Years: 1268 1269 1270 - 1271 - 1272 1273 1274

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

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

1271 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

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Art and literature

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1271 in other calendars

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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Contents 1 Events 1.1 Europe 1.2 North Africa and the Middle East 1.3 Asia 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

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.

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.

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.

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)

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
• Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster (b. 1220)