1272
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This article is about the year 1272.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1240s 1250s 1260s – 1270s – 1280s 1290s 1300s |
| Years: | 1269 1270 1271 – 1272 – 1273 1274 1275 |
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| 1272 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1272 MCCLXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2025 |
| Armenian calendar | 721 ԹՎ ՉԻԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6022 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -572–-571 |
| Bengali calendar | 679 |
| Berber calendar | 2222 |
| English Regnal year | 56 Hen. 3 – 1 Edw. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1816 |
| Burmese calendar | 634 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6780–6781 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛未年十一月廿九日 (3908/3968-11-29) — to —
壬申年十二月初十日(3909/3969-12-10) |
| Coptic calendar | 988–989 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1264–1265 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5032–5033 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1328–1329 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1194–1195 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4373–4374 |
| Holocene calendar | 11272 |
| Iranian calendar | 650–651 |
| Islamic calendar | 670–671 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3605 |
| Minguo calendar | 640 before ROC 民前640年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1815 |
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Year 1272 (MCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
- Mamluk sultan Baibars of Egypt invades the weakening kingdom of Makuria to the south.
- Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples, occupies Durrës in Albania and establishes an Albanian kingdom.
- Count Floris V of Holland makes an unsuccessful attack on Frisia in an attempt to recover the body of his father, Count William II.
- November 21 – Edward I becomes King of England.
- King Alphonso III of Portugal eliminates the last Moorish community in Portugal at Faro.
- The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers receives the right to regulate the leather trade in London, England.
- In astronomy, the recording of the Alfonsine tables is completed.
- The first recorded reference is made to the game of cricket.
[edit] Births
- Bernardo Tolomei, theologian (d. 1348)
- King Frederick III of Sicily (d. 1337)
- Otto I of Hesse (approximate date; d. 1328)
[edit] Deaths
- March 17 – Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (b. 1220)
- March 18 – John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel (b. 1246)
- April 2 – Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1209)
- April 27 – Saint Zita
- August 6 – King Stephen V of Hungary
- November 16 – King Henry III of England (b. 1207)
- December 13 – Bertold von Regensburg, German preacher
- Bartholomeus Anglicus, English Franciscan monk and encyclopedia writer (b. before 1203)
- William of Saint-Amour, French scholastic philosopher (b. 1200)
