1280
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| Years: 1277 1278 1279 - 1280 - 1281 1282 1283 |
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| Decades: 1250s 1260s 1270s - 1280s - 1290s 1300s 1310s |
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| Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century |
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| 1280 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1280 MCCLXXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2033 |
| Armenian calendar | 729 ԹՎ ՉԻԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -564 – -563 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1824 |
| 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 |
| Holocene calendar | 11280 |
| Iranian calendar | 658 – 659 |
| Islamic calendar | 678 – 679 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 1940 (皇紀1940年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11280 |
| Julian calendar | 1325 |
| Korean calendar | 3613 |
| 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.
- 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
