Years: 1276 1277 1278 - 1279 - 1280 1281 1282

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

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

1279 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

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Art and literature

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1279 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1279 MCCLXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2032
Armenian calendar	728 ԹՎ ՉԻԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-565 – -564
Berber calendar	2229
Buddhist calendar	1823
Burmese calendar	641
Chinese calendar	3915/3975-intercalary 11-17 (戊寅年閏十一月十七日) — to — 3916/3976-11-26 (己卯年十一月廿六日)
Coptic calendar	995 – 996
Ethiopian calendar	1271 – 1272
Hebrew calendar	5039 – 5040
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1334 – 1335
- Shaka Samvat	1201 – 1202
- Kali Yuga	4380 – 4381
Holocene calendar	11279
Iranian calendar	657 – 658
Islamic calendar	677 – 678
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3612
Thai solar calendar	1822
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Contents 1 Events 1.1 Europe 1.2 Asia 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

Europe

• March 5 - Battle of Aizkraukle: Lithuanian forces led by Traidenis defeat the Teutonic Knights.
• 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.
• The town of Haapsalu, Estonia is founded.

Asia

• March 19 - Battle of Yamen: Kublai Khan's Mongol Yuan Dynasty defeats and ends the Song Dynasty, completing the Mongol conquest of China.
• 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 (d. 1342)

Deaths

• February 16 - King Afonso III of Portugal (b. 1210)
• March - Zhang Shijie, Chinese admiral and official
• March 19 - Emperor Bing of Song China (b. 1271)
• April 14 - Duke Boleslaus of Greater Poland
• September 11 - Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury
• December 7 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (b. 1226)
• Walter Giffard, Lord Chancellor of England and archbishop
• Jeanne of Dammartin, Queen consort of Castile and León (b. 1216)