1287

'Years:' 1284 1285 1286 - 1287 - 1288 1289 1290

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

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

Contents

Events

Europe

Asia

Births

Deaths

Events

Europe

★ January 17 - The treaty of San Agayz is signed. King Alfonso III of Aragon conquers the island of Minorca from the Moors.

★ December 14 - A fringing barrier between the North Sea and a shallow lake in Holland collapses during a heavy storm, causing the fifth largest flood in recorded history which creates the Zuider Zee inlet and kills over 50,000 people; it also gives sea access to Amsterdam, allowing its development as an important port city.

★ The English city of Old Winchelsea on Romney Marsh is destroyed by catastrophic flooding during a severe storm; a new town of the same name is later constructed some two miles away on higher ground.

★ The Altar of St. James at the Cathedral of San Zeno in Pistoia, Italy — a masterwork of the silversmithing trade containing nearly a ton of silver — is begun; it will not be completed for nearly 200 years.

★ King Edward I of England arrests the heads of Jewish households, and demands their communities pay hefty ransoms for their release.

★ Construction on the Cathedral of Uppsala is begun; it will not be completed until 1435.

★ Third mongol Golden Horde attack against Poland, led by khan Talabuga and Nogai Khan. Lublin, Mazovia, Sandomierz and Sieradz was ravaged by the invaders, who were defeated in Kraków.

★ The first appearance of Bruntal coat of arms

Asia

★ Mamluk sultan Qalawun captures the port city of Latakia in present-day Syria.

★ Mongol Ilhan Arghun Khan dispatches Rabban Bar Sauma to the leaders of Europe to negotiate an alliance against Muslim states, specifically the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt.

★ Kings Mengrai of the Lanna kingdom and Ramkhamhaeng the Great of the Sukhothai kingdom agree to a peace pact in their region of southeast Asia (present-day Thailand).

★ The Theravada Buddhist kingdom at Pagan, Myanmar falls to the invading Mongol Empire in the Battle of Pagan.

Births

★ January 24 - Richard Aungerville, English writer and bishop (died 1345)

★ April 25 - Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (died 1330)

★ Robert III of Artois

Deaths

★ April 3 - Pope Honorius IV

★ August 31 - Konrad von Würzburg, German poet

★ October 19 - Bohemund VII of Tripoli

★ Llywelyn ap Dafydd, a Welsh prince, in his prison at Bristol Castle.

★ Hu Sansheng, Chinese historian (born 1230)