1270

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1250s 1260s 1270s 1280s 1290s
Years:	1267 1268 1269 1270 1271 1272 1273

1270 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1270 MCCLXX
Ab urbe condita	2023
Armenian calendar	719 ԹՎ ՉԺԹ
Assyrian calendar	6020
Balinese saka calendar	1191–1192
Bengali calendar	677
Berber calendar	2220
English Regnal year	54  Hen. 3  – 55  Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1814
Burmese calendar	632
Byzantine calendar	6778–6779
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth  Snake) 3966 or 3906     — to — 庚午年 (Metal  Horse) 3967 or 3907
Coptic calendar	986–987
Discordian calendar	2436
Ethiopian calendar	1262–1263
Hebrew calendar	5030–5031
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1326–1327
- Shaka Samvat	1191–1192
- Kali Yuga	4370–4371
Holocene calendar	11270
Igbo calendar	270–271
Iranian calendar	648–649
Islamic calendar	668–669
Japanese calendar	Bun'ei 7 (文永７年)
Javanese calendar	1180–1181
Julian calendar	1270 MCCLXX
Korean calendar	3603
Minguo calendar	642 before ROC 民前642年
Nanakshahi calendar	−198
Thai solar calendar	1812–1813
Tibetan calendar	阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 1396 or 1015 or 243     — to — 阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) 1397 or 1016 or 244

The cathedral atop the Rock of Cashel in Ireland was completed in 1270.

Year 1270 ( MCCLXX ) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1270th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 270th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 13th century, and the 1st year of the 1270s decade.

Events

Africa

The Eighth Crusade

• Before August – King Louis IX of France launches the Eighth Crusade, in an attempt to recapture the Crusader States from the Mamluk sultan Baibars; the opening engagement is a siege of Tunis. ^[1]
• August 25 – King Louis IX of France dies while besieging the city of Tunis, possibly due to poor quality drinking water. ^[2]
• October 30 – The siege of Tunis and the Eighth Crusade end, through an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (Louis IX's brother) and Muhammad I al-Mustansir, Khalif of Tunis. ^[3]

Other events

• August 10 (10 Nehasé 1262) – Yekuno Amlak overthrows the Ethiopian Zagwe Dynasty, claims the imperial throne and establishes the Solomonic Dynasty, which will last until 1974. ^[4]

Asia

• In Korea, the Sambyeolcho Rebellion begins against the Goryeo Dynasty, a puppet government of the Mongol Empire. ^[5]
• 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. ^[6]
• The city of Tabriz, in present-day Iran, is made capital of the Mongol Ilkhanate Empire (approximate date). ^[7]
• The independent state of Kutch is founded, in present-day India. ^[8]
• 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). ^[9]
• December 15 – The Nizari Ismaili garrison of Gerdkuh, Persia surrender after 17 years to the Mongols. ^[10]

Europe

• February 16 – Livonian Crusade - Battle of Karuse: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order decisively, on the frozen surface of the Baltic Sea. ^[11]
• September 1 – King Stephen V of Hungary writes his walk to the antiquum castellum near Miholjanec, where the Sword of Attila has been recently discovered.^{[ citation needed ]}
• December – Crucial aspects of the philosophy of Averroism (itself based on Aristotle's works) are banned by the Roman Catholic Church, in a condemnation enacted by papal authority at the University of Paris. ^[12]
• The Summa Theologica , a work by Thomas Aquinas that is considered within the Roman Catholic Church to be the paramount expression of its theology, is completed (year uncertain). ^[13]
• Witelo translates Alhazen's 200-year-old treatise on optics, Kitab al-Manazir, from Arabic into Latin, bringing the work to European academic circles for the first time. ^[14]
• The Sanskrit fables known as the Panchatantra , dating from as early as 200 BCE, are translated into Latin, from a Hebrew version by John of Capua. ^[15]
• Construction of the Old New Synagogue in Prague is completed. ^[16]
• The cathedral on the Rock of Cashel in Ireland is completed. ^[17]
• Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, donates to the Cistercian Hailes Abbey in England (his father's foundation) a phial held to contain the Blood of Christ, acquired in the Holy Roman Empire; this becomes such a magnet for pilgrimage that within 7 years the monks are able to rebuild their abbey on a magnificent scale. ^[18]
• The Chronicle of Melrose is ended. ^[19]

Births

• March 12 – Charles, Count of Valois, son of Philip III of France (d. 1325) ^[20]
• Theodore Metochites, Byzantine statesman and author ^[21]
• Michael of Cesena, Franciscan theologian (d. 1342) ^[22]
• Cino da Pistoia, Italian poet (d. 1336) ^[23]
• Isabella of Burgundy, Queen of Germany (d. 1323) ^[24]
• Ma Zhiyuan, Chinese poet ^[25]
• Namdev, Marathi saint and poet (d. 1350) ^[26]
• approximate– William Wallace, Scottish patriot ^[27]

Deaths

• January 18 – Saint Margaret of Hungary (b. 1242) ^[28]
• February 23 – Saint Isabelle of France, French princess and saint (b. 1225) ^[29]
• March 17 – Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre ^[30]
• May 3 – Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206) ^[31]
• July 9 – Stephen Báncsa, Hungarian cardinal (b. c. 1205) ^[32]
• July 18 – Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury ^[33]
• August 25
  • King Louis IX of France (b. 1214) ^[34]
  • Alphonso of Brienne (b. c. 1225) ^[35]
• September 24 – Philip of Montfort, Lord of Castres ^[36]
• December 4 – Theobald II of Navarre (Theobald V of Champagne) (b. c. 1238) ^[37]
• David VII Ulu, King of Georgia (b. 1215) ^[38]
• Ibn Abi Usaibia, Syrian Arab medical historian (b. 1203) ^[39]
• Isaac ben Moses of Vienna, Jewish rabbi and scholar (b. 1200) ^[40]
• Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk (b. 1212) ^[41]
• Uli I of Mali, second mansa of the Mali Empire ^[42]

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