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Year 1276 (MCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

= By place =

== Europe ==

  • Spring
  • Sultan Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd al-Haqq and Muhammad II, ruler of Granada, agree to a truce with King Alfonso X of Castile ("the Wise") for two years. Before Abu Yusuf leaves, Muhammad's secretary addresses a poem to Abu Yusuf, expressing fear of Castile's power and appealing for Marinid's continued support. Later, Abu Yusuf lands at Alcázar Seguir on January 19. This ending the first Marinid invasion in Al-Andalus (modern Spain).{{cite book|first=Joseph F.|last=O'Callaghan|year=2011|title=The Gibraltar Crusade: Castile and the battle for the Strait|location=Philadelphia|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|pages=69, 71|isbn=978-0-8122-2302-6}}
  • King Edward I of England ("Longshanks") orders the people of Bayonne in Gascony (as part of the only English possessions in France) to provide Castile with warships "to resist the Saracens by sea", but excuses himself from personal participation against the Marinid invasion in Spain because of his wars in Wales and his plan to lead a Crusade to the Holy Land.
  • June – King Rudolf I of Germany declares war on his rival Ottokar II of Bohemia. After 6 months of campaigning, Ottokar surrenders all his lands (including Austria and Styria) except Bohemia and Moravia. Rudolf makes Vienna his capital, marking the beginning of the House of Habsburg, which will last until 1918.Hywel Williams (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History, p. 148. {{ISBN|0-304-35730-8}}.

== Africa ==

== Asia ==

  • Spring – The court of the Southern Song dynasty of China and hundreds of thousands of its citizens flee from Hangzhou to Fujian, and then Guangdong, in an effort to escape a Mongol invasion under Kublai Khan.
  • June 15 – Remnants of the Chinese Song court in Fuzhou province conduct the coronation ceremony for Prince Zhao Shi to become Emperor Emperor Duanzong (until 1278).
  • The mountain fortress Alamut Castle ("Eagle's Nest") is again captured by the Mongols from a Nizari force under Shams al-Din Muhammad.Wasserman, James (2001). The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of heaven, p. 115. {{ISBN|978-1-59477-873-5}}.Virani, Shafique N. (2007). The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, a Search for Salvation, p. 32. Oxford University Press, USA. {{ISBN|978-0-19-531173-0}}.

== The Americas ==

  • A severe 23-year drought begins to affect the Grand Canyon area, eventually forcing the agriculture-dependent Puebloans (or Anasazi) to migrate out of the region.O'Connor, Letitia Burns (1992). The Grand Canyon, pp. 16–19, 30–32. Los Angeles: Perpetua Press. {{ISBN|0-88363-969-6}}.

= By topic =

== Cities and towns ==

== Culture ==

  • Merton College, Oxford, is first recorded as having a collection of books, making its Library the world's oldest in continuous daily use.{{cite web|title=Library & Archives - History|url=http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/aboutmerton/library8.shtml|publisher=Merton College|location=Oxford|access-date=2012-05-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513022654/http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/aboutmerton/library8.shtml|archive-date=May 13, 2012|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}

== Economy ==

  • Henry of Ghent (or Henricus) becomes the last major theologian openly to consider annuities as a usurious contract. The end of the debate allows for the expansion of the budding practice of renten emission, to become a staple of public finance in northwestern Europe.{{cite journal|last=Munro|first=John H.|title=The Medieval Origins of the Financial Revolution|journal=The International History Review|year=2003|volume=15|issue=3|pages=506–562}}

== Religion ==

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