{"slug": "bela-iv-of-hungary", "label": "Béla IV of Hungary", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_IV_of_Hungary", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152370", "qid": "Q152370", "description": "King of Hungary (1206-1270)", "entries": 12, "years": 11, "span": [1206, 1270], "span_label": ["1206 CE", "1270 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "kingdom-of-hungary-10001301", "label": "Kingdom of Hungary (1000–1301)", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "transylvania", "label": "Transylvania", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "duchy-of-styria", "label": "Duchy of Styria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "christianity", "label": "Christianity", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "danube", "label": "Danube", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cumans", "label": "Cumans", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "march", "label": "March", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "romania", "label": "Romania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "knights-hospitaller", "label": "Knights Hospitaller", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "wallachia", "label": "Wallachia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "croatia", "label": "Croatia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "zagreb", "label": "Zagreb", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1206, "year_label": "1206 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Béla IV, king of Hungary and Croatia (d. 1270)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267066460#Births", "title": "1206", "revid": 1267066460, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1239, "year_label": "1239 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Autumn – King Béla IV of Hungary allows some 40,000 Cumans, pagan nomads fleeing the Mongols, to settle in Hungary between the rivers Danube and Theiss, after their leader, Köten, has promised to convert to Christianity.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368650554#Europe", "title": "1239", "revid": 1368650554, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1241, "year_label": "1241 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 11", "text": "April 11 – Battle of Mohi: Batu Khan and Subutai defeat Béla IV of Hungary. The battle is the last major event in the Mongol Invasion of Europe.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362486166#Events", "title": "1241", "revid": 1362486166, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1242, "year_label": "1242 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 16", "text": "November 16 – King Béla IV issues the Golden Bull to the inhabitants of Gradec (modern-day Zagreb) and Samobor in Croatia. By this golden bull, Béla proclaimes Gradec a royal free city.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360512210#Europe", "title": "1242", "revid": 1360512210, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1246, "year_label": "1246 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 15", "text": "June 15 – Battle of the Leitha River: Hungarian forces, under King Béla IV, defeat Duke Frederick II (the Quarrelsome) at the banks of the Leitha River. Frederick is killed (leaving no male heirs); the House of Babenberg is dissolved. Emperor Frederick II places the fiefs of Austria and Styria under his rule. This ends the Austrian claims to the western counties of Hungary.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356775338#Europe", "title": "1246", "revid": 1356775338, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1247, "year_label": "1247 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 2", "text": "July 2 – King Béla IV grants territories to the Knights Hospitaller in the Banate of Severin and Hungarian Cumania (according to a document called the Diploma of the Joannites), makes an early mention of Litovoi and other Vlach/Romanian local rulers, in Wallachia and Transylvania.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362480331#Europe", "title": "1247", "revid": 1362480331, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1255, "year_label": "1255 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The town of Banská Bystrica (located in central Slovakia) is granted municipal privileges by King Béla IV of Hungary.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1315790496#City_and_Towns", "title": "1255", "revid": 1315790496, "section": "Events › By topic › City and Towns"}}, {"year": 1260, "year_label": "1260 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Croatia is divided into two sub-regions ruled by ban: the Croatian region on the south and Slavonian region on the north, by King Béla IV of Hungary.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366894029#Europe", "title": "1260", "revid": 1366894029, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1260, "year_label": "1260 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 12", "text": "July 12 – Battle of Kressenbrunn: King Ottokar II of Bohemia captures Styria from King Béla IV of Hungary.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366894029#Europe", "title": "1260", "revid": 1366894029, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1264, "year_label": "1264 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 10", "text": "December 10 – Hungarian Civil War, a dynastic conflict, erupts between King Béla IV and his son, Duke Stephen. Hungarian forces under Ladislaus II Kán invades Stephen's realm and push forward unhindered penetrating the valley of the Mureș River in the southern part of Transylvania. Stephen's army halts Ladislaus' advance at the Fortress of Deva (modern Romania).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1334426011#Europe", "title": "1264", "revid": 1334426011, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1265, "year_label": "1265 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March", "text": "March – End of the Hungarian Civil War (1264–1265) – Battle of Isaszeg: Younger King Stephen decisively defeats his father's army.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267064844#Europe", "title": "1265", "revid": 1267064844, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1270, "year_label": "1270 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 3", "text": "May 3 – Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362480805#Deaths", "title": "1270", "revid": 1362480805, "section": "Deaths"}}]}