1271
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Years: 1268 1269 1270 - 1271 - 1272 1273 1274 |
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Decades: 1240s 1250s 1260s - 1270s - 1280s 1290s 1300s |
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Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century |
1271 by topic | |
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Art and literature | |
1271 in poetry |
Gregorian calendar | 1271 MCCLXXI |
Ab urbe condita | 2024 |
Armenian calendar | 720 ԹՎ ՉԻ |
Bahá'í calendar | -573 – -572 |
Berber calendar | 2221 |
Buddhist calendar | 1815 |
Burmese calendar | 633 |
Byzantine calendar | 6779 – 6780 |
Chinese calendar | 庚午年十一月十九日 (3907/3967-11-19) — to —
辛未年十一月廿八日(3908/3968-11-28) |
Coptic calendar | 987 – 988 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1263 – 1264 |
Hebrew calendar | 5031 – 5032 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1326 – 1327 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1193 – 1194 |
- Kali Yuga | 4372 – 4373 |
Holocene calendar | 11271 |
Iranian calendar | 649 – 650 |
Islamic calendar | 669 – 670 |
Japanese calendar | |
Korean calendar | 3604 |
Thai solar calendar | 1814 |
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[edit] Events
[edit] Europe
- July 2 - Kings Otakar II of Bohemia and Stephen V of Hungary sign the first Peace of Pressburg, settling territorial claims following the failed invasion of Hungary by Otakar II.
- September 1 - Pope Gregory X succeeds Pope Clement IV as the 184th pope, as the compromise candidate between French and Italian cardinals, ending a 3-year conclave, the longest ever.
- The County of Toulouse is returned to the crown of France.
- Marco Polo departs from Venice with his father and uncle on his famous journey to Kublai Khan's China.
- The construction of Caerphilly Castle, the largest in Wales, is completed.
- Construction of the Belaya Vezha in Belarus is begun.
[edit] North Africa and the Middle East
- April 8 - Mamluk sultan Baibars continues his territorial expansion, capturing the strategically important castle Krak des Chevaliers from the Knights Hospitaller in present-day Syria.
- Mamluk sultan Baibars conducts an unsuccessful siege of the city of Tripoli, and also fails in an attempted naval invasion of Cyprus.
- Edward I of England and Charles of Anjou arrive in Acre, starting the Ninth Crusade against Baibars; however, they are unable to capture any territory and a peace is quickly negotiated.
[edit] Asia
- September 12 - According to the followers of Nichiren Buddhism, the sect's founder, Nichiren, reaches a turning point known as hosshaku kempon, as he discards his identity as a mortal priest and begins to reveal himself as a reincarnation of the Buddha.
- December 18 - Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of China.
- The Nakhi kingdom of the northern Himalayan foothills is annexed by the Yuan Dynasty.
[edit] Births
- May - Joan of Acre, daughter of King Edward I of England (d. 1307)
- September 8 - Charles Martel d'Anjou, son of Charles II of Naples (d. 1295)
- September 17 - King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305)
- November 5 - Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
- Emperor Bing of Song (d. 1279)
- Elizabeth of Aragon, queen of Denis of Portugal (d. 1336)
- Mikhail Yaroslavich, Grand Prince of Vladimir (d. 1318)
- Duke Rudolph II of Austria (d. 1290)
[edit] Deaths
- January 18 - Saint Margaret of Hungary (b. 1242)
- January 28 - Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)
- March 13 - Henry of Almain, English crusader (b. 1235)
- August 21 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
- September 9 - Yaroslav of Tver, Grand Duke of Vladimir
- October 27 - Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
- Hajji Bektash Wali, Turkish mystic (b. 1209)
- Richard de Grey, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
- Baraq, khan
- Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster (b. 1220)