1277

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1240s 1250s 1260s – 1270s – 1280s 1290s 1300s
Years:	1274 1275 1276 – 1277 – 1278 1279 1280

1277 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Art and literature
1277 in poetry

Year 1277 (MCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Battle of Ngasaunggyan: Burma's Pagan Empire begins to disintegrate after being defeated by Kublai Khan at Yunnan near the Chinese border.
Some 50,000 leaders and citizens of the Southern Song Dynasty of China become the first recorded inhabitants of Macau, as they seek refuge from the invading armies of the Yuan Dynasty. They also stay for a short period in Kowloon. Some hundred years later the place where they stayed becomes Sung Wong Toi.
April 15 – Battle of Elbistan: Mamluk sultan Baibars invades the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm and defeats a Mongol army.
Llywelyn ap Gruffyd is subdued by King Edward I of England in the First Welsh War.
St George's cross is first used as the flag of England.
A number of philosophical doctrines such as Averroism are banned from Paris at a condemnation at the University of Paris.
In Japan, a 20 kilometer stone wall defending the coast of Hakata Bay in Fukuoka is completed; it is built in response to the attempted invasion by the Yuan Dynasty in 1274.
November 25 – Pope Nicholas III succeeds Pope John XXI as the 188th pope.

March 3 – Folke Johansson Ängel, Archbishop of Uppsala since 1274
May 1 – Stefan Uros I of Serbia
May 20 – Pope John XXI (b. 1215)
July 1 – Baibars, Mameluk sultan of Egypt (b. 1223)
October 27 – Walter de Merton, Lord Chancellor of England and founder of Merton College, Oxford
Jacopo da Leona, Italian poet, at Volterra