1272

Events

* Mamluk sultan Baibars of Egypt invades the weakening kingdom of Makuria to the south.
* Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples, occupies Durrës 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 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.
* The first recorded reference is made to the game of cricket.

Births

* Bernardo Tolomei (d. 1348)
* King Frederick III of Sicily (d. 1337)
* 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
* November 16 — King Henry III of England (b. 1207)
* December 13 — Bertold von Regensburg, German preacher
* "Unknown dates"
** Bartholomeus Anglicus, English Franciscan monk and encyclopedia writer (b. before 1203)
** William of Saint-Amour, French scholastic philosopher (b. 1200): "See also ."