1280

'Years:' 1277 1278 1279 - 1280 - 1281 1282 1283

'Decades:' 1250s 1260s 1270s - '1280s' - 1290s 1300s 1310s

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

Contents

Events

Births

'Deaths'

Events

★ Construction on the northern section of the Grand Canal of China is begun.

★ The final expansion of the Lincoln Cathedral is completed.

★ King Magnus I of Sweden founds a Swedish nobility by enacting a law accepting a contribution of a cavalry-member in lieu of ordinary tax payments.

★ King Edward I of England forms the Court of King's Bench to hear petitions for justice instead of the king hearing them himself.

★ The Wolf minimum of solar activity begins (approximate date).

★ The Asen dynasty of tsars of Bulgaria ends.

★ Syria attempts to secede from the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt, but Qalawun defeats the rebels and keeps Syria within the Egyptian sultanate.

★ 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 completed; it began in 1279.

★ Turin is conquered by Thomas III of Savoy, becoming the capital of the house of Savoy.

Births

★ Birger of Sweden (died 1321)

★ Wu Zhen, Chinese painter (died 1354)

'Deaths'

★ August 22 - Pope Nicholas III (born 1218)

★ November 15 - Albertus Magnus, German theologian

★ Magnus VI of Norway