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Year 1272 (MCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

= By place =

== Europe ==

  • February – Charles I of Anjou, king of Sicily, occupies the city of Durrës, and establishes the Angevin Kingdom of Albania. A delegation of Albanian nobles and citizens from Durrës make their way to Charles' court.
  • February 21 – Charles signs a treaty and is proclaimed King of Albania. He promises to protect the nobles and to honor the privileges they have from the Byzantine Empire. The treaty declares the union between the Kingdom of Albania (Latin: Regnum Albanie) and the Kingdom of Sicily, under Charles' rule. He appoints Gazo Chinard as his vicar-general, and sends his Sicilian fleet to Achaea, to defend the principality against Byzantine attacks.Dunbabin, Jean (1998). Charles I of Anjou. Power, Kingship, and State-Making in Thirteenth-Century Europe, p. 91. Bloomsbury. {{ISBN|978-1-78093-767-0}}.
  • June – Marinid forces land in Spain and ravage the countryside. They kill and capture many and plunder livestock. They also attack the castle of Vejer de la Frontera in Andalusia. On hearing the news, King Alfonso X of Castile ("the Wise") abandons his meeting with Sultan Muhammad I of Granada and orders an all-out war against Granada.Joseph F. O'Callaghan (2011). The Gibraltar Crusade: Castile and the Battle for the Strait, p. 56. {{ISBN|978-0-8122-2302-6}}.
  • August 6 – King Stephen V of Hungary falls ill and is taken to Csepel Island. He dies and is succeeded by his 10-year-old son Ladislaus IV ("the Cuman"), who is being held captive in the fortress of Koprivnica in northern Croatia. His mother, Queen Elizabeth, becomes regent during the minority of her son (until 1277).John V.A. Fine Jr. (1987). The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest, p. 181. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. {{ISBN|0-472-08260-4}}.
  • August 20 – Battle of Heiloo: Floris V, count of Holland, makes an unsuccessful attack on Frisia in an attempt to recover the body of his father, William II, who was killed (16 years ago) by the Frisians near Hoogwoud (modern Netherlands).
  • November – Charles I orders his officials to take all Genoese prisoner within his territories, except for the Guelphs and to seize their property. The Sicilian fleet occupies Ajaccio on Corsica. Pope Gregory X condemns the aggressive policy of Charles and proposes that the Genoese elect Guelph officials.Steven Runciman (1958). The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century, p. 156. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|978-1-107-60474-2}}.
  • Reconquista – King Afonso III eliminates the last Moorish community in Portugal at Faro, completing the reconquest of the west of the Iberian Peninsula.

== England ==

== Levant ==

  • May 22 – King Hugh III of Cyprus ("the Great") signs a peace with Sultan Baibars, Mamluk ruler of Egypt, at Caesarea. The Kingdom of Jerusalem is guaranteed for 10 years the possession of its present lands, which consists mainly of the narrow coastal plain from Acre to Sidon, together with the right to use without hindrance the pilgrim-road to Nazareth. The County of Tripoli is safeguarded by the peace treaty.{{cite book | last = Lock | first = Peter | title = The Routledge Companion to the Crusades | publisher = Routledge | year = 2013 | isbn = 9781135131371 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=AkCKZ9Hs4-QC | page = 117}}
  • June 16 – The Lord Edward, heir to the English throne, prevents an assassination attempt on himself at Acre. A Syrian Nizari (or Assassin) supposedly sent by Baibars penetrates into the prince's chamber and stabs him with a poisoned dagger. The wound is not fatal, but Edward is seriously ill for some months. Baibars hastens to dissociate himself from the deed by sending his congratulations on the prince's escape.Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol III: The Kingdom of Acre, p. 282. {{ISBN|978-0-241-29877-0}}.
  • August 18 – Nubian forces sack the Egyptian Red Sea outpost of Aydhab and raid the southern frontier city of Aswan. In return, Baibars invades the kingdom of Makuria.David Nicolle (2005). Osprey: Acre 1291. Bloody sunset of the Crusader States, p. 13. {{ISBN|978-1-84176-862-5}}.

=== By topic ===

== Science ==

  • In astronomy, the recording of the Alfonsine tables is completed.{{Cite web|title=Mathematical Treasure: The Alfonsine Tables {{!}} Mathematical Association of America|url=https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/mathematical-treasure-the-alfonsine-tables|website=www.maa.org|access-date=2020-06-01}}

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