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• February 18 – Battle of Rakvere: The Livonian Order is defeated by Dovmont of Pskov.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tRX0DQAAQBAJ&q=1268+battle+of+rakvere&pg=PA129|title=The Battle of Kulikovo Refought: "The First National Feat"|last=Parppei|first=Kati M. J.|publisher=BRILL|year=2017|isbn=9789004337947|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=129|language=en}}
• April 4 – A five-year Byzantine–Venetian peace treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos. It is ratified by the Doge of Venice Reniero Zeno on June 30.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rPPELPzrQwYC&q=1268+venetia+byzantine+peace+treaty&pg=PA441|title=History of the Byzantine Empire, from DCCXVI to MLVII|last=Finlay|first=George|publisher=W. Blackwood and Sons|year=1854|location=Edinburgh and London|pages=441|language=en}}
• August 23 – Battle of Tagliacozzo: The army of Charles of Anjou defeats the Ghibellines supporters of Conradin of Hohenstaufen, marking the fall of the Hohenstaufen Family from the Imperial and Sicilian thrones, and leading to the new chapter of Angevin domination in Southern Italy.{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E2CTAgAAQBAJ&q=1268+battle+of+tagliacozzo&pg=PT1098|title=Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia|last=Small|first=Carola M.|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|isbn=9781135948801|editor-last=Kleinhenz|editor-first=Christopher|location=New York and London|pages=1068|language=en|chapter=Battle of Tagliacozzo}}
• October 29 – Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen Dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed, along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden, by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Roman Catholic Church.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h5_tSnygvbIC&q=1268+conradin&pg=PA286|title=A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East [6 volumes]: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East|last=Tucker|first=Spencer C.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2010|isbn=9781851096725|location=Santa Barbara, CA, Denver, CO and Oxford|pages=286|language=en}}
• King Stephen V of Hungary launches a war against Bulgaria.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LvVbRrH1QBgC&q=1268+stephen+V+hungary+bulgaria&pg=PA180|title=The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest|last1=Fine|first1=John V. A.|last2=Fine|first2=John Van Antwerp|publisher=University of Michigan Press|year=1994|isbn=9780472082605|location=Ann Arbor, MI|pages=180|language=en|orig-year=1987}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S9nzDQAAQBAJ&q=1268+stephen+V+hungary+bulgaria&pg=PA255|title=The Asanids: The Political and Military History of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1280)|last=Madgearu|first=Alexandru|publisher=BRILL|year=2016|isbn=9789004333192|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=255|language=en}}
• The County of Wernigerode becomes a vassal state of the Margrave of Brandenburg.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QmdYAAAAcAAJ&q=1268+Wernigerode+Brandenburg&pg=PA13|title=Versuch einer Territorialgeschichte des preußischen Staates, oder kurze Darstellung des Wachsthums der Besitzungen des Hauses Brandenburg seit dem zwölften Jahrhundert. Mit einer illumin. Karte|last=Möller|first=Arnold Wilhelm|publisher=Schulz u. Wundermann|year=1822|location=Hamm und Münster|pages=13–14|language=de}}
• New election procedures for the election of the doge are established in Venice, in order to reduce the influence of powerful individual families and possibly to prevent the popular Lorenzo Tiepolo from becoming elected.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=skmMs7TGPZIC&q=1268+electing+doge+venice&pg=PA219|title=The Towns of Italy in the Later Middle Ages|last=Dean|first=Trevor|publisher=Manchester University Press|year=2000|isbn=9780719052040|location=Manchester and New York|pages=219|language=en}}
• Pope Clement IV dies; the following papal election fails to choose a new pope for almost three years, precipitating the later creation of stringent rules governing the electoral procedures.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Gm79HuBY0cC&q=1268+Pope+clement+IV+died&pg=PA106|title=The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571: The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries|last=Setton|first=Kenneth Meyer|publisher=American Philosophical Society|year=1976|isbn=9780871691149|series=Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society|volume=I: The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries|location=Philadelphia, PA|pages=106|language=en}}

• Nicola Pisano completes the famous octagonal Gothic-style pulpit, at the Duomo di Siena.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fvf5ybzFBmIC&q=1268+nicola+pisano+Siena&pg=PA342|title=The A to Z of Renaissance Art|last=Zirpolo|first=Lilian H.|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2009|isbn=9780810870437|location=Lanham, Toronto, Plymouth, UK|pages=342–343|language=en}}
• The carnival in Venice is first recorded.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F2w2k8sMDCoC&q=1268+carnival+in+venice&pg=PA269|title=Venice: The Hinge of Europe, 1081-1797|last=McNeill|first=William H.|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=2009|isbn=9780226561547|location=Chicago and London|pages=269|language=en|orig-year=1974}}
• In France, the use of hops as the exclusive flavoring agent used in the manufacture of beer is made compulsory.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ga4MYyZq-RMC&q=1268+france+hops+in+beer&pg=PA464|title=The Oxford Companion to Beer|last=Oliver|first=Garrett|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|year=2012|isbn=9780195367133|location=Oxford and New York|pages=464|language=en}}
• The town of Guta is founded (currently Kolárovo, Slovakia).{{Cite web|url=https://www.fotw.info/flags/sk-kolar.html|title=Kolárovo city, Slovakia|website=fotw.info|access-date=2019-04-17}}{{Better source needed|date=April 2019}}

• May 18 – Battle of Antioch: The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars; his destruction of the city of Antioch is so great, as to permanently negate the city's importance.{{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}}
• The Battle of Xiangyang, a 6-year battle between the Chinese Song dynasty and the Mongol forces of Kublai Khan, begins in what is today Hubei.{{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}}
• 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 Mongols attempt to invade in 1274.{{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}}
• An 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.Walford, Cornelius (1879) The famines of the world: past and present London, page 55, {{OCLC|38724391}}Lomnitz, Cinna (1974) Global Tectonics and Earthquake Risk Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co., Amsterdam, {{ISBN|0-444-41076-7}}{{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}}
• The Tibetan 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 his empire.{{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}}

• April/June – Philip IV of France (d. 1314){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FXllDwAAQBAJ&q=1268+philip+IV+france&pg=RA1-PA326|title=Encyclopedia of World History|last=Delph|first=Ronald K.|publisher=Infobase Publishing|year=2007|isbn=978-0-8160-6386-4|editor-last=Ackermann|editor-first=Marsha E.|series=Facts on File Library of World History|pages=326|language=en|editor-last2=Schroeder|editor-first2=Michael J.|editor-last3=Terry|editor-first3=Janice J.|editor-last4=Upshur|editor-first4=Jiu-Hwa Lo|editor-last5=Whitters|editor-first5=Mark F.}}
• Saint Clare of Montefalco (d. 1308){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hL22AgAAQBAJ&q=1268+Clare+of+montefalco&pg=PA146|title=Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia|last=Renna|first=Thomas|publisher=Routledge|year=2006|isbn=9781135459604|editor-last=Schaus|editor-first=Margaret C.|location=New York and London|pages=146|language=en}}
• Emperor Duanzong of China (d. 1278){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2UAlDwAAQBAJ&q=1268+Duanzong&pg=PA634|title=Encyclopedia of Chinese History|last=Hu|first=Wen|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2017|isbn=9781317817161|editor-last=Dillon|editor-first=Michael|location=London and New York|pages=634–635|language=en}}
• Mahaut, Countess of Artois (d. 1327){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wAKjBQAAQBAJ&q=1268+Mahaut+artois&pg=PA155|title=Translating Resurrection: The Debate between William Tyndale and George Joye in Its Historical and Theological Context|last=Juhász|first=Gergely M.|publisher=BRILL|year=2014|isbn=9789004259522|series=Studies in the History of Christian Traditions|volume=165|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=155|language=en}}
• Vedanta Desika, Indian Hindu poet and philosopher{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=edMjFemj7y8C&q=1268+Vedanta+Desika&pg=PA162|title=Ultimate Realities: A Volume in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project|last=Neville|first=Robert C.|publisher=State University of New York Press|year=2001|isbn=9780791447758|location=Albany, New York|pages=162|language=en}}

• May 15 – Peter II, Count of Savoy (b. 1203){{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_HNFPAAAAMAAJ|quote=1268 peter savoy.|title=Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge|last=Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge|publisher=Charles Knight|year=1841|location=London|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_HNFPAAAAMAAJ/page/n443 439]|language=en}}
• July 7 – Reniero Zeno, Doge of Venice{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s903AAAAcAAJ&q=1268+reniero+zeno&pg=PP8|title=History of the Venetian Republic: Her Rise, Her Greatness, and Her Civilization|last=Hazlitt|first=William Carew|publisher=Smith, Elder & Co|year=1860|volume=II|location=London|pages=255|language=en}}
• August 11 – Agnes of Faucigny, Dame ruler of Faucigny, countess consort of Savoy{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qF19BgAAQBAJ&q=1268+Agnes+of+Faucigny&pg=PA374|title=The Eagles of Savoy: The House of Savoy in Thirteenth-Century Europe|last=Cox|first=Eugene L.|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2015|isbn=9781400867912|location=Princeton, New Jersey|pages=374|language=en|orig-year=1974}}
• October 29
• Conradin, Duke of Swabia (executed) (b. 1252){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PwPLkQVZ1tsC&q=1268+conradin&pg=PA43|title=A Thousand Years in Sicily: From the Arabs to the Bourbons|last=Quatriglio|first=Giuseppe|publisher=Legas / Gaetano Cipolla|year=2005|isbn=9780921252177|edition= Third|location=Mineola, NY and Ottawa|pages=43|language=en|orig-year=1985}}
• Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (executed) (b. 1249){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fvk6DQAAQBAJ&q=1268+frederick+baden&pg=PA17|title=The Legislative History of the International Criminal Court|last1=Bassiouni|first1=M. Cherif|last2=Schabas|first2=William A.|publisher=BRILL|year=2016|isbn=9789004322097|edition= Second Revised and Expanded |volume=I|location=Leiden and Boston|pages=17|language=en}}
• November 29 – Pope Clement IV
• December 9 – Vaišvilkas, Prince of Black Ruthenia{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L9X3CwAAQBAJ&q=1268+Vai%C5%A1elga&pg=PA58|title=The Lithuanian Millennium: History, Art and Culture|last1=Janonienė|first1=Rūta|last2=Račiūnaitė|first2=Tojana|last3=Iršėnas|first3=Marius|last4=Butrimas|first4=Adomas|publisher=Vilnius Academy of Arts Press|year=2015|isbn=9786094470974|location=Vilnius, Lithuania|pages=58|language=en}}
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• Barral of Baux, Grand Justiciar of Sicily{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nfcmAAAAMAAJ&q=1268+Barral+of+Baux|title=The Poems of the Troubadour, Raimbaut de Vaqueiras|publisher=Mouton|year=1964|editor-last=Linskill|editor-first=Richard|location=The Hague, Netherlands|pages=85|language=en}}
• Henry de Bracton, English jurist{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CTw0WNs9x4MC&q=1268+henry+de+bracton|title=Bracton's Note Book: A Collection of Cases Decided in the King's Courts During the Reign of Henry the Third|last=Bracton|first=Henry de|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2010|isbn=9781108010290|editor-last=Maitland|editor-first=William Frederick|location=Cambridge and New York|pages=19–20|language=en}}

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