1279

'Years:' 1276 1277 1278 - 1279 - 1280 1281 1282

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

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

Contents

Events

Europe

Asia

Births

Deaths

Events

Europe

★ March 5 - Lithuanian forces led by Traidenis defeat the Teutonic Knights in the Battle of Aizkraukle.

★ The first of the Statutes of Mortmain are passed under king Edward I of England, which prevents land from passing into possession of the church.

★ The second of two main surveys of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086, is begun; it lasts until 1280.

★ Al-Razi's important medical writings are translated into Latin by Faraj ben Salim some 350 years after Al-Razi's death.

★ The Royal Mint of England moves into the Tower of London.

★ Haapsalu town (Estonia) is founded.

Asia

★ March 19 - Kublai Khan's Mongol Yuan Dynasty defeats the Song Dynasty in the Battle of Yamen. This completes the Mongol conquest of China and ends the Song Dynasty.

★ October 12 - The ''Dai-Gohonzon'', the supreme object of veneration of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism, is inscribed by Nichiren.

★ A Mongol diplomatic party sent by Kublai Khan to Japan is killed by Japan's regent Hōjō Tokimune, leading to a second invasion attempt by the Mongols in 1281.

★ The Chola Dynasty of South India falls under attacks by the Hoysala Empire and Pandyan kingdom.

★ Mamluk sultan Baraka Khan and emir Qalawun of Egypt invade Armenia; a revolt in Egypt while they are away forces Baraka to abdicate and allows Qalawun to become sultan.

Births

★ Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (died 1342)

Deaths

★ February 16 - King Afonso III of Portugal (born 1210)

★ March - Zhang Shijie, Chinese admiral and official

★ March 19 - Emperor Bing of Song China (born 1271)

★ April 14 - Duke Boleslaus of Greater Poland

★ September 11 - Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury

★ December 7 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (born 1226)

★ Walter Giffard, Lord Chancellor of England and archbishop

★ Jeanne of Dammartin, Queen consort of Castile and León (born 1216)