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Year 1272 (MCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

  • May 12 – The Mamluk sultan Baybars and the Kingdom of Jerusalem conclude a ten-year truce at Caesarea.
  • Baybars invades the weakening kingdom of Makuria to the south of Egypt.
  • Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples, occupies Durazzo 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 16 – Edward I becomes King of England.
  • King Alphonso III of Portugal eliminates the last Moorish community in Portugal at Faro.
  • 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

  • December 13 – King Frederick III of Sicily (d. 1337)
  • date unknown – Bernardo Tolomei, theologian (d. 1348)
  • 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
  • October 27 or October 30 – Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1213)
  • November 16 – King Henry III of England (b. 1207)
  • December 13 – Bertold of Regensburg, German preacher
  • Bartholomeus Anglicus, English Franciscan monk and encyclopedia writer (b. before 1203)
  • William of Saint-Amour, French scholastic philosopher (b. 1200)
  • William of Sherwood, English logician (approximate date; b. c.1200)

    • References

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