1280
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Events

• Construction on the northern section of the Grand Canal of China is begun.
• The final expansion of the Lincoln Cathedral is completed.
• King Magnus I of Sweden founds a Swedish nobility by enacting a law accepting a contribution of a cavalry-member in lieu of ordinary tax payments.
• King Edward I of England forms the Court of King's Bench to hear petitions for justice instead of the king hearing them himself.
• The Wolf minimum of solar activity begins (approximate date).
• The Asen dynasty of tsars of Bulgaria ends.
• Syria attempts to secede from the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt, but Qalawun defeats the rebels and keeps Syria within the Egyptian sultanate.
• The second of two main surveys of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086, is completed; it began in 1279.
• Turin is conquered by Thomas III of Savoy, becoming the capital of the House of Savoy.
• Osman starts to rule.

Births

• Birger of Sweden (d. 1321)
• Wu Zhen, Chinese painter (d. 1354)

Deaths

• August 22 - Pope Nicholas III (b. 1218)
• November 15 - Albertus Magnus, German theologian
• Magnus VI of Norway