1280

1280 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1280 MCCLXXX
Ab urbe condita	2033
Armenian calendar	729 ԹՎ ՉԻԹ
Assyrian calendar	6030
Balinese saka calendar	1201–1202
Bengali calendar	686–687
Berber calendar	2230
English Regnal year	8  Edw. 1  – 9  Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1824
Burmese calendar	642
Byzantine calendar	6788–6789
Chinese calendar	己卯年 (Earth  Rabbit) 3977 or 3770     — to — 庚辰年 (Metal  Dragon) 3978 or 3771
Coptic calendar	996–997
Discordian calendar	2446
Ethiopian calendar	1272–1273
Hebrew calendar	5040–5041
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1336–1337
- Shaka Samvat	1201–1202
- Kali Yuga	4380–4381
Holocene calendar	11280
Igbo calendar	280–281
Iranian calendar	658–659
Islamic calendar	678–679
Japanese calendar	Kōan 3 (弘安３年)
Javanese calendar	1190–1191
Julian calendar	1280 MCCLXXX
Korean calendar	3613
Minguo calendar	632 before ROC 民前632年
Nanakshahi calendar	−188
Thai solar calendar	1822–1823
Tibetan calendar	阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 1406 or 1025 or 253     — to — 阳金龙年 (male Iron-Dragon) 1407 or 1026 or 254

1280 ( MCCLXXX ) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar. It was the 1280th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 280th year of the 2nd millennium, the 80th year of the 13th century, and the first year of the 1280s decade.

Events

• June 23 – Reconquista : Battle of Moclín – Troops of the Emirate of Granada defeat those of the Kingdom of Castile and Kingdom of León. ^[1]
• September 27 – King Magnus III of Sweden founds a Swedish nobility by enacting a law accepting a contribution of a cavalry member in lieu of ordinary tax payments. ^[2]
• Tsar Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria flees from Tarnovo, ending the Asen dynasty in Bulgaria. ^[3]
• Syria attempts to secede from the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, but Al Mansur Qalawun defeats the rebels and keeps Syria within the Egyptian sultanate. ^[4]
• Turin is conquered by Thomas III of Savoy, becoming the capital of the House of Savoy. ^[5]
• Construction on the northern section of the Grand Canal of China is begun. ^[6]
• The final expansion of Lincoln Cathedral in England is completed. ^[7]
• The second of two main surveys of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow-up to the Domesday Book (completed in 1086), is finished; it began in 1279.
• Approximate date
  • The ancestors of the Māori people from eastern Polynesia become the first human settlers of New Zealand. ^[8]
  • The Wolf minimum of solar activity begins. ^[9]

Births

• Birger, King of Sweden, Swedish monarch (d. 1321) ^[10]
• Wu Zhen, Chinese painter (d. 1354) ^[11]
• Approximate date
  • Anna of Kashin, Russian princess consort and saint (d. 1368) ^[12]
  • Mansa Musa, mansa of the Mali Empire (d. c.1337)

Deaths

• February 10 – Margaret II, Countess of Flanders (b. 1202) ^[13]
• May 9 – Magnus VI of Norway ^[14]
• August 22 – Pope Nicholas III (b. 1218) ^[15]
• November 15 – Albertus Magnus, German theologian ^[16]
• Approximate date– Ertuğrul, Ottoman bey, father of Osman I ^[17]

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14. Baird, Robert (1842). Visit to Northern Europe: Or, Sketches Descriptive, Historical, Political and Moral, of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, and the Free Cities of Hamburg and Lubeck, Containing Notices of the Manners and Customs, Commerce, Manufactures, Arts and Sciences, Education, Literature and Religion, of Those Countries and Cities. Vol. II. New York: J.S. Taylor & Company. p. 45.
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