1283 Totally Explained

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Years: 1280 1281 1282 - 1283 - 1284 1285 1286
Decades: 1250s 1260s 1270s - 1280s - 1290s 1300s 1310s
Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century

Events

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 hanging, 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, at Shrewsbury.
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.
Jakub Swinka becomes archbishop of Gniezno.

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.

An earthquake destroys two thirds of the cave city of Vardzia, Georgia.

Births

Date uncertain - Margaret, the Maid of Norway (d. 1290)

Deaths

January 9 - Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (executed; b. 1236)

October 3 - Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Welsh Prince of Gwynedd (executed)

Philip, Crown Prince of Constantinople, Persian poet (b. 1243)

Piotr z Bogorii i Skotnik, Polish nobleman

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