1272

1272 (MCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1272nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 272nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 13th century, and the 3rd year of the 1270s decade. As of the start of 1272, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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 becomes King when his father, King Henry III, dies.
• 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 of cricket dates back to 1272.

Births

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

Deaths

• March 17 – Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (born 1220)
• March 18 – John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel (born 1246)
• April 2 – Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1209)
• April 27 – Saint Zita
• August 6 – King Stephen V of Hungary
• November 16 – King Henry III of England (born 1207)
• December 13 – Bertold von Regensburg, German preacher
• William of Saint-Amour, French scholastic philosopher (born 1200)