1276

This article is about the year 1276.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1240s  1250s  1260s  – 1270s –  1280s  1290s  1300s
Years:	1273 1274 1275 – 1276 – 1277 1278 1279

1276 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1276 in poetry

1276 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1276 MCCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2029
Armenian calendar	725 ԹՎ ՉԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	6026
Bengali calendar	683
Berber calendar	2226
English Regnal year	4 Edw. 1 – 5 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1820
Burmese calendar	638
Byzantine calendar	6784–6785
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3972 or 3912     — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3973 or 3913
Coptic calendar	992–993
Discordian calendar	2442
Ethiopian calendar	1268–1269
Hebrew calendar	5036–5037
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1332–1333
- Shaka Samvat	1198–1199
- Kali Yuga	4377–4378
Holocene calendar	11276
Igbo calendar	276–277
Iranian calendar	654–655
Islamic calendar	674–675
Japanese calendar	Kenji 2 (建治２年)
Julian calendar	1276 MCCLXXVI
Korean calendar	3609
Minguo calendar	636 before ROC 民前636年
Thai solar calendar	1818–1819

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

It is the only Year of Four Popes.

Events

By area

Africa

• Mamluk sultan Baibars conquers Al-Maris, previously part of Makuria, and annexes it into Egypt.

Americas

• A severe 23-year drought begins to affect the Grand Canyon area, eventually forcing the agriculture-dependent Anasazi culture to migrate out of the region.

Asia

• February – 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 an invasion by Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty.
• June 14 – Remnants of the Song Chinese court in Fuzhou province conduct the coronation ceremony for the Prince Zhao Shi to become Emperor Duanzong of Song.

Europe

• March 9 – Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City. Ravensburg also does in the same year.
• June – King Rudolph I of Germany declares war on King Otakar II of Bohemia, a political rival; by November, Otakar II is forced to cede four important territories as demanded by the diet of Nuremberg in 1274.
• Stefan Dragutin of Serbia becomes King of Serbia.
• Mudejar rebellion in Valencia (put down in 1278).

By topic

Culture

• Merton College, Oxford, is first recorded as having a collection of books, making its Library the world's oldest in continuous daily use.

Economics

• Henry of Ghent becomes the last major theologian to openly consider annuities as 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 north-western Europe.

Religion

• January 21 – Pope Innocent V succeeds Pope Gregory X as the 185th pope.
• July 11 – Pope Adrian V (also referred to as Hadrian) succeeds Pope Innocent V as the 186th pope.
• September 13 – Pope John XXI succeeds Pope Adrian V as the 187th pope, becoming the fourth man this calendar year to hold the office of pope.
• The foundation stone of the Minoritenkirche in Vienna is laid by King Otakar II of Bohemia.

Births

• October 19 – Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1328)
• Christopher II of Denmark (d. 1332)
• Vakhtang III of Georgia (d. 1308)
• Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford (d. 1322)
• Louis d'Évreux, son of King Philip III of France

Deaths

• January 10 – Pope Gregory X
• June 22 – Pope Innocent V
• July 27 – King James I of Aragon (b. 1208)
• August 18 – Pope Adrian V
• Guido Guinizelli, Italian poet
• Vasily of Kostroma, Grand Duke of Vladimir (b. 1241)
• Kanezawa Sanetoki, Japanese member of the Hōjō clan (b. 1224)
• Ahmad al-Badawi, Sufi (b. 1199)