Shams-ud-Din Shah Mir, having defeated Kota Rani, Hindu queen regnant of Kashmir, in battle at Jayapur (modern Sumbal), asks her to marry him, but she commits suicide rather than do so; thus he takes over sole rule of Kashmir, beginning the MuslimShah Mir Dynasty.
All streets in the city of Florence are paved, the first European city in post-Roman times where this has happened.