1283

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1260s 1270s 1280s 1290s 1300s
Years:	1280 1281 1282 1283 1284 1285 1286

1283 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1283 MCCLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2036
Armenian calendar	732 ԹՎ ՉԼԲ
Assyrian calendar	6033
Balinese saka calendar	1204–1205
Bengali calendar	690
Berber calendar	2233
English Regnal year	11 Edw. 1 – 12 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1827
Burmese calendar	645
Byzantine calendar	6791–6792
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse) 3980 or 3773     — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 3981 or 3774
Coptic calendar	999–1000
Discordian calendar	2449
Ethiopian calendar	1275–1276
Hebrew calendar	5043–5044
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1339–1340
- Shaka Samvat	1204–1205
- Kali Yuga	4383–4384
Holocene calendar	11283
Igbo calendar	283–284
Iranian calendar	661–662
Islamic calendar	681–682
Japanese calendar	Kōan 6 (弘安６年)
Javanese calendar	1193–1194
Julian calendar	1283 MCCLXXXIII
Korean calendar	3616
Minguo calendar	629 before ROC 民前629年
Nanakshahi calendar	−185
Thai solar calendar	1825–1826
Tibetan calendar	阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 1409 or 1028 or 256     — to — 阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 1410 or 1029 or 257

Year 1283 (MCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Africa

• The Hafsid ruler, Ibrahim I, is toppled by a Bedouin rebellion led by Abd al-Aziz I.

Asia

• September 22 – First Mongol invasion of Burma opens. The fort at Ngasaunggyan is besieged and falls to the invaders on December 3.
• King Ram Khamhaeng of the Sukhothai Kingdom creates the Thai alphabet, according to tradition.
• Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty invades the Khmer Empire of present-day Cambodia; King Jayavarman VIII decides to pay tribute rather than fight the invasion, buying peace and preserving the empire.
• Construction on the northern section of the Grand Canal of China is completed.
• The city of Guiyang is founded in Yuan dynasty China.

Europe

• June 1 – The young Rudolf II, Duke of Austria is forced to yield his claim on the Duchies of Austria and Styria to his elder brother, Albert I of Germany, under the Treaty of Rheinfelden.
• July 8 – At the naval Battle of Malta at Valletta, an Angevin fleet sent to help put down a rebellion on Malta is defeated by the fleet of Roger of Lauria.
• October 3 – Death by hanging, drawing and quartering is first used as a form of capital punishment (for the newly created crime of high treason) by King Edward I of England in his execution of Dafydd ap Gruffydd, the last ruler of an independent Wales, at Shrewsbury.
• The first regulated Catalan Courts were reunited by the king Peter III of Aragon for the whole Principality of Catalonia. It became in one of the first medieval parliaments that banned the royal power to create legislation unilaterally.
• An earthquake destroys two thirds of the cave city of Vardzia, Georgia.
• Construction of Caernarfon Castle, Conwy Castle, and Harlech Castle is begun in Wales by King Edward I of England as a system of defenses against possible future Welsh uprisings.
• King Philip III of France causes a mass migration of Jews when he outlaws their residence in the small villages and rural localities of France.
• Daniel of Moscow unites the west side of Russia, which ends the Kievan Rus' after 301 years and begins the Grand Duchy of Moscow (the Mongolian occupation ended in some areas as late as 1440).

By topic

Arts and culture

• The E. codex of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of Portuguese musical manuscripts, is dated to between 1280 and 1283.
• The Libro de los juegos, an early European treatise on board games (including chess, dice, and a version of backgammon), is commissioned by King Alfonso X of Castile between 1251 and 1283.
• approx. date – Ramon Llull writes Blanquerna, the first major work of literature written in Catalan, and perhaps the first European novel.

Markets

• The Saxon city of Goslar starts making efforts to redeem its already issued annuities, a sure indication of financial difficulty and maybe an early sign of the 13th century crisis.

Religion

• Jakub Świnka becomes archbishop of Gniezno.

Births

• April 9 – Margaret, Maid of Norway, Queen of Scotland (d. 1290)

Deaths

• January 9 – Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (b. 1236; executed)
• April 9 – Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway (b. 1261; childbirth)
• October 3 – Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Wales (executed)
• December 15 – Philip I, Latin Emperor (b. 1243)
• date unknown – Piotr of Bogoria and Skotnik, Polish noble
• date unknown – Kutlugh Turkan, sovereign queen of Kirman from 1257 until 1282.