1286

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1250s 1260s 1270s – 1280s – 1290s 1300s 1310s
Years:	1283 1284 1285 – 1286 – 1287 1288 1289

1286 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Art and literature
1286 in poetry

Events

March 7 – The Catholicon, a religious Latin dictionary, is completed by John Balbi of Genoa.
March 19 – King Alexander III of Scotland dies in a horse accident with only Queen Yolande de Dreux's unborn child and 3-year-old Margaret, Maid of Norway as heirs; this sets the stage for the First War of Scottish Independence and increased influence of England over Scotland.
In the Lao kingdom of Muang Sua, King Panya Leng is overthrown in a coup d'etat led by his son Panya Khamphong, which is likely to have been supported by the regionally dominant Mongol Yuan dynasty of China.
King Philip IV of France imposes the gabelle — a tax on salt in the form of a state monopoly — which would become immensely unpopular and grossly unequal, but persist until 1790.
Prussians resettled in Sambia stage a famous uprising.
Kublai Khan plots a final Mongol invasion of Japan, but aborts the plan due to a lack of necessary resources.
King Rudolph I of Germany declares all Jews to be "serfs of the Treasury", thus negating all their political freedoms.

In the Video game MediEvil, the Battle of Gallowmere, Scotland, sir Daniel Fortesque leads the Scottish militia towards the evil Fictional character wizard Zarok and his demonic army. Fortesque was killed in action when a stray arrow pierced him through the eye in the first charge, but Zarok is also defeated by the remaining military forces and vanquished. But only to return 100 years later.