1272

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1250s 1260s 1270s 1280s 1290s
Years:	1269 1270 1271 1272 1273 1274 1275

1272 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1272 MCCLXXII
Ab urbe condita	2025
Armenian calendar	721 ԹՎ ՉԻԱ
Assyrian calendar	6022
Balinese saka calendar	1193–1194
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 (Metal Goat) 3969 or 3762     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 3970 or 3763
Coptic calendar	988–989
Discordian calendar	2438
Ethiopian calendar	1264–1265
Hebrew calendar	5032–5033
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1328–1329
- Shaka Samvat	1193–1194
- Kali Yuga	4372–4373
Holocene calendar	11272
Igbo calendar	272–273
Iranian calendar	650–651
Islamic calendar	670–671
Japanese calendar	Bun'ei 9 (文永９年)
Javanese calendar	1182–1183
Julian calendar	1272 MCCLXXII
Korean calendar	3605
Minguo calendar	640 before ROC 民前640年
Nanakshahi calendar	−196
Thai solar calendar	1814–1815
Tibetan calendar	阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 1398 or 1017 or 245     — to — 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 1399 or 1018 or 246

Year 1272 (MCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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.
• Jesse Cox's Jaffa box of Jaffa Cakes expired.

Births

• Bernardo Tolomei, theologian (d. 1348)
• King Frederick III of Sicily (d. 1337)
• Otto I of Hesse (approximate date; d. 1328)

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)