).
- Kaifeng is made capital of the Chinese Yuan Dynasty province of Henan.
- The artificial Kunming Lake is constructed as a reservoir for Beijing in Yuan Dynasty China by famous engineer and astronomer Guo Shoujing.
- Emperor Kameyama, emperor of Japan, establishes the Zen Buddhist temple of Nanzenji in Kyoto.
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