1272

1272 (MCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1272nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 272nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 13th century, and the 3rd year of the 1270s decade. As of the start of 1272, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

1272 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1272 MCCLXXII
Ab urbe condita	2025
Armenian calendar	721 ԹՎ ՉԻԱ
Assyrian calendar	6022
Balinese saka calendar	1193–1194
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	1193–1194
- Kali Yuga	4372–4373
Holocene calendar	11272
Igbo calendar	272–273
Iranian calendar	650–651
Islamic calendar	670–671
Japanese calendar	Bun'ei 9 (文永９年)
Javanese calendar	1182–1183
Julian calendar	1272 MCCLXXII
Korean calendar	3605
Minguo calendar	640 before ROC 民前640年
Nanakshahi calendar	−196
Thai solar calendar	1814–1815
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Sheep) 1398 or 1017 or 245     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Water-Monkey) 1399 or 1018 or 246

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.
• The first recorded reference of cricket dates back to 1272.

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)
• April 27 – Saint Zita
• August 6 – King Stephen V of Hungary
• November 16 – King Henry III of England (born 1207)
• December 13 – Bertold von Regensburg, German preacher
• William of Saint-Amour, French scholastic philosopher (born 1200)