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Year 1280 (MCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

  • June 23 – Reconquista – Battle of Moclín: Troops of the Emirate of Granada defeat those of the Kingdom of Castile and Kingdom of León.
  • Construction on the northern section of the Grand Canal of China is begun.
  • The final expansion of Lincoln Cathedral in England is completed.
  • King Magnus III of Sweden founds a Swedish nobility by enacting a law accepting a contribution of a cavalry-member in lieu of ordinary tax payments.
  • Tsar Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria flees from Tarnovo, ending the Asen dynasty in Bulgaria.
  • Syria attempts to secede from the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, but Al Mansur Qalawun defeats the rebels and keeps Syria within the Egyptian sultanate.
  • 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 completed; it began in 1279.
  • Turin is conquered by Thomas III of Savoy, becoming the capital of the House of Savoy.
  • Approximate date
  • First human settling of New Zealand, by Māori people from eastern Polynesia.
  • The Wolf minimum of solar activity begins.

    • Births

  • Birger of Sweden (d. 1321)
  • Wu Zhen, Chinese painter (d. 1354)

    • Deaths

  • February 10 – Margaret II, Countess of Flanders (b. 1202)
  • May 9 – Magnus VI of Norway
  • August 22 – Pope Nicholas III (b. 1218)
  • November 15 – Albertus Magnus, German theologian

    • References

    1280 Wikipedia
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