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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 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.

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 )

August 6 - King Stephen V Of Hungary

November 16 - King Henry III Of England (born 1207 )

Bertold Von Regensburg , German preacher

William Of Saint-Amour , French scholastic philosopher (born 1200 )

Saint Zita