1276
year
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 |
| 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 | 阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 1402 or 1021 or 249 — to — 阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 1403 or 1022 or 250 |
Events
change- 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
change- 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