1273

Decades: 1220s 1230s 1240s 1250s 1260s - 1270s - 1280s 1290s 1300s 1310s 1320s

Years: 1268 1269 1270 1271 1272 - 1273 - 1274 1275 1276 1277 1278

Events

• St. Thomas Aquinas completes his Summa Theologica.
• Rudolph of Hapsburg is elected king of Germany.
• The Latin Empire of Constantinople officially falls with Baldwin II's death.
• The battle of Xiangyang (in which the first combat use of firearms in history occurs) concludes.
• The Sambyeolcho Rebellion ends.
• The order of the Whirling Dervishes is founded by the followers of the late Rumi.
• Henry III of Champagne is crowned king of Navarre.

Births

• Abulfeda, geographer

Deaths

• Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (poet and Sufi mystic) on December 17.
• Baldwin II of Constantinople
• Hojo Masamura

Monarchs/Presidents

• Aragon - James I King of Aragon and count of Barcelona (reigned from 1213 to 1276)

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