1279

1279 (MCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1279th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 279th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 13th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1270s decade. As of the start of 1279, 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:	1276 1277 1278 – 1279 – 1280 1281 1282

1279 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1279 MCCLXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2032
Armenian calendar	728 ԹՎ ՉԻԸ
Assyrian calendar	6029
Balinese saka calendar	1200–1201
Bengali calendar	686
Berber calendar	2229
English Regnal year	7 Edw. 1 – 8 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1823
Burmese calendar	641
Byzantine calendar	6787–6788
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3975 or 3915     — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3976 or 3916
Coptic calendar	995–996
Discordian calendar	2445
Ethiopian calendar	1271–1272
Hebrew calendar	5039–5040
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1335–1336
- Shaka Samvat	1200–1201
- Kali Yuga	4379–4380
Holocene calendar	11279
Igbo calendar	279–280
Iranian calendar	657–658
Islamic calendar	677–678
Japanese calendar	Kōan 2 (弘安２年)
Javanese calendar	1189–1190
Julian calendar	1279 MCCLXXIX
Korean calendar	3612
Minguo calendar	633 before ROC 民前633年
Nanakshahi calendar	−189
Thai solar calendar	1821–1822
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Tiger) 1405 or 1024 or 252     — to — ས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Earth-Hare) 1406 or 1025 or 253

Events

• March 5 – Lithuanian forces led by Traidenis defeat the Teutonic Knights in the Battle of Aizkraukle.
• The first of the Statutes of Mortmain are passed under king Edward I of England, which prevents land from passing into possession of the church.
• The second of two main surveys of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086, is begun; it lasts until 1280.
• Al-Razi's important medical writings are translated into Latin by Faraj ben Salim some 350 years after Al-Razi's death.
• The Royal Mint of England moves into the Tower of London.
• Haapsalu town (Estonia) is founded.