1272

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1240s 1250s 1260s – 1270s – 1280s 1290s 1300s
Years:	1269 1270 1271 – 1272 – 1273 1274 1275

Events

Mamluk sultan Baibars of Egypt invades the weakening kingdom of Makuria to the south.
Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples, occupies Durres in Albania and establishes an Albanian kingdom.
Count Floris V of Holland makes an unsuccessful attack on Frisia in an attempt to recover the body of his father, Count William II.
King Edward I of England departs for England from the failed Ninth Crusade and becomes King when his father, King Henry III, dies.
November 21 – Edward becomes King of England.
King Alphonso III of Portugal eliminates the last Moorish community in Portugal at Faro.
The city of Strasbourg becomes an Imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire.
The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers receives the right to regulate the leather trade in London, England.
In astronomy, the recording of the Alfonsine tables is completed.
The first recorded reference of cricket dates back to 1272.