1283
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| Years: 1280 1281 1282 - 1283 - 1284 1285 1286 |
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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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| 1283 by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1283 MCCLXXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2036 |
| Armenian calendar | 732 ԹՎ ՉԼԲ |
| Chinese calendar | 3919/3979-12-1 (壬午年十二月初一日) — to —
3920/3980-12-12(癸未年十二月十二日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1275 – 1276 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5043 – 5044 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1338 – 1339 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1205 – 1206 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4384 – 4385 |
| Iranian calendar | 661 – 662 |
| Islamic calendar | 682 – 683 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 1943 (皇紀1943年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11283 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1826 |
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[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 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.
- 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.
[edit] Asia
- King Ramkhamhaeng the Great of the Sukhothai kingdom creates the Thai alphabet, according to tradition.
- Kublai Khan's Mongol Empire 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.
- Earthquake destroys two thirds of the cave city of Vardzia
[edit] Births
- Date uncertain - Margaret, the Maid of Norway (died 1290)
[edit] Deaths
- January 9 - Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (executed (born 1236)
- October 3 - Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Welsh Prince of Gwynedd (executed)
- Philip, Crown Prince of Constantinople, Persian poet (born 1243)
- Piotr z Bogorii i Skotnik, Polish nobleman
