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| 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 | |
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| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
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| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Births – Deaths – Works | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1279 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1279 MCCLXXIX
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| Ab urbe condita | 2032 |
| Armenian calendar | 728 ԹՎ ՉԻԸ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -565 – -564 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1823 |
| 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 | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 1939 (皇紀1939年) |
| Julian calendar | 1324 |
| Korean calendar | 3612 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1822 |
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Events
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EuropeEdit
- 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.
AsiaEdit
- 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.
BirthsEdit
DeathsEdit
- 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)
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