Years: 1273 1274 1275 - 1276 - 1277 1278 1279

Decades: 1240s 1250s 1260s - 1270s - 1280s 1290s 1300s

Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century 1276 state leaders

Events

• January 21 - Innocent V elected Gregory X's successor as Pope
• March 9 - Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City
• June - Rudolph I of Germany declares war on Ottokar II, king of Bohemia
• July 11, Adrian V elected Innocent V's successor as Pope
• John XXI succeeds Adrian V as Pope
• The Southern Song Dynasty court flees from Hangzhou to Fujian and then Guangdong in an effort to escape a Mongol invasion
• Peter III succeeds James I as king of Aragon; he becomes Peter I of Sicily this same year
• Stefan Dragutin succeeds Stefan Uros I as king of Serbia
• Menden is granted the rights of a city
• First mention about Gliwice

Births

• October 19 - Prince Hisaaki, 8th Kamakura shogun of Japan (d. 1328)
• Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (d. 1322)

Deaths

• January 10 - Pope Gregory X
• June 22 - Pope Innocent V
• July 27 - James I, King of Aragon (b. 1208)
• August 18 - Pope Adrian V