1279

This article is about the year 1279. For the number, see 1279 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1240s  1250s  1260s  – 1270s –  1280s  1290s  1300s
Years:	1276 1277 1278 – 1279 – 1280 1281 1282

1279 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1279 in poetry

1279 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1279 MCCLXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2032
Armenian calendar	728 ԹՎ ՉԻԸ
Assyrian calendar	6029
Bengali calendar	686
Berber calendar	2229
English Regnal year	7 Edw. 1 – 8 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1823
Burmese calendar	641
Byzantine calendar	6787–6788
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3975 or 3915     — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3976 or 3916
Coptic calendar	995–996
Discordian calendar	2445
Ethiopian calendar	1271–1272
Hebrew calendar	5039–5040
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1335–1336
- Shaka Samvat	1201–1202
- Kali Yuga	4380–4381
Holocene calendar	11279
Igbo calendar	279–280
Iranian calendar	657–658
Islamic calendar	677–678
Japanese calendar	Kōan 2 (弘安２年)
Julian calendar	1279 MCCLXXIX
Korean calendar	3612
Minguo calendar	633 before ROC 民前633年
Thai solar calendar	1821–1822

Year 1279 A.D (MCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Africa

• Abu Ishaq, uncle of the Hafsid khalif, sides with the Almohad rebels of Béjaïa and takes Tunis.

Asia

• March 19 – Battle of Yamen: Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty defeats and ends the Song dynasty after three centuries, and he becomes the emperor of all China. The Mongol Empire reaches its largest extent, although it has already partially fragmented.
• April 17 – Thawun Gyi settles at Taungoo (in modern-day Real Myanmar) and becomes its first ruler.
• October 12 – The Dai-Gohonzon, the supreme object of veneration of Nichiren Shōshū Buddhism, is said to be inscribed by Nichiren.
• A Yuan diplomatic party sent by Kublai Khan to Japan is killed by Japan's regent Hōjō Tokimune, leading to a second invasion attempt by the Mongols in 1281.
• The Chola dynasty of South India falls under attacks by the Hoysala Empire and Pandyan Kingdom.
• Ram Khamhaeng's reign commences as the third king of Thailand's Sukhothai Era, a great "Golden Age" foreshadowing modern-day Thailand.
• Mamluk sultan Baraka Khan and emir Qalawun of Egypt invade Armenia; a revolt in Egypt while they are away forces Baraka to abdicate and allows Qalawun to become sultan.

Europe

• March 5 – Battle of Aizkraukle: Lithuanian forces led by Traidenis defeat the Livonian Order of Teutonic Knights.
• July 20 – The Castilians are forced to abandon the first Siege of Algeciras (begun in 1278) after their fleet is destroyed by the Moroccans led by Abu Yaqub Yusuf an-Nasr and the Infante Pedro of Castile flees the field.
• The first of the Statutes of Mortmain are passed under King Edward I of England, which prevents land from passing into possession of the Church.
• The second of two main surveys of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086, is begun; it lasts until 1280.
• Al-Razi's important medical writings are translated into Latin by Faraj ben Salim, some 350 years after Al-Razi's death.
• The Royal Mint of England moves into the Tower of London.
• The town of Haapsalu, Estonia is founded.

Births

• date unknown
  • Ismail I, Sultan of Granada (d. 1325)
  • Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1341)
  • Muktabai, Indian saint in the Varkari tradition (d. 1297)

Deaths

• February 16 – King Afonso III of Portugal (b. 1210)
• March – Zhang Shijie, Chinese admiral and official
• March 16 – Jeanne of Dammartin, Queen consort of Castile and León (b. 1216)
• March 19 – Emperor Bing of Song (b. 1271)
• April – Walter Giffard, Lord Chancellor of England and archbishop
• April 14 – Duke Boleslaus of Greater Poland
• September 11 – Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury
• December 7 – King Boleslaus V of Poland (b. 1226)