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Year 1286 (MCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Africa

  • Abu Zakariya is successful in setting a principality centered on Béjaïa, which becomes a rival of the main Hafsid entity based in Tunis.

    • Asia

  • In the Lao kingdom of Muang Sua, King Panya Leng is overthrown in a coup d'état led by his son Panya Khamphong, which is likely to have been supported by the regionally dominant Mongol Yuan Dynasty of China.
  • Kublai Khan plots a final Mongol invasion of Japan, but aborts the plan due to a lack of necessary resources.

    • Europe

  • March 19 – King Alexander III of Scotland dies in a horse accident with only Yolande of Dreux, Queen of Scotland's unborn child and 3-year-old Margaret, Maid of Norway as heirs; this sets the stage for the First War of Scottish Independence and increased influence of England over Scotland.
  • King Philip IV of France imposes the gabelle – a tax on salt in the form of a state monopoly – which would become immensely unpopular and grossly unequal, but persist until 1790.
  • Prussians resettled in Sambia stage a famous uprising.
  • King Rudolph I of Germany declares all Jews to be "serfs of the Treasury", thus negating all their political freedoms.
  • The Guelph Republic of Siena allows exiled Ghibelline rebels back into the city.
  • War of the Ass between the Ghisi and Sanudo families in the Duchy of the Archipelago.

    • Arts and culture

  • March 7 – The Catholicon, a religious Latin dictionary, is completed by John Balbi of Genoa.

    • Births

  • March 8 – John III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1341)
  • June 30 – John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English nobleman (d. 1347)
  • date unknown – John Palaiologos, Byzantine prince and governor of Thessalonica (d. 1307)
  • probable
  • Sir James Douglas, Scottish patriot (d. 1330)
  • Hugh Despenser the Younger (d. 1326)
  • William I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1337)
  • John Clyn, Irish chronicler

    • Deaths

  • January 4 – Anna Komnene Doukaina, Princess of Achaea
  • March 19 – Alexander III of Scotland (b. 1241)
  • June 16 – Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely
  • July 30 – Bar Hebraeus, Syrian scholar (b. 1226)
  • October 8 – John I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1217)
  • November 9 – Roger Northwode, English statesman (b. 1230)
  • November 22 – Eric V of Denmark (b. 1249)
  • date unknown – William of Moerbeke, English Dominican classicist (b. 1215)
  • date unknown – Sophia of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1241)

    • References

    1286 Wikipedia
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