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The cathedral atop the Rock of Cashel in Ireland was completed in 1270.
Events
Africa
The Eighth Crusade
Other events in Africa
Asia
- In Korea, the Sambyeolcho Rebellion begins against the Goryeo Dynasty, a puppet government of the Mongol Empire.
- The ancient city of Ashkelon is captured from the crusader states and utterly destroyed by the Mamluk sultan Baibars, who goes so far as to fill in its important harbor, leaving the site desolate and the city never to be rebuilt.
- The city of Tabriz, in present-day Iran, is made capital of the Mongol Ilkhanate Empire (approximate date).
- The independent state of Kutch is founded in present-day India.
- A census of the Chinese city of Hangzhou establishes that some 186,330 families reside within it, not including visitors and soldiers. (Historian Jacques Gernet argues that this means a population of over 1 million inhabitants, making Hangzhou the most populous city in the world.)
Europe
Births
- March 12 - Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (d. 1325)
- Jacob ben Asher, Spanish rabbi and religious writer
- Theodore Metochites, Byzantine statesman and author
- Michael of Cesena, Franciscan theologian (d. 1342)
- Marsilius of Padua, Italian scholar (d. 1342)
- Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (d. 1324)
- Cino da Pistoia, Italian poet (d. 1336)
- Ma Zhiyuan, Chinese poet
- Namdev, Marathi saint and poet (d. 1350)
- William Wallace, Scottish patriot (d. 1305)
Deaths
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