1271
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| Years: 1268 1269 1270 – 1271 – 1272 1273 1274 |
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| Decades: 1240s 1250s 1260s – 1270s – 1280s 1290s 1300s |
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| Centuries: 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
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| 1271 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
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| Art and literature | |
| 1271 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1271 MCCLXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2024 |
| Armenian calendar | 720 ԹՎ ՉԻ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -573 – -572 |
| Berber calendar | 2221 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1815 |
| Burmese calendar | 633 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6779 – 6780 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚午年十一月十九日 (3907/3967-11-19) — to —
辛未年十一月廿八日(3908/3968-11-28) |
| Coptic calendar | 987 – 988 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1263 – 1264 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5031 – 5032 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1326 – 1327 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1193 – 1194 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4372 – 4373 |
| Holocene calendar | 11271 |
| Iranian calendar | 649 – 650 |
| Islamic calendar | 669 – 670 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3604 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1814 |
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[edit] Events
[edit] Europe
- July 2 – Kings Otakar II of Bohemia and Stephen V of Hungary sign the first Peace of Pressburg, settling territorial claims following the failed invasion of Hungary by Otakar II.
- September 1 – Pope Gregory X succeeds Pope Clement IV as the 184th pope, as the compromise candidate between French and Italian cardinals, ending a 3-year conclave, the longest ever.
- The County of Toulouse is returned to the crown of France.
- Marco Polo departs from Venice with his father and uncle on his famous journey to Kublai Khan's China.
- The construction of Caerphilly Castle, the largest in Wales, is completed.
- Construction of the Belaya Vezha in Belarus is begun.
[edit] North Africa and the Middle East
Baibars captured the Krak des Chevaliers in Syria from the Knights Hospitaller in 1271.
- April 8 – Mamluk sultan Baibars continues his territorial expansion, capturing the strategically important castle Krak des Chevaliers from the Knights Hospitaller in present-day Syria.
- Mamluk sultan Baibars conducts an unsuccessful siege of the city of Tripoli, and also fails in an attempted naval invasion of Cyprus.
- Edward I of England and Charles of Anjou arrive in Acre, starting the Ninth Crusade against Baibars; however, they are unable to capture any territory and a peace is quickly negotiated.
[edit] Asia
- September 12 – According to the followers of Nichiren Buddhism, the sect's founder, Nichiren, reaches a turning point known as hosshaku kempon, as he discards his identity as a mortal priest and begins to reveal himself as a reincarnation of the Buddha.
- December 18 – Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of China.
- The Nakhi kingdom of the northern Himalayan foothills is annexed by the Yuan Dynasty.
[edit] Births
- May – Joan of Acre, daughter of King Edward I of England (d. 1307)
- September 8 – Charles Martel d'Anjou, son of Charles II of Naples (d. 1295)
- September 17 – King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305)
- November 5 – Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
- Emperor Bing of Song (d. 1279)
- Elizabeth of Aragon, queen of Denis of Portugal (d. 1336)
- Mikhail Yaroslavich, Grand Prince of Vladimir (d. 1318)
- Duke Rudolph II of Austria (d. 1290)
[edit] Deaths
- January 18 – Saint Margaret of Hungary (b. 1242)
- January 28 – Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)
- March 13 – Henry of Almain, English crusader (b. 1235)
- August 21 – Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
- September 9 – Yaroslav of Tver, Grand Duke of Vladimir
- October 27 – Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
- Hajji Bektash Wali, Turkish mystic (b. 1209)
- Richard de Grey, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
- Baraq, khan of the Chagatai Khanate
- Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster (b. 1220)
