Editing 1268 (section)

=== By place ===
==== Asia ====
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Siege of Antioch (1268)|Battle of Antioch]]: The [[Principality of Antioch]], a [[crusader states|crusader state]], falls to the [[Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)|Mamluk]] Sultan [[Baibars]]; his destruction of the city of [[Antioch]] is so great, as to permanently negate the city's importance.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3FRsBgAAQBAJ&q=1268+Battle+of+Antioch&pg=PA185|title=The Routledge Companion to Medieval Warfare|last=Bradbury|first=Jim|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|isbn=9781134598472|location=London and New York|pages=185|language=en}}</ref>
* The [[Battle of Xiangyang]], a 6-year battle between the Chinese [[Song dynasty]] and the [[Mongol Empire|Mongol]] forces of [[Kublai Khan]], begins in what is today [[Hubei]].<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eWD4xmLYyXIC&q=1268+Battle+of+Xiangyang&pg=PA141|title=Debating War in Chinese History|last=Curtis Wright|first=David|publisher=BRILL|year=2013|isbn=9789004244795|editor-last=Lorge|editor-first=Peter A.|location=Leiden and Boston|pages=141|language=en|chapter=Debates in the Field During Bayan's Campaigns Against Southern Song China, 1274 - 1276}}</ref>
* [[Kublai Khan]] sends an emissary to the [[Kamakura shogunate]] of Japan, demanding an acknowledgment of suzerainty and payment of [[tribute]]; the Japanese refuse, starting a diplomatic back-and-forth, lasting until the [[Mongol Empire|Mongols]] attempt to invade in [[1274]].<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aWxN1Fq_ueoC&q=1268+Kublai+Khan+Japan&pg=PA280|title=Sources of Japanese Tradition|last1=Bary|first1=Wm. Theodore de|last2=Gluck|first2=Carol|last3=Tiedemann|first3=Arthur|last4=Varley|first4=Paul|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=2002|isbn=9780231518055|edition=  Second: From Earliest Times to 1600|location=New York and Chichester, UK|pages=280|language=en|chapter=The Mongol Invasion of Japan}}</ref>
* An [[1268 Cilicia earthquake|earthquake in Cilicia]] occurs in 1268 northeast of the city of [[Adana]]. Over 60,000 people perished in the [[Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia]] in southern Asia Minor.<ref>Walford, Cornelius (1879) ''The famines of the world: past and present'' London, page 55, {{OCLC|38724391}}</ref><ref>Lomnitz, Cinna (1974) ''Global Tectonics and Earthquake Risk'' Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co., Amsterdam, {{ISBN|0-444-41076-7}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b1sXfJCiCHQC&q=1268+Cilicia+earthquake&pg=PA292|title=Encyclopedia of Earthquakes and Volcanoes|last1=Gates|first1=Alexander E.|last2=Ritchie|first2=David|publisher=Infobase Publishing|year=2007|isbn=9780816072705|edition=  Third|location=New York|pages=292|language=en|orig-year=1994}}</ref>
* The [[Tibet]]an monk [[Drogön Chögyal Phagpa]] of the [[Sakya]] School completes the [['Phags-pa script]], which was sponsored by [[Kublai Khan]] as a new writing system in [[Mongol Empire|his empire]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lGyrymfDdI0C&q=1268+mongol+script&pg=PA224|title=One Hundred Thousand Moons: An Advanced Political History of Tibet|last=Shakabpa|first=Tsepon Wangchuk Deden|publisher=BRILL|year=2010|isbn=9789004177321|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=224|language=en}}</ref>
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