1277

This article is about the year 1277. For the number, see 1277 (number).

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

1277 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1277 in poetry

1277 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1277 MCCLXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2030
Armenian calendar	726 ԹՎ ՉԻԶ
Assyrian calendar	6027
Bengali calendar	684
Berber calendar	2227
English Regnal year	5 Edw. 1 – 6 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1821
Burmese calendar	639
Byzantine calendar	6785–6786
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3973 or 3913     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 3974 or 3914
Coptic calendar	993–994
Discordian calendar	2443
Ethiopian calendar	1269–1270
Hebrew calendar	5037–5038
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1333–1334
- Shaka Samvat	1199–1200
- Kali Yuga	4378–4379
Holocene calendar	11277
Igbo calendar	277–278
Iranian calendar	655–656
Islamic calendar	675–676
Japanese calendar	Kenji 3 (建治３年)
Julian calendar	1277 MCCLXXVII
Korean calendar	3610
Minguo calendar	635 before ROC 民前635年
Thai solar calendar	1819–1820

Year 1277 (MCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• March 7 – Condemnation of 1270: 219 philosophical and theological doctrines such as Averroism are prohibited from discussion in the University of Paris under a decree promulgated by Étienne Tempier, Bishop of Paris.
• March 18 – Charles of Anjou buys the title to the Kingdom of Jerusalem from Mary of Antioch for 1,000 bezants and an annual payment of 4,000 livres tournois.
• April 15 – Battle of Elbistan: Mamluk sultan Baibars invades the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm and defeats a Mongol army.
• November 25 – Pope Nicholas III succeeds Pope John XXI as the 188th pope.
• Battle of Ngasaunggyan: Burma's Pagan Empire begins to disintegrate after being defeated by Kublai Khan at Yunnan near the Chinese border.
• Some 50,000 leaders and citizens of the Southern Song Dynasty of China become the first recorded inhabitants of Macau, as they seek refuge from the invading armies of the Yuan Dynasty. They also stay for a short period in Kowloon. Some hundred years later the place where they stayed becomes Sung Wong Toi.
• Treaty of Aberconwy signed by Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales, and King Edward I of England, ending the First Welsh War in exchange for restrictions on Llywelyn's power.
• St George's Cross is first recorded in use as the national flag of England.
• In Japan, a 20 kilometer stone wall defending the coast of Hakata Bay in Fukuoka is completed; it is built in response to the attempted invasion by the Yuan Dynasty in 1274.

Births

• Sempad of Armenia, king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (d. c. 1310)
• Isabella of Mar, first wife of Robert Bruce (approximate date; d. 1296)

Deaths

• January–March – Philip of Sicily, titular King of Thessalonica
• March 3 – Folke Johansson Ängel, Archbishop of Uppsala since 1274
• May 1 – Stefan Uros I of Serbia
• May 20 – Pope John XXI (b. 1215)
• July 1 – Baibars, Mameluk sultan of Egypt (b. 1223)
• August 2 – Mu'in al-Din Sulaiman Pervane, Chancellor and Regent of the Sultanate of Rum
• October 27 – Walter de Merton, Lord Chancellor of England and founder of Merton College, Oxford
• Jacopo da Leona, Italian poet, at Volterra