1280
1280 was a leap year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar. It was the 1280th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 280th year of the 2nd millennium, the 80th year of the 13th century, and the first year of the 1280s decade.
Events
- June 23 - Reconquista: Battle of Moclín - Troops of the Emirate of Granada defeat those of the Kingdom of Castile and Kingdom of León.
- September 27 - King Magnus Ladulås of Sweden founds a Swedish nobility by enacting a law accepting a contribution of a cavalry member in lieu of ordinary tax payments.
- Tsar Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria flees from Tarnovo, ending the Asen dynasty in Bulgaria.
- Syria attempts to secede from the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, but Al Mansur Qalawun defeats the rebels and keeps Syria within the Egyptian sultanate.
- Turin is conquered by Thomas III of Savoy, becoming the capital of the House of Savoy.
- Construction on the northern section of the Grand Canal of China has begun.
- The final expansion of Lincoln Cathedral in England is completed.
- The second of two main surveys of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow-up to the Domesday Book, is finished; it began in 1279.
- Approximate date
- * The ancestors of the Māori people from eastern Polynesia become the first human settlers of New Zealand.
- * The Wolf minimum of solar activity begins.