1271
Year 1271 (MCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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| Gregorian calendar | 1271 MCCLXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2024 |
| Armenian calendar | 720 ԹՎ ՉԻ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6021 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1192–1193 |
| Bengali calendar | 678 |
| Berber calendar | 2221 |
| English Regnal year | 55 Hen. 3 – 56 Hen. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1815 |
| Burmese calendar | 633 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6779–6780 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 3967 or 3907 — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 3968 or 3908 |
| Coptic calendar | 987–988 |
| Discordian calendar | 2437 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1263–1264 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5031–5032 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1327–1328 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1192–1193 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4371–4372 |
| Holocene calendar | 11271 |
| Igbo calendar | 271–272 |
| Iranian calendar | 649–650 |
| Islamic calendar | 669–670 |
| Japanese calendar | Bun'ei 8 (文永８年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1181–1182 |
| Julian calendar | 1271 MCCLXXI |
| Korean calendar | 3604 |
| Minguo calendar | 641 before ROC 民前641年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −197 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1813–1814 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) 1397 or 1016 or 244 — to — 阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 1398 or 1017 or 245 |
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Baibars capture the Krak des Chevaliers in Syria from the Knights Hospitaller.
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 three-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
- 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 – Nichiren is nearly beheaded. This incident, known as Hosshaku Kempon or "casting off the transient and revealing the true,"[1] is regarded as a turning point of Nichiren’s teachings within the various schools known as Nichiren Buddhism.
- December 18 – Kublai Khan renames his empire "Great Yuan" (大元; dà 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
- September 8 – Charles Martel of Anjou, son of Charles II of Naples (d. 1295)
- September 27 – 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 28 – Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)
- March 13 – Henry of Almain, English crusader (b. 1235)
- July 28 – Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster (b. 1220)
- August 21 – Alphonse, Count of Poitiers, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
- August 25 – Joan, Countess of Toulouse (b. 1220)
- September 9 – Yaroslav of Tver, Grand Duke of Vladimir
- October 17 – Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir, Icelandic aristocrat and poet
- Haji Bektash Veli, Khorasanian mystic (b. 1209)
- Richard de Grey, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
- Baraq, khan of the Chagatai Khanate
- Maria of Chernigov, princess regent of Rostov and chronicler (b. 1212)
References
- Dictionary of Buddhism, http://www.nichirenlibrary.org Accessed 2015-03-26. Archived 2015-03-30.
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