1276

Years: 1273 1274 1275 - 1276 - 1277 1278 1279
Decades: 1240s 1250s 1260s - 1270s - 1280s 1290s 1300s
Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century

1276 by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

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January 21 - Pope Innocent V succeeds Pope Gregory X as the 185th pope.
February - The court of the Southern Song Dynasty of China and hundreds of thousands of its citizens flee from Hangzhou to Fujian and then Guangdong in an effort to escape an invasion by the Mongol Empire.
March 9 - Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City. Ravensburg also does in the same year.
June - King Rudolph I of Germany declares war on King Otakar II of Bohemia, a political rival; by November, Otakar II is forced to cede four important territories as demanded by the diet of Nuremberg in 1274.
July 11 - Pope Adrian V (also referred to as Hadrian) succeeds Pope Innocent V as the 186th pope.
September 8 - Pope John XXI succeeds Pope Adrian V as the 187th pope, becoming the fourth man this calendar year to hold the office of pope.
Stefan Dragutin of Serbia became a Serbian king.
The foundation stone of the Minoritenkirche in Vienna is laid by King Otakar II of Bohemia.
Mamluk sultan Baibars conquers Al-Maris, previously part of Makuria, and annexes it into Egypt.
A severe 23-year drought begins to affect the Grand Canyon area, eventually forcing the agriculture-dependent Anasazi culture to migrate out of the region.