1271

'Years:' 1268 1269 1270 - 1271 - 1272 1273 1274

'Decades:' 1240s 1250s 1260s - '1270s' - 1280s 1290s 1300s

'Centuries:' 12th century - '13th century' - 14th century

Contents

Events

Europe

North Africa and the Middle East

Asia

Births

Deaths

Events

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 three-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.

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.

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.

Births

★ May - Joan of Acre, daughter of King Edward I of England (died 1307)

★ September 8 - Charles Martel d'Anjou, son of Charles II of Naples (died 1295)

★ September 17 - King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (died 1305)

★ November 5 - Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (died 1304)

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★ Emperor Bing of Song (died 1279)

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★ Elizabeth of Aragon, queen of Denis of Portugal (died 1336)

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★ Mikhail Yaroslavich, Grand Prince of Vladimir (died 1318)

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★ Duke Rudolph II of Austria (died 1290)

Deaths

★ January 18 - Saint Margaret of Hungary (born 1242)

★ January 28 - Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (born 1247)

★ March 13 - Henry of Almain, English crusader (born 1235)

★ August 21 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (born 1220)

★ September 9 - Yaroslav of Tver, Grand Duke of Vladimir

★ October 27 - Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (born 1213)

★ Hajji Bektash Wali, Turkish mystic (born 1209)

★ Richard de Grey, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports

★ Baraq, khan

★ Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster (born 1220)