Events Beginning of the Sicilian School Bernart Sicart de Maruèjols composed the sirventes "Ab greu cossire" about the effect of the Albigensian Crusade on Languedoc Peire Bremon Ricas Novas and Gui de Cavalhon compose a tenso together

Births Guido Guinizelli, born between 1230-1240 (died 1276), Italian poet and 'founder' of the Dolce Stil Novo Guiraut Riquier (died 1292), an Occitan troubadour

Deaths Janna (born unknown), Kannada Walther von der Vogelweide (born 1170), Middle High German lyric poet