Years: 1276 1277 1278 - 1279 - 1280 1281 1282

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

Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century 1279 state leaders

Events

• Battle of Yamen. Mongolian Yuan Dynasty annihilated the last fleet of Chinese Song Dynasty and thus exterminated the Song Dynasty
• D. Diniz becomes king of Portugal
• King Edward I of England bans land grants to the church. A dispute with the Archbishop of Canterbury John Peckham led to the ruling in the Statute of Mortmain. This was the first act of anticlerical legislation in England.
• Nameise becomes king of Semigallians
• The Hundred Rolls of 1279

Births

Deaths

• February 16 - King Afonso III of Portugal
• September 11 - Robert Kilwardby, cardinal and philosopher