1271

Decades: 1220s 1230s 1240s 1250s 1260s - 1270s - 1280s 1290s 1300s 1310s 1320s

Years: 1266 1267 1268 1269 1270 - 1271 - 1272 1273 1274 1275 1276

Events

• Kublai Khan named his empire "Yuan" (元 yuan2), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty.
• The 1st Peace of Pressburg is signed in Bratislava on July 2 between Czech king Ottokar II and King Stephen V of Hungary.
• Gregory X is named Pope
• Baibars, a Mameluk sultan of Egypt, conquers the Krak des Chevaliers
• Baibars conquers the Crusader Principality of Antioch
• Edward I of England organizes the Ninth Crusade against Baibars
• Thomas Agni of Cosenza named Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
• Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England receives a Royal charter allowing it to hold a market and an annual fair
• Kitzbühel officially granted the rights of a city by Louis II of Bavaria

Births

• September 8 - Charles Martel, titular king of Hungary
• September 17 - Wenceslaus II of Bohemia

• Jeanne of Navarre, Queen Consort of France
• Hojo Sadatoki, regent of the Kamakura Shogunate

Deaths

• August 21 - Alphonse of Toulouse, in Italy, returning from the Eighth Crusade

Monarchs/Presidents

• Aragon - James I King of Aragon and count of Barcelona (reigned from 1213 to 1276)

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