1272

Events

• Mamluk sultan Baibars of Egypt invades the weakening kingdom of Makuria to the south.
• Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples, occupies Durrës in Albania and establishes an Albanian kingdom.
• Count Floris V of Holland makes an unsuccessful attack on Frisia in an attempt to recover the body of his father, Count William II.
• November 21 - Edward becomes King of England.
• King Alphonso III of Portugal eliminates the last Moorish community in Portugal at Faro.
• The city of Strasbourg becomes an Imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire.
• The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers receives the right to regulate the leather trade in London, England.
• In astronomy, the recording of the Alfonsine tables is completed.
• The first recorded reference is made to the game of cricket.

Births

• Bernardo Tolomei (d. 1348)
• King Frederick III of Sicily (d. 1337)
• Otto I of Hesse (approximate date; d. 1328)

Deaths

• March 17 — Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (b. 1220)
• March 18 — John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel (b. 1246)
• April 2 — Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1209)
• April 27 — Saint Zita
• August 6 — King Stephen V of Hungary
• November 16 — King Henry III of England (b. 1207)
• December 13 — Bertold von Regensburg, German preacher
• Unknown dates
• Bartholomeus Anglicus, English Franciscan monk and encyclopedia writer (b. before 1203)
• William of Saint-Amour, French scholastic philosopher (b. 1200)

See also :Category: 1272 deaths.