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==== Cities and Towns ====
* [[August 25]] &ndash; The Dutch city of [[Ommen]] receives [[City rights in the Low Countries|city rights]] and [[Defensive wall|fortification rights]] from [[Otto III van Holland|Otto III]], archbishop of [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht|Utrecht]], after the town has been pillaged by a local robber baron.

==== Religion ====
* [[April 26]] &ndash; The [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] chapel [[Sainte-Chapelle]] (or '''Holy Chapel''') is completed and consecrated in Paris. Louis IX moves the relics of the [[True Cross]] and [[Holy Lance]] to the chapel with great ceremony.
* [[August 15]] &ndash; The [[Cornerstone|foundation stone]] of [[Cologne Cathedral]] is laid by Archbishop [[Konrad von Hochstaden]], after the older cathedral is burned down on [[April 30]] (construction is completed in [[1880]]).
* Pope [[Pope Innocent IV|Innocent IV]] grants the Croatians of southern [[Dalmatia]] permission to use their own language and script in the [[Roman Rite]] liturgy (see [[Glagolitic script|Glagolitic alphabet]]).
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