1279

Events

Europe

• March 5 - Battle of Aizkraukle: Lithuanian forces led by Traidenis defeat the Teutonic Knights.
• 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 in 1086, is begun; it lasts until 1280.
• Al-Razi\'s important medical writings are translated into Latin by Faraj ben Salim, some 350 years after Al-Razi\'s death.
• The Royal Mint of England moves into the Tower of London.
• The town of Haapsalu, Estonia is founded.

Asia

• March 19 - Battle of Yamen: Kublai Khan\'s Mongol Yuan Dynasty defeats and ends the Song Dynasty, completing the Mongol conquest of China.
• October 12 - The Dai-Gohonzon, the supreme object of veneration of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism, is inscribed by Nichiren.
• A Mongol diplomatic party sent by Kublai Khan to Japan is killed by Japan\'s regent Hōjō Tokimune, leading to a second invasion attempt by the Mongols in 1281.
• The Chola Dynasty of South India falls under attacks by the Hoysala Empire and Pandyan Kingdom.
• Mamluk sultan Baraka Khan and emir Qalawun of Egypt invade Armenia; a revolt in Egypt while they are away forces Baraka to abdicate and allows Qalawun to become sultan.

Births

• Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1342)

Deaths

• February 16 - King Afonso III of Portugal (b. 1210)
• March - Zhang Shijie, Chinese admiral and official
• March 19 - Emperor Bing of Song China (b. 1271)
• April 14 - Duke Boleslaus of Greater Poland
• September 11 - Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury
• December 7 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (b. 1226)
• Walter Giffard, Lord Chancellor of England and archbishop
• Jeanne of Dammartin, Queen consort of Castile and León (b. 1216)

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