1283
Year 1283 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- June 1 - Treaty of Rheinfelden: The 11-year-old Rudolf II is forced to relinquish his claim on the Duchies of Austria and Styria to his elder brother, Albert I. According to the terms of the agreement, concluded at the Imperial City of Rheinfelden, Rudolf receives some territories in Further Austria in return.
- June 29 - Sultan Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd al-Haqq sets out for a punitive expedition and marches from Córdoba to Jaén and Úbeda, and then northwards through difficult terrain. On the third day after crossing al-burt, the Marinid forces attack Montiel and Almedina.
- July 8 - Battle of Malta: An Aragonese fleet under Admiral Roger of Lauria attacks and defeats the Angevin ships in the Grand Harbour, sent to help put down a rebellion on Malta. Lauria lands his troops at the harbour and after two days raises his banner on the fortified city of Mdina.
- The first regulated Catalan Courts are reunited by King Peter III, for the whole Principality of Catalonia. It became one of the first medieval parliaments that bans the royal power to create legislation unilaterally.
- King Philip III of France outlaws Jews from residence in the small villages and rural localities of France, causing a mass migration.
- An earthquake destroys two thirds of the cave city of Vardzia, Georgia.
British Isles
- January 2 - Most of Dublin, including St. Patrick's Cathedral, is burned in a fire.
- January 18 - King Edward I of England captures Dolwyddelan Castle in North Wales from the Welsh.
- April 25 - The last independent Welsh stronghold, Castell y Bere, is surrendered by Cynfrig ap Madog to the English.
- June 28 - A parliament of England summoned by Edward I to assemble at Shrewsbury Abbey to decide the fate of the Welsh prince Dafydd ap Gruffydd is the first to include commoners.
- October 3 - The last ruler of an independent Wales, Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Wales, is executed in Shrewsbury, the first prominent person in history to be hanged, drawn and quartered, as capital punishment for the newly created crime of high treason.
- Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd: Construction of Caernarfon Castle, Conwy Castle and Harlech Castle in Wales by Edward I of England begins as a system of defenses against possible future Welsh uprisings.
Levant
- June - Qalawun, Mamluk ruler of Egypt, signs a peace treaty for 10 years with the Crusader States at Caesarea. It guarantees the Crusaders the possession of the territory from the Ladder of Tyre, north of Acre, to Mount Carmel and Atlit. But Tyre and Beirut are excluded. The right of free pilgrimage to Nazareth is permitted for the Christians.
Africa
- Abu Ishaq Ibrahim I, ruler of the Hafsid Sultanate, is overthrown by the Bedouin rebellion, led by Abd al-Aziz I.
Asia
- February 13-14 - Battle of Thị Nại Bay: A Mongol-led Yuan expeditionary force lands on the beach, near Champa's capital Vijaya in Vietnam. Despite being outnumbered, the Yuan invaders break the Cham defensive line and force King Indravarman V to retreat to the Western Highlands, where he wages a successful guerrilla campaign against the occupying Yuan forces.
- Mongol invasion of Burma: Mongol forces besiege the fortress at Ngasaunggyan on September 23. The Burmese garrison withstands the siege for two months, but finally falls to the invaders on December 3. The defeat breaks the morale of the Burmese defenses. Kaungsin, the next fortress in line, falls just six days later.
- Mongol forces invade the Khmer Empire. King Jayavarman VIII decides to pay tribute rather than fight the invasion, buying peace and preserving the empire.
- Ram Khamhaeng, ruler of the Sukhothai Kingdom, creates the Thai alphabet during his reign.
By topic
The arts, culture and literature
- The Libro de los juegos, an early European treatise on board games, is commissioned by King Alfonso X of Castile .
- Ramon Llull, Spanish theologian, writes Blanquerna, the first major work of literature written in Catalan, and perhaps the first European novel.
Markets
- The German city of Goslar starts making efforts to redeem its already issued annuities, a sure indication of financial difficulty, and maybe an early sign of the 13th century crisis.