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1276

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EVENTS

January 21 - Innocent V becomes Pope .

February - The court of the Southern Song Dynasty of China and hundreds of thousands of its citizens flee from Hangzhou to Fujian and then Guangdong in an effort to escape an invasion by the Mongol Empire .

March 9 - Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City . Ravensburg also does in the same year.

June - King Rudolph I Of Germany declares war on King Otakar II Of Bohemia , a political rival; by November, Otakar II is forced to cede four important territories as demanded by the Diet of Nuremberg in 1274 .

Four different men are Pope over the course of the year, as Popes Gregory X , Innocent V , and Adrian V all die in quick succession.

The foundation stone of the Minoritenkirche in Vienna is laid by King Otakar II Of Bohemia .

Mamluk sultan Baibars conquers Al-Maris , previously part of Makuria , and annexes it into Egypt .

A severe 23-year Drought begins to affect the Grand Canyon Area , eventually forcing the agriculture-dependent Anasazi culture to migrate out of the region.

BIRTHS

October 19 - Prince Hisaaki , Japanese shogun (died 1328 )

Christopher II Of Denmark (died 1332 )

Vakhtang III Of Georgia (died 1308 )

Humphrey De Bohun, 4th Earl Of Hereford (died 1322 )

Yesün Temür Khan of the Mongol Empire (died 1328 )

Louis D'Évreux , son of King Philip III Of France

DEATHS

January 10 - Pope Gregory X

June 22 - Pope Innocent V

July 27 - King James I Of Aragon (born 1208 )

August 18 - Pope Adrian V

Guido Guinizelli , Italian poet

Vasily Of Kostroma , Grand Duke of Vladimir (born 1241 )

Kanezawa Sanetoki , Japanese member of the Hojo clan (born 1224 )

Ahmad Al-Badawi , Sufi (born 1199 )