1246

This article is about the year 1246.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1210s  1220s  1230s  – 1240s –  1250s  1260s  1270s
Years:	1243 1244 1245 – 1246 – 1247 1248 1249

1246 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1246 in poetry

1246 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1246 MCCXLVI
Ab urbe condita	1999
Armenian calendar	695 ԹՎ ՈՂԵ
Assyrian calendar	5996
Bengali calendar	653
Berber calendar	2196
English Regnal year	30 Hen. 3 – 31 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1790
Burmese calendar	608
Byzantine calendar	6754–6755
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3942 or 3882     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3943 or 3883
Coptic calendar	962–963
Discordian calendar	2412
Ethiopian calendar	1238–1239
Hebrew calendar	5006–5007
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1302–1303
- Shaka Samvat	1168–1169
- Kali Yuga	4347–4348
Holocene calendar	11246
Igbo calendar	246–247
Iranian calendar	624–625
Islamic calendar	643–644
Japanese calendar	Kangen 4 (寛元４年)
Julian calendar	1246 MCCXLVI
Korean calendar	3579
Minguo calendar	666 before ROC 民前666年
Thai solar calendar	1788–1789

Year 1246 (MCCXLVI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Americas

• The Mexicans settle Chapultepec, a former Toltec stronghold.

Asia

• Emperor Go-Fukakusa succeeds Emperor Go-Saga on the throne of Japan.
• Güyük Khan is enthroned as the 3rd Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (an event also witnessed by a papal mission under Giovanni da Pian del Carpine) at Karakorum.

Europe

• With the death of Duke Frederick the Quarrelsome, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria.
• Spain: After two unsuccessful sieges in 1225 and 1230, the Castillans manage to take the city of Jaén from the Andalucians at the Siege of Jaen.

By topic

Arts

• The Gothic chapel of Sainte-Chapelle is built.
• Robert Grosseteste translates Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics from Greek into Latin, which marks the true start of the rediscovery of the philosopher by Medieval Europe.

Nature

• The perihelion of the Earth's orbit coincided with the December solstice.

Religion

• Beaulieu Abbey is dedicated.

Births

• September 14 – John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel (d. 1272)

Deaths

• February 25 – Dafydd ap Llywelyn, prince of Wales
• May 31 – Isabella of Angoulême, queen of John of England
• June – Richard Fitz Roy, illegitimate son of John of England
• June 15 – Duke Frederick II of Austria (b. 1219)
• September 20 – Mikhail of Chernigov, Prince of Kiev
• September 30 – Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1190)
• November 8 – Berenguela of Castile, queen of Castile and León (b. 1196)
• date unknown
  • Ednyfed Fychan, seneschal of Gwynedd
  • Sayyid Muhammad Al-Makki, ancestor of the Bukkuri Sayyids (b. 1145)