1280

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Years: 1277 1278 1279 - 1280 - 1281 1282 1283

Decades: 1250s 1260s 1270s - 1280s - 1290s 1300s 1310s

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

1280 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

1280 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1280 MCCLXXX
Ab urbe condita	2033
Armenian calendar	729 ԹՎ ՉԻԹ
Chinese calendar	3916/3976-11-27 (己卯年十一月廿七日) — to — 3917/3977-12-8 (庚辰年十二月初八日)
Ethiopian calendar	1272 – 1273
Hebrew calendar	5040 – 5041
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1335 – 1336
- Shaka Samvat	1202 – 1203
- Kali Yuga	4381 – 4382
Iranian calendar	658 – 659
Islamic calendar	679 – 680
Japanese calendar
- Imperial Year	Kōki 1940 (皇紀1940年)
- Jōmon Era	11280
Thai solar calendar	1823

[edit] Events

• Construction on the northern section of the Grand Canal of China is begun.
• The final expansion of the Lincoln Cathedral is completed.
• King Magnus I of Sweden founds a Swedish nobility by enacting a law accepting a contribution of a cavalry-member in lieu of ordinary tax payments.
• King Edward I of England forms the Court of King's Bench to hear petitions for justice instead of the king hearing them himself.
• The Wolf minimum of solar activity begins (approximate date).
• The Asen dynasty of tsars of Bulgaria ends.
• The Egyptian city of Al Mansurah is founded.
• Syria attempts to secede from the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt, but Qalawun defeats the rebels and keeps Syria within the Egyptian sultanate.
• 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 completed; it began in 1279.

[edit] Births

• Birger of Sweden (died 1321)
• Wu Zhen, Chinese painter (died 1354)

[edit] Deaths

• August 22 - Pope Nicholas III (born 1218)
• November 15 - Albertus Magnus, German theologian
• Magnus VI of Norway