1279
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| Gregorian calendar | 1279 MCCLXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2032 |
| Armenian calendar | 728 ԹՎ ՉԻԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6029 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1200–1201 |
| 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 | 1200–1201 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4379–4380 |
| Holocene calendar | 11279 |
| Igbo calendar | 279–280 |
| Iranian calendar | 657–658 |
| Islamic calendar | 677–678 |
| Japanese calendar | Kōan 2 (弘安２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1189–1190 |
| Julian calendar | 1279 MCCLXXIX |
| Korean calendar | 3612 |
| Minguo calendar | 633 before ROC 民前633年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −189 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1821–1822 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 1405 or 1024 or 252 — to — 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 1406 or 1025 or 253 |
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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
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
- March 11 – Mary of Woodstock, daughter of Edward I of England
- 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)[2]
- March 19 – Emperor Bing of Song (b. 1271)
- April – Walter Giffard, Lord Chancellor of England and archbishop
- April 14 – Duke Boleslaus of Greater Poland
- May 28 – William Wishart, English bishop
- September 11 – Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury
- December 7 – King Boleslaus V of Poland (b. 1226)
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