1271

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,"^[1] 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)

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