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EVENTS
Europe
June 1
- The young Duke
Rudolph II Of Austria
is forced to yield his claim on the Duchies of
Austria
and
Styria
to his elder brother,
Albert I Of Germany
, under the
Treaty Of Rheinfelden
.
July 8
- At the
Naval
Battle Of Malta
at
Valletta
, an
Angevin
fleet sent to help put down a rebellion on
Malta
is defeated by the fleet of
Roger Of Lauria
.
October 3
- Death by
Drawing And Quartering
is first used as a form of
Capital Punishment
(for the newly created crime of
High Treason
) by King
Edward I Of England
in his execution of
Dafydd Ap Gruffydd
, the last ruler of an independent
Wales
.
Construction of
Caernarfon Castle
,
Conwy Castle
, and
Harlech Castle
is begun in
Wales
by King
Edward I Of England
as a system of defenses against possible future Welsh uprisings.
King
Philip III Of France
causes a mass migration of
Jew
s when he outlaws their residence in the small villages and rural localities of
France
.
The E codex of the
Cantigas De Santa Maria
, a collection of
Portuguese
musical manuscripts, is dated to between
1280
and 1283.
The
Libro De Los Juegos
, an early
Europe
an treatise on board games (including
Chess
,
Dice
, and a version of
Backgammon
), is commissioned by King
Alfonso X Of Castile
between
1251
and 1283.
Asia
King
Ramkhamhaeng The Great
of the
Sukhothai Kingdom
creates the
Thai Alphabet
, according to tradition.
Kublai Khan
's
Mongol Empire
invades the
Khmer Empire
of present-day
Cambodia
; King
Jayavarman VIII
decides to pay tribute rather than fight the invasion, buying peace and preserving the empire.
Construction on the northern section of the
Grand Canal Of China
is completed.
The city of
Guiyang
is founded in
China
.
Earthquake
destroys two thirds of the cave city of
Vardzia
BIRTHS
April 9
-
Margaret Of Scotland
(died
1290
)
DEATHS
January 9
-
Wen Tianxiang
, Chinese prime minister (executed (born
1236
)
October 3
-
Dafydd Ap Gruffydd
, Welsh Prince of Gwynedd (executed)
Philip, Crown Prince Of Constantinople
, Persian poet (born
1243
)
Piotr Z Bogorii I Skotnik
, Polish nobleman