1271

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1250s 1260s 1270s 1280s 1290s
Years:	1268 1269 1270 1271 1272 1273 1274

1271 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1271 MCCLXXI
Ab urbe condita	2024
Armenian calendar	720 ԹՎ ՉԻ
Assyrian calendar	6021
Balinese saka calendar	1192–1193
Bengali calendar	678
Berber calendar	2221
English Regnal year	55 Hen. 3 – 56 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1815
Burmese calendar	633
Byzantine calendar	6779–6780
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 3968 or 3761     — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 3969 or 3762
Coptic calendar	987–988
Discordian calendar	2437
Ethiopian calendar	1263–1264
Hebrew calendar	5031–5032
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1327–1328
- Shaka Samvat	1192–1193
- Kali Yuga	4371–4372
Holocene calendar	11271
Igbo calendar	271–272
Iranian calendar	649–650
Islamic calendar	669–670
Japanese calendar	Bun'ei 8 (文永８年)
Javanese calendar	1181–1182
Julian calendar	1271 MCCLXXI
Korean calendar	3604
Minguo calendar	641 before ROC 民前641年
Nanakshahi calendar	−197
Thai solar calendar	1813–1814
Tibetan calendar	阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) 1397 or 1016 or 244     — to — 阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 1398 or 1017 or 245

Baibars capture the Krak des Chevaliers in Syria from the Knights Hospitaller.

Year 1271 (MCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• July 2 – Kings Otakar II of Bohemia and Stephen V of Hungary sign the first Peace of Pressburg, settling territorial claims, following the failed invasion of Hungary by Otakar II.
• September 1 – Pope Gregory X succeeds Pope Clement IV as the 184th pope, as the compromise candidate between French and Italian cardinals, ending a three-year conclave, the longest ever.
• The County of Toulouse is returned to the crown of France.
• Marco Polo departs from Venice with his father and uncle, on his famous journey to Kublai Khan's China.
• The construction of Caerphilly Castle, the largest in Wales, is completed.
• Construction of the Belaya Vezha in Belarus is begun.

North Africa and the Middle East

• April 8 – Mamluk sultan Baibars continues his territorial expansion, capturing the strategically important castle Krak des Chevaliers from the Knights Hospitaller in present-day Syria.
• Mamluk sultan Baibars conducts an unsuccessful siege of the city of Tripoli, and also fails in an attempted naval invasion of Cyprus.
• Edward I of England and Charles of Anjou arrive in Acre, starting the Ninth Crusade against Baibars; however, they are unable to capture any territory, and a peace is quickly negotiated.

Asia

• September 12 – Nichiren is nearly beheaded. This incident, known as Hosshaku Kempon or "casting off the transient and revealing the true," is regarded as a turning point of Nichiren’s teachings within the various schools known as Nichiren Buddhism.
• December 18 – Kublai Khan renames his empire "Great Yuan" (大元; dà yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of China.
• The Nakhi Kingdom, of the northern Himalayan foothills, is annexed by the Yuan dynasty.

Births

• September 8 – Charles Martel of Anjou, son of Charles II of Naples (d. 1295)
• September 27 – King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305)
• November 5 – Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
• Emperor Bing of Song (d. 1279)
• Elizabeth of Aragon, queen of Denis of Portugal (d. 1336)
• Mikhail Yaroslavich, Grand Prince of Vladimir (d. 1318)
• Duke Rudolph II of Austria (d. 1290)

Deaths

• January 28 – Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)
• March 13 – Henry of Almain, English crusader (b. 1235)
• July 28 – Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster (b. 1220)
• August 21 – Alphonse, Count of Poitiers, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
• August 25 – Joan, Countess of Toulouse (b. 1220)
• September 9 – Yaroslav of Tver, Grand Duke of Vladimir
• October 17 – Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir, Icelandic aristocrat and poet
• Haji Bektash Veli, Khorasanian mystic (b. 1209)
• Richard de Grey, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
• Baraq, khan of the Chagatai Khanate
• Maria of Chernigov, princess regent of Rostov and chronicler (b. 1212)