1272

This article is about the year 1272.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1240s  1250s  1260s  – 1270s –  1280s  1290s  1300s
Years:	1269 1270 1271 – 1272 – 1273 1274 1275

1272 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1272 in poetry

1272 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1272 MCCLXXII
Ab urbe condita	2025
Armenian calendar	721 ԹՎ ՉԻԱ
Assyrian calendar	6022
Bengali calendar	679
Berber calendar	2222
English Regnal year	56 Hen. 3 – 1 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1816
Burmese calendar	634
Byzantine calendar	6780–6781
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 3968 or 3908     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 3969 or 3909
Coptic calendar	988–989
Discordian calendar	2438
Ethiopian calendar	1264–1265
Hebrew calendar	5032–5033
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1328–1329
- Shaka Samvat	1194–1195
- Kali Yuga	4373–4374
Holocene calendar	11272
Igbo calendar	272–273
Iranian calendar	650–651
Islamic calendar	670–671
Japanese calendar	Bun'ei 9 (文永９年)
Julian calendar	1272 MCCLXXII
Korean calendar	3605
Minguo calendar	640 before ROC 民前640年
Thai solar calendar	1814–1815

Year 1272 (MCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• May 12 – The Mamluk sultan Baybars and the Kingdom of Jerusalem conclude a ten-year truce at Caesarea.
• Baybars invades the weakening kingdom of Makuria to the south of Egypt.
• Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples, occupies Durazzo 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.
• November 16 – Edward I becomes King of England.
• King Alphonso III of Portugal eliminates the last Moorish community in Portugal at Faro.
• 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 is made to the game of cricket.

Births

• December 13 – King Frederick III of Sicily (d. 1337)
• date unknown – Bernardo Tolomei, theologian (d. 1348)
• Otto I of Hesse (approximate date; d. 1328)

Deaths

• March 17 – Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (b. 1220)
• March 18 – John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel (b. 1246)
• April 2 – Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1209)
• April 27 – Saint Zita
• August 6 – King Stephen V of Hungary
• October 27 or October 30 – Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1213)
• November 16 – King Henry III of England (b. 1207)
• December 13 – Bertold von Regensburg, German preacher
• Bartholomeus Anglicus, English Franciscan monk and encyclopedia writer (b. before 1203)
• William of Saint-Amour, French scholastic philosopher (b. 1200)
• William of Sherwood, English logician (approximate date; b. c.1200)