Explore 60 historical events from 1280–1289.
Peter III of Aragon was King of Aragon, King of Valencia, and Count of Barcelona from 1276 to his death. At the invitation of some rebels, he conquered the Kingdom of Sicily and be…
Peter III of Aragon is proclaimed King of Sicily in Palermo.
Alice de Toeni, Countess of Warwick was a wealthy English heiress and the second wife of Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick, an English nobleman in the reign of kings Edward I …
Alice de Toeni, Countess of Warwick (died 1324)
Hōjō Tokimune of the Hōjō clan was the eighth shikken of the Kamakura shogunate, known for leading the Japanese forces against the invasion of the Mongols and for spreading Zen Bu…
Hōjō Tokimune, regent of Japan (born 1251)
Edward II, also known as Edward of Caernarfon or Caernarvon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327. The fourth son of Edward I, Edward became the heir …
Edward II of England (died 1327)
John I was King of Cyprus and, in contention with Charles I of Anjou, of Jerusalem from 1284 to 1285.
John I of Cyprus (born 1259)
Roger Mortimer, 3rd Baron Mortimer of Wigmore, 1st Earl of March, was an English nobleman and powerful marcher lord who gained many estates in the Welsh Marches and Ireland followi…
Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1330)
Don Juan Manuel was a Spanish medieval writer, nephew of Alfonso X of Castile, son of Manuel of Castile and Beatrice of Savoy. He inherited from his father the great Lordship of Vi…
Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena (died 1348)
Magnus the Lawmender, also known as Magnus Haakonsson, was King of Norway from 1263 to 1280. One of his greatest achievements was the modernisation and nationalisation of the Norwe…
Magnus VI of Norway
Edmund Fitzalan, 2nd Earl of Arundel was an English nobleman prominent in the conflict between King Edward II and his barons. His father, Richard Fitzalan, 1st Earl of Arundel, die…
Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (died 1326)
Gertrude of Austria was a member of the House of Babenberg, Duchess of Mödling and later titular Duchess of Austria and Styria. She was the niece of Duke Frederick II of Austria, t…
Gertrude of Austria (born 1226)
The Fall of Tripoli was the capture and destruction of the Crusader state of the County of Tripoli by the Mamluk Sultanate based in Cairo. The battle occurred in 1289 and was an im…
Following weeks of bombardment, the city of Tripoli falls to the Mamluks under Qalawun
Louis X, known as the Quarrelsome, was King of France from 1314 and King of Navarre from 1305 until his death. He emancipated serfs, who could buy their freedom, and readmitted Jew…
Louis X of France (died 1316)
Wenceslaus III of Bohemia was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1301 to 1305, and King of Bohemia and Poland from 1305. He was the son of Wenceslaus II of Bohemia, and Judith of Hab…
Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (died 1306)
Elizabeth Richeza of Poland, was a Polish princess member of the House of Piast and by her two marriages Queen consort of Bohemia and Poland and Duchess consort of Austria and Styr…
Elizabeth Richeza of Poland (died 1335)
Gertrude of Austria was a member of the House of Babenberg, Duchess of Mödling and later titular Duchess of Austria and Styria. She was the niece of Duke Frederick II of Austria, t…
Gertrude of Austria (born 1226)
Stephen de Fulbourn was an English-born cleric and politician in thirteenth-century Ireland: he was Justiciar of Ireland, and Archbishop of Tuam 1286–88. He was a member of the Ord…
Stephen de Fulbourn, English-born Irish cleric and politician
Leszek II the Black was a Polish prince of the House of Piast, Duke of Sieradz since 1261, Duke of Łęczyca since 1267, Duke of Inowrocław from 1273 to 1278, Duke of Sandomierz and …
Leszek II the Black, Polish prince, Duke of Łęczyca, Sieradz, Kraków, Sandomierz (born 1241)
The Battle of Worringen was fought on 5 June 1288 near the town of Worringen, which is now part of Chorweiler, the northernmost borough (Stadtbezirk) of Cologne. It was the decisiv…
The Battle of Worringen ends the War of the Limburg Succession, with John I, Duke of Brabant, being one of the more impo
Kublai Khan, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizu of Yuan and his regnal name Setsen Khan, was the founder and first emperor of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China. …
Kublai Khan defeats the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria
The Crown of Aragon was a composite monarchy ruled by one king, originated by the dynastic union of the Kingdom of Aragon and the County of Barcelona and ended as a consequence of …
The Aragonese fleet under Roger of Lauria defeats a Angevin fleet in the Battle of the Counts close to Naples
Roger Mortimer, 3rd Baron Mortimer of Wigmore, 1st Earl of March, was an English nobleman and powerful marcher lord who gained many estates in the Welsh Marches and Ireland followi…
Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1330)
Narathihapate was the last king of the Pagan Empire who reigned from 1256 to 1287. The king is known in Burmese history as the "Taruk-Pyay Min" for his flight from Pagan (Bagan) to…
Narathihapate, Burmese king (born 1238)
Konrad von Würzburg was the chief German poet of the second half of the 13th century.
Konrad von Würzburg, German poet
Bohemond VII was the count of Tripoli and nominal prince of Antioch from 1275 to his death. The only part left of the Principality of Antioch was the port of Latakia. He spent much…
Bohemond VII, Count of Tripoli
John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, was the last Warenne Earl of Surrey.
John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English magnate (died 1347)
Hugh de Balsham was a medieval English bishop.
Hugh de Balsham, English bishop
John I, known as John the Red due to the colour of his beard, was Duke of Brittany from 1221 to his death and 2nd Earl of Richmond in 1268.
John I, Duke of Brittany (born 1217)
Gregory Barhebraeus or Bar Hebraeus, also known as Abu al-Faraj and in Latin, Abulpharagius, was the maphrian Catholicos of the East of the Catholicate of the East under the Syriac…
Bar Hebraeus, Syrian scholar and historian (born 1226)
Edmund Fitzalan, 2nd Earl of Arundel was an English nobleman prominent in the conflict between King Edward II and his barons. His father, Richard Fitzalan, 1st Earl of Arundel, die…
Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (died 1326)
Sir Robert de Ros was an English nobleman.
Robert de Ros, 1st Baron de Ros
Four major military campaigns were launched by the Mongol Empire, and later the Yuan dynasty, against the kingdom of Đại Việt ruled by the Trần dynasty and the kingdom of Champa in…
Second Mongol invasion of Vietnam: Forces led by Prince Trần Quang Khải of the Trần dynasty destroy most of the invading
The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having s…
The Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Venice conclude a treaty
John I was King of Cyprus and, in contention with Charles I of Anjou, of Jerusalem from 1284 to 1285.
John I of Cyprus (born 1259)
Tile Kolup, also known as Dietrich Holzschuh, was an impostor who in 1284 began to pretend to be Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.
Tile Kolup, German impostor claiming to be Frederick II