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| Years: 1278 1279 1280 - 1281 - 1282 1283 1284 |
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| Decades: 1250s 1260s 1270s - 1280s - 1290s 1300s 1310s |
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| Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century |
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| 1281 by topic | |
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| Art and literature | |
| 1281 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1281 MCCLXXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2034 |
| Armenian calendar | 730 ԹՎ ՉԼ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -563 – -562 |
| Berber calendar | 2231 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1825 |
| Burmese calendar | 643 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6789 – 6790 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚辰年十二月初九日 (3917/3977-12-9) — to —
辛巳年十一月十九日(3918/3978-11-19) |
| Coptic calendar | 997 – 998 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1273 – 1274 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5041 – 5042 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1336 – 1337 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1203 – 1204 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4382 – 4383 |
| Holocene calendar | 11281 |
| Iranian calendar | 659 – 660 |
| Islamic calendar | 679 – 680 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3614 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1824 |
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Events
Europe
- Pope Martin IV succeeds Pope Nicholas III as the 189th pope.
- Pope Martin IV authorizes a Crusade against the newly re-established Byzantine Empire in Constantinople; French and Venetian expeditions set out toward Constantinople but are forced to turn back in the following year.
Middle East
- October 29 - Second Battle of Homs: Mamluk sultan Qalawun defeats an invasion of Syria by Mongol Ilkhan Abaqa Khan.
- Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Empire, becomes bey of the Sögüt tribe in central Anatolia; in 1299 he will declare independence from the Seljuk Turks, marking the birth of the Ottoman Empire.
- An offensive by the Byzantine Empire significantly reduces the size of the Kingdom of Albania, as it recaptures land seized from the Despotate of Epirus by Charles I of Sicily 10 years earlier.
Asia
- August 12 - Battle of Kōan (Hakata Bay): The second Mongol invasion of Japan is foiled, as a large typhoon — famously called a kamikaze, or divine wind — destroys much of the combined Chinese and Korean fleet and forces, numbering over 140,000 men and 4,000 ships.
- Kublai Khan orders the burning of sacred Taoist texts, resulting in the reduction in number of volumes of the Dao Zheng (Taoist Canon) from 4,565 to 1,120.
- The Mon kingdom of Haripunchai falls as its capital Lamphun (in present-day Thailand) is captured by King Mengrai's Lannathai kingdom.
Births
- Richard De Bury, English statesman (d. 1345)
- Castruccio Castracani, duke of Lucca (d. 1328)
- Yuri III Danilovich, Grand Prince of Russia (d. 1325)
- Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (d. 1345)
- Hamdollah Mostowfi, Ilkhanid Iranian historian (d. 1349)
- Rudolph I of Bohemia (d. 1307)
Deaths
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