1280

This article is about the year 1280.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1250s  1260s  1270s  – 1280s –  1290s  1300s  1310s
Years:	1277 1278 1279 – 1280 – 1281 1282 1283

1280 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1280 in poetry

1280 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1280 MCCLXXX
Ab urbe condita	2033
Armenian calendar	729 ԹՎ ՉԻԹ
Assyrian calendar	6030
Bengali calendar	687
Berber calendar	2230
English Regnal year	8 Edw. 1 – 9 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1824
Burmese calendar	642
Byzantine calendar	6788–6789
Chinese calendar	己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3976 or 3916     — to — 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 3977 or 3917
Coptic calendar	996–997
Discordian calendar	2446
Ethiopian calendar	1272–1273
Hebrew calendar	5040–5041
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1336–1337
- Shaka Samvat	1202–1203
- Kali Yuga	4381–4382
Holocene calendar	11280
Igbo calendar	280–281
Iranian calendar	658–659
Islamic calendar	678–679
Japanese calendar	Kōan 3 (弘安３年)
Julian calendar	1280 MCCLXXX
Korean calendar	3613
Minguo calendar	632 before ROC 民前632年
Thai solar calendar	1822–1823

Year 1280 (MCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• June 23 – Reconquista – Battle of Moclín: Troops of the Emirate of Granada defeat those of the Kingdom of Castile and Kingdom of León.
• Construction on the northern section of the Grand Canal of China is begun.
• The final expansion of Lincoln Cathedral in England is completed.
• King Magnus III 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.
• The second of two main surveys of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086, is completed; it began in 1279.
• Turin is conquered by Thomas III of Savoy, becoming the capital of the House of Savoy.
• Approximate date
  • First human colonisation of New Zealand, by Māori people from eastern Polynesia.
  • The Wolf minimum of solar activity begins.

Births

• Birger of Sweden (d. 1321)
• Wu Zhen, Chinese painter (d. 1354)

Deaths

• February 10 – Margaret II, Countess of Flanders (b. 1202)
• May 9 – Magnus VI of Norway
• August 22 – Pope Nicholas III (b. 1218)
• November 15 – Albertus Magnus, German theologian