
Events 1250s – Baghdad captured by Mongols
1258 Baghdad captured by the Mongols Events The world population is estimated at between 400 and 416 million individuals. World climate transitions from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age. The consequences of the volcanic 1257 Samalas eruption in Indonesia include the following anecdotal accounts: very dry fog in France; lunar eclipses in England; severe winter in Europe; a harsh spring in Iceland; famine in England, Germany, France and Italy; and pestilence in London, parts of France, Austria, Iraq, Syria, and southeast Turkey 1258: Baghdad captured and destroyed by the Mongols, effective conclusion of the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad. Music Medieval music: The Notre Dame school of polyphony ends. Literature The earliest known manuscript of The Proverbs of Alfred, a collection of sayings of England‘s Alfred the Great, is […]