1272

'Years:' 1269 1270 1271 - 1272 - 1273 1274 1275

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

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

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Mamluk sultan Baibars of Egypt invades the weakening kingdom of Makuria to the south.

★ Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples, occupies Durres in Albania and establishes an Albanian kingdom.

★ Count Floris V of Holland makes an unsuccessful attack on Frisia in an attempt to recover the body of his father, Count William II.

★ November 21 - Edward becomes King of England.

★ King Alphonso III of Portugal eliminates the last Moorish community in Portugal at Faro.

★ The city of Strasbourg becomes an Imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire.

★ The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers receives the right to regulate the leather trade in London, England.

★ In astronomy, the recording of the Alfonsine tables is completed.

★ The first recorded reference of cricket dates back to 1272.

Births

★ Bernardo Tolomei (died 1348)

★ King Frederick III of Sicily (died 1337)

★ Otto I of Hesse (approximate date; died 1328)

Deaths

★ March 17 - Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (born 1220)

★ March 18 - John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel (born 1246)

★ April 2 - Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1209)

★ April 27 - Saint Zita

★ August 6 - King Stephen V of Hungary

★ November 16 - King Henry III of England (born 1207)

★ December 13 - Bertold von Regensburg, German preacher

★ William of Saint-Amour, French scholastic philosopher (born 1200)

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