1276

1276 (MCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1276th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 276th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 13th century, and the 7th year of the 1270s decade. As of the start of 1276, 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:	1273 1274 1275 – 1276 – 1277 1278 1279

1276 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1276 MCCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2029
Armenian calendar	725 ԹՎ ՉԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	6026
Balinese saka calendar	1197–1198
Bengali calendar	683
Berber calendar	2226
English Regnal year	4 Edw. 1 – 5 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1820
Burmese calendar	638
Byzantine calendar	6784–6785
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3972 or 3912     — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3973 or 3913
Coptic calendar	992–993
Discordian calendar	2442
Ethiopian calendar	1268–1269
Hebrew calendar	5036–5037
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1332–1333
- Shaka Samvat	1197–1198
- Kali Yuga	4376–4377
Holocene calendar	11276
Igbo calendar	276–277
Iranian calendar	654–655
Islamic calendar	674–675
Japanese calendar	Kenji 2 (建治２年)
Javanese calendar	1186–1187
Julian calendar	1276 MCCLXXVI
Korean calendar	3609
Minguo calendar	636 before ROC 民前636年
Nanakshahi calendar	−192
Thai solar calendar	1818–1819
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Boar) 1402 or 1021 or 249     — to — མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Rat) 1403 or 1022 or 250

Events

• February – The court of the Southern Song Dynasty of China and hundreds of thousands of its citizens move from Hangzhou to Fujian and then Guangdong to get away from 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 starts a war with King Otakar II of Bohemia; by November, Otakar II has to give him four important pieces of land. (The diet of Nuremberg already decided this in 1274.)
• Four different men are pope in this year, as Popes Gregory X, Innocent V, and Adrian V all die in a short time.
• King Otakar II of Bohemia lays the foundation stone of the Minorite Church in Vienna.
• Mamluk sultan Baibars takes Al-Maris, which was part of Makuria, and goes through it into Egypt.
• A 23-year drought begins to change the Grand Canyon area. In the end, the agriculture-dependent Anasazi culture has 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