1273

1273 (MCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1273rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 273rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 13th century, and the 4th year of the 1270s decade. As of the start of 1273, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1240s  1250s  1260s  – 1270s –  1280s  1290s  1300s
Years:	1270 1271 1272 – 1273 – 1274 1275 1276

1273 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1273 MCCLXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2026
Armenian calendar	722 ԹՎ ՉԻԲ
Assyrian calendar	6023
Balinese saka calendar	1194–1195
Bengali calendar	680
Berber calendar	2223
English Regnal year	1 Edw. 1 – 2 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1817
Burmese calendar	635
Byzantine calendar	6781–6782
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 3969 or 3909     — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3970 or 3910
Coptic calendar	989–990
Discordian calendar	2439
Ethiopian calendar	1265–1266
Hebrew calendar	5033–5034
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1329–1330
- Shaka Samvat	1194–1195
- Kali Yuga	4373–4374
Holocene calendar	11273
Igbo calendar	273–274
Iranian calendar	651–652
Islamic calendar	671–672
Japanese calendar	Bun'ei 10 (文永１０年)
Javanese calendar	1183–1184
Julian calendar	1273 MCCLXXIII
Korean calendar	3606
Minguo calendar	639 before ROC 民前639年
Nanakshahi calendar	−195
Thai solar calendar	1815–1816
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Water-Monkey) 1399 or 1018 or 246     — to — ཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Water-Bird) 1400 or 1019 or 247

Events

Europe

• September 29 – Rudolph I of Germany is elected King of Germany over rival candidate King Otakar II of Bohemia, ending the Interregnum; Otakar refuses to acknowledge Rudolph as the new king, leading to the outbreak of war in 1276. Rudolph is the first of many Habsburgs to hold the throne.
• December 6 – Thomas Aquinas quit writing Summa Theologica — a master work of Catholic theology — leaving it unfinished after having a mystical experience during Mass.
• King Otakar II of Bohemia captures Bratislava from Hungary.

The Middle East

• December – Followers of the recently deceased Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi establish the Sufi order of the Whirling Dervishes in the city of Konya (in present-day Turkey).
• The "Holy Redeemer" khachkar, believed to be one of the finest examples of the art form, is carved in Haghpat, Armenia, by Vahram.
• The Constantinople suburb of Beyoğlu (then known as Pera) is given to the Republic of Genoa by the Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus in return for Genoa's support of the Empire after the Fourth Crusade and the sacking of Constantinople.

Asia

• January 31 – The six-year long battle of Xiangyang ends as commander of the Song Dynasty's forces surrender to Kublai Khan. The battle is the first in which firearms are used in combat.
• In Korea, the Sambyeolcho Rebellion against the Goryeo Dynasty (a puppet government of the Mongol Empire) ends as rebel forces are defeated by combined Mongol and Goryeo forces.

Births

• July 15 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (died 1352)
• November 24 – Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (died 1284)
• Abu al-Fida, Arab historian (died 1331)
• David VIII of Georgia (died 1311)

Deaths

• December 17 – Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet and Sufi mystic (born 1207)
• Baldwin II of Constantinople, last Latin Emperor of Constantinople (born 1217)