1271

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[change] Events

[change] Europe

• July 2 - Kings Otakar II of Bohemia and Stephen V of Hungary sign the first Peace of Pressburg, settling territorial claims following the failed invasion of Hungary by Otakar II.
• September 1 - Pope Gregory X succeeds Pope Clement IV as the 184th popeas the compromise candidate between French and Italian cardinals, ending a three-year conclave, the longest ever.
• The County of Toulouse is returned to the crown of France.
• Marco Polo departs from Venice with his father and uncle on his famous journey to Kublai Khan's China.
• The construction of Caerphilly Castle, the largest in Wales, is completed.
• Construction of the Belaya Vezha in Belarus is begun.

[change] North Africa and the Middle East

Baibars captured the Krak des Chevaliers in Syria from the Knights Hospitaller in 1271.

• April 8 - Mamluk sultan Baibars continues his territorial expansion, capturing the strategically important castle Krak des Chevaliers from the Knights Hospitaller in present-day Syria.
• Mamluk sultan Baibars conducts an unsuccessful siege of the city of Tripoli, and also fails in an attempted naval invasion of Cyprus.
• Edward I of England and Charles of Anjou arrive in Acre, starting the Ninth Crusade against Baibars; however, they are unable to capture any territory and a peace is quickly negotiated.

[change] Asia

• September 12 - According to the followers of Nichiren Buddhism, the sect's founder, Nichiren, reaches a turning point known as hosshaku kempon as he discards his identity as a mortal priest and begins to reveal himself as a reincarnation of the Buddha.
• December 18 - Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of China.
• The Nakhi kingdom of the northern Himalayan foothills is annexed by the Yuan Dynasty.

[change] Births

• May - Joan of Acre, daughter of King Edward I of England (died 1307)