1273

This article is about the year 1273.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1240s  1250s  1260s  – 1270s –  1280s  1290s  1300s
Years:	1270 1271 1272 – 1273 – 1274 1275 1276

1273 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1273 in poetry

1273 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1273 MCCLXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2026
Armenian calendar	722 ԹՎ ՉԻԲ
Assyrian calendar	6023
Bengali calendar	680
Berber calendar	2223
English Regnal year	1 Edw. 1 – 2 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1817
Burmese calendar	635
Byzantine calendar	6781–6782
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 3969 or 3909     — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3970 or 3910
Coptic calendar	989–990
Discordian calendar	2439
Ethiopian calendar	1265–1266
Hebrew calendar	5033–5034
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1329–1330
- Shaka Samvat	1195–1196
- Kali Yuga	4374–4375
Holocene calendar	11273
Igbo calendar	273–274
Iranian calendar	651–652
Islamic calendar	671–672
Japanese calendar	Bun'ei 10 (文永１０年)
Julian calendar	1273 MCCLXXIII
Korean calendar	3606
Minguo calendar	639 before ROC 民前639年
Thai solar calendar	1815–1816

Year 1273 (MCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• September 29 – Rudolph I of Germany is elected King of Germany over rival candidate King Otakar II of Bohemia, ending the Interregnum; Otakar refuses to acknowledge Rudolph as the new king, leading to the outbreak of war in 1276. Rudolph is the first of many Habsburgs to hold the throne.
• December 6 – Thomas Aquinas quits his writing of Summa Theologica — a master work of Catholic theology — leaving it unfinished after having a mystical experience during Mass.
• The Constantinople suburb of Galata is given to the Republic of Genoa by the Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, in return for Genoa's support of the Empire after the Fourth Crusade and the sacking of Constantinople.
• King Otakar II of Bohemia captures Bratislava from Hungary.
• The Congregatio Regni tocius Sclavonie Generalis with its decisions (statuta et constitutiones), is the oldest surviving document written by the Croatian parliament.
• Alfonso X of Castile creates and grants privileges to the Mesta to promote the woollen industry.

Middle East

• July – The Sultan Baybars captures the last remaining stronghold of the Hashashin sect, al-Kahf Castle.
• December – Followers of the recently deceased Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi establish the Sufi order of the Whirling Dervishes in the city of Konya (in present-day Turkey).
• The "Holy Redeemer" khachkar, believed to be one of the finest examples of the art form, is carved in Haghpat, Armenia, by Vahram.

Asia

• January 31 – The 6-year-long battle of Xiangyang ends as the commander of the Song Dynasty's forces surrender to Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty. The battle is the first in which firearms are used in combat.
• In Korea, the Sambyeolcho Rebellion against the Goryeo Dynasty (a puppet government of the Yuan Dynasty) ends as rebel forces are defeated by combined Yuan and Goryeo forces.

Births

• July 15 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (d. 1352)
• November 24 – Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (d. 1284)
• November – Abu al-Fida, Arab historian (d. 1331)
• date unknown – David VIII of Georgia (d. 1311)

Deaths

• October – Baldwin II of Constantinople, last Latin Emperor of Constantinople (b. 1217)
• December 17 – Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet and Sufi mystic (b. 1207)