1291
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| Years: 1288 1289 1290 - 1291 - 1292 1293 1294 | |
| Decades: 1260s 1270s 1280s - 1290s - 1300s 1310s 1320s | |
| Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century 1291 state leaders | |
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Events
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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.
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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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Births
- February 8 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (died 1357)
- October 31 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer (died 1361)
- Pope Clement VI (died 1352)
- Theodore I of Montferrat (died 1338)
- Aimone of Savoy (died 1343)
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Deaths
- March 10 - Arghun, Persian ruler
- June 18 - King Alfonso III of Aragon (born 1265)
- June 26 - Eleanor of Provence, queen of Henry III of England
- July 15 - Rudolph I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1218)
- Hong Dagu, Korean military leader (born 1244)af:1291
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