1283
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1250s 1260s 1270s – 1280s – 1290s 1300s 1310s |
| Years: | 1280 1281 1282 – 1283 – 1284 1285 1286 |
| 1283 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1283 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1283 MCCLXXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2035 |
| Armenian calendar | 732 ԹՎ ՉԼԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -561 – -560 |
| Bengali calendar | 690 |
| Berber calendar | 2233 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1827 |
| Burmese calendar | 645 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6791 – 6792 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬午年十二月初一日 (3919/3979-12-1) — to —
癸未年十二月十二日(3920/3980-12-12) |
| Coptic calendar | 999 – 1000 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1275 – 1276 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5043 – 5044 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1339 – 1340 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1205 – 1206 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4384 – 4385 |
| Holocene calendar | 11283 |
| Iranian calendar | 661 – 662 |
| Islamic calendar | 681 – 682 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3616 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1826 |
Contents |
[edit] Events
[edit] Europe
- June 1 – The young Duke Rudolph II of Austria is forced to yield his claim on the Duchies of Austria and Styria to his elder brother, Albert I of Germany, under the Treaty of Rheinfelden.
- July 8 – At the naval Battle of Malta at Valletta, an Angevin fleet sent to help put down a rebellion on Malta is defeated by the fleet of Roger of Lauria.
- October 3 – Death by hanging, drawing and quartering is first used as a form of capital punishment (for the newly created crime of high treason) by King Edward I of England in his execution of Dafydd ap Gruffydd, the last ruler of an independent Wales, at Shrewsbury.
- Construction of Caernarfon Castle, Conwy Castle, and Harlech Castle is begun in Wales by King Edward I of England as a system of defenses against possible future Welsh uprisings.
- King Philip III of France causes a mass migration of Jews when he outlaws their residence in the small villages and rural localities of France.
- The E. codex of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of Portuguese musical manuscripts, is dated to between 1280 and 1283.
- The Libro de los juegos, an early European treatise on board games (including chess, dice, and a version of backgammon), is commissioned by King Alfonso X of Castile between 1251 and 1283.
- Jakub Swinka becomes archbishop of Gniezno.
[edit] Asia
- King Ramkhamhaeng the Great of the Sukhothai kingdom creates the Thai alphabet, according to tradition.
- Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty invades the Khmer Empire of present-day Cambodia; King Jayavarman VIII decides to pay tribute rather than fight the invasion, buying peace and preserving the empire.
- Construction on the northern section of the Grand Canal of China is completed.
- The city of Guiyang is founded in China.
- An earthquake destroys two thirds of the cave city of Vardzia, Georgia.
[edit] Births
- Date uncertain – Margaret, the Maid of Norway (d. 1290)
[edit] Deaths
- January 9 – Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (executed; b. 1236)
- October 3 – Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Wales (executed)
- Philip, Crown Prince of Constantinople, Persian poet (b. 1243)
- Piotr z Bogorii i Skotnik, Polish nobleman
