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1270s - Europe. 1271 - July 2 - Kings Otakar II of Bohemia and Stephen V of Hungary sign the first Peace of Pressburg, settling territorial claims following the failed invasion of Hungary by Otakar II. 1272 - Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples, occupies Durres in Albania and establishes an Albanian kingdom. 1272 - King Alphonso III of Portugal eliminates the last Moorish community in Portugal at Faro. 1273 - September 29 - Rudolph I of Germany is elected King of Germany ov ...

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For broader historical context, see 1270s and 13th century. 1274 - Events. 1274 - Europe. May 7 - The Second Council of Lyons, held by the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church convenes to consider the conquest of the Holy Land via Crusades and address the East-West Schism with the Byzantine church. The Council eventually approves a tithe to support efforts to conquer the Holy Land from Muslims, and reaches apparent resolution of the schism which ultimately proves unsucc ...

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For broader historical context, see 1270s and 13th century. 1271 - Events. 1271 - Europe. July 2 - Kings Otakar II of Bohemia and Stephen V of Hungary sign the first Peace of Pressburg, settling territorial claims following the failed invasion of Hungary by Otakar II. September 1 - Pope Gregory X is elected pope by compromise between French and Italian cardinals, ending a three-year conclave, the longest ever. The County of Toulouse is returned to the cro ...

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For broader historical context, see 1270s and 13th century. 1273 - Events. 1273 - Europe. September 29 - Rudolph I of Germany is elected King of Germany over rival candidate King Otakar II of Bohemia, ending the Interregnum; Otakar refuses to acknowledge Rudolph as the new king, leading to the outbreak of war in 1276. Rudolph is the first of many Habsburgs to hold the throne. December 6 - Thomas Aquinas quits his writing of Summa Theologiae — a master wor ...

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For broader historical context, see 1270s and 13th century. 1270 - Events. 1270 - Europe. December - Crucial aspects of the philosophy of Averroism (itself based on Aristotle's works) are banned by the Catholic church in a condemnation enacted by papal authority at the University of Paris. The Summa Theologiae, a work by Thomas Aquinas that is considered within the Roman Catholic Church to be the paramount expression of its theology, is completed (year unce ...

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Saint Zita (c. 1215 - 27 April 1272) is the patron saint of all maids and domestics. She may also be appealed to in order to help find lost keys. She was an Italian woman who began as a servant at the age of 12 to the Fatinelli household in Lucca, Italy. She was unjustly despised, overburdened, reviled, and often beaten by her employers and fellow servants for her hard work and obvious goodness. The incessant ill-usage, however, was powerless to deprive her of her inward peace, her love of those who wronged her, and her respect ...

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Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century Decades: 1170s 1180s 1190s 1200s 1210s - 1220s - 1230s 1240s 1250s 1260s 1270s Years: 1217 1218 1219 1220 1221 1222 1223 1224 1225 1226 1227 See also: 1222 state leaders 1222 - Events. Foundation of the University of Padua Completion of the Cistercian convent in Alcobaca, Portugal Eric XI becomes King of Sweden Premysl Ottokar I reunites Bohemia and Moravia ...

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For broader historical context, see 1270s and 13th century. 1275 - Events. 1275 - Europe. April 22 - The first of the Statutes of Westminster are passed by the English parliament, establishing a series of laws in its 51 clauses, including equal treatment of rich and poor, free and fair elections, and definition of bailable and non-bailable offenses. Eleanor de Montfort is captured by pirates in the employ of Edward I of England to prevent her marriage to L ...

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1240s 1250s 1260s - 1270s - 1280s 1290s 1300s 1280 1281 1282 1283 1284 1285 1286 1287 1288 1289 The 1280s is the decade starting January 1, 1280 and ending December 31, 1289. Europe in the 1280s was marked by naval warfare on the Mediterranean Sea and consolidation of power by the major states. Ongoing struggles over the control of Sicily provoked lengthy naval warfare: after the Sicilian Vespers rebellion, the French Angevins struggled against Aragon for control of the island. King Rudolph I of G ...

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For broader historical context, see 1270s and 13th century. 1278 - Events. August 26 - Kings Rudolph I of Germany and Ladislaus IV of Hungary defeat King Otakar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield, a match of over 80,000 men and the largest battle of knights in the middle ages. The battle ends a power struggle between Rudolph and Otakar over the fate of central Europe, and Rudolph's Habsburg family will continue to rule Austria and other captured territories until the end of World War I ...

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For broader historical context, see 1270s and 13th century. 1277 - Events. Burma's Pagan empire begins to disintegrate after being defeated by Kublai Khan at the Battle of Ngasaunggyan, at Yunnan near the Chinese border. Some 50,000 leaders and citizens of the Southern Song Dynasty of China become the first recorded inhabitants of Macau, as they seek refuge from the invading Mongol Empire. They also stayed for a short period in Kowloon. Some hundred years later the place where they st ...

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For broader historical context, see 1270s and 13th century. 1276 - Events. February - The court of the Southern Song Dynasty of China and hundreds of thousands of its citizens flee from Hangzhou to Fujian and then Guangdong in an effort to escape an invasion by the Mongol Empire. March 9 - Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City. Ravensburg also does in the same year. June - King Rudolph I of Germany declares war on King Otakar II of Bohemia, a political rival; by November, Ot ...

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This page indexes the individual year in architecture pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point. 21st century in architecture: 2000s 20th century in architecture: 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 19th century in architecture: 1800s - 1810s - 1820s - 1830s - 1840s - 1850s - 1860s - 1870s - 1880s - 1890s ...

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Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century Decades: 1240s 1250s 1260s 1270s 1280s - 1290s - 1300s 1310s 1320s 1330s 1340s Years: 1290 1291 1292 1293 1294 1295 1296 1297 1298 1299 Events and Trends Category: 1290s ...

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For broader historical context, see 1270s and 13th century. 1272 - Events. Mamluk sultan Baibars of Egypt invades the weakening kingdom of Makuria to the south. Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples, occupies Durres 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. King Edward I of England departs for England from the failed Ninth Crusade and ...

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For broader historical context, see 1270s and 13th century. 1279 - Events. 1279 - Europe. March 5 - Lithuanian forces led by Traidenis defeat the Teutonic Knights in the Battle of Aizkraukle. 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 ...

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The pagan revolt of the Pliska nobility led by King Vladimir in 892 was decisive for the future destiny of the city. In 893 Vladimir was dethroned and the new ruler, Simeon the Great, decided to move the capital of the state from the still somewhat pagan Pliska to Preslav. In the following 80 years the city developed rapidly, turning into a centre not only of Bulgarian politics and diplomacy, but also of culture, literature and the fine arts. A chronicler mentioned that it took Simeon 28 years to establish and build up his new capital. Arche ...

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The empire was separated into four khanates, each ruled by a separate khan and overseen by the Great Khan. The Kipchak Khanate (also called the Golden Horde) ruled Russia; the Ilkhanate ruled the Middle East, the Chagatai Khanate ruled over western Asia, and the Great Khanate controlled Mongolia and eventually China. The empire reached its greatest extent under Kublai with his conquest of China, completed with the final defeat of the Song Dynasty in 1279. He ruled better than his predecessors, promoting economic growth with the rebuilding of ...

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