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== Events ==
* [[February]] – The court of the [[Southern Song Dynasty]] of [[China]] and hundreds of thousands of its citizens move from [[Hangzhou]] to [[Fujian]] and then [[Guangdong]] to get away from an invasion by the [[Mongol Empire]].
* [[March 9]] – [[Augsburg]] becomes an [[Imperial Free City]]. [[Ravensburg]] also does in the same year.
* [[June]] – King [[Rudolph I of Germany]] starts a war with King [[Otakar II of Bohemia]]; by [[November]], Otakar II has to give him four important pieces of land. (The [[diet (assembly)|diet]] of [[Nuremberg]] already decided this in [[1274]].)
* Four different men are [[pope]] in this year, as Popes [[Pope Gregory X|Gregory X]], [[Pope Innocent V|Innocent V]], and [[Pope Adrian V|Adrian V]] all die in a short time.
* King [[Otakar II of Bohemia]] lays the foundation stone of the [[Minorite church (Vienna)|Minorite Church]] in [[Vienna]].
* [[Mamluk]] sultan [[Baibars]] takes [[Al-Maris]], which was part of [[Makuria]], and goes through it into [[Egypt]].
* A 23-year [[drought]] begins to change the [[History of the Grand Canyon area|Grand Canyon area]]. In the end, the agriculture-dependent [[Anasazi]] culture has to migrate out of the region.

== Births ==
* [[October 19]] – [[Prince Hisaaki]], Japanese shogun (died [[1328]])
* [[Christopher II of Denmark]] (died [[1332]])
* [[Vakhtang III of Georgia]] (died [[1308]])
* [[Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford]] (died [[1322]])
* [[Yesün Temür Khan]] of the Mongol Empire (died [[1328]])
* [[Louis d'Évreux]], son of King [[Philip III of France]]

== Deaths ==

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