1272
Year 1272 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.Events
- February - Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples, occupies Durazzo in Albania, and establishes the Albanian Kingdom.
- May 12 - The Mamluk sultan Baybars and the Kingdom of Jerusalem conclude a ten-year truce at Caesarea.
- November 16 - Edward I becomes King of England on the death of his father Henry III.
- Baybars invades the weakening kingdom of Makuria, to the south of Egypt.
- Floris V, Count of Holland, makes an unsuccessful attack on Frisia in an attempt to recover the body of his father, Count William II.
- King Afonso III of Portugal eliminates the last Moorish community in Portugal at Faro.
- Worshipful Company of Cordwainers and Curriers granted rights to regulate the leather trade in the City of London ; Fishmongers Company chartered.
- In astronomy, the recording of the Alfonsine tables is completed.
Births
- December 13 - King Frederick III of Sicily
- date unknown - Bernardo Tolomei, Italian theologian
- Otto I of Hesse
- Isabel Bruce; queen consort of Norway
Deaths
- March 17 - Emperor Go-Saga of Japan
- March 18 - John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel
- April 2 - Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor
- April 27 - Saint Zita, Italian saint
- August 6 - King Stephen V of Hungary
- August 7 - Richard Middleton, Lord Chancellor of England
- October 27 or October 30 - Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy
- November 16 - King Henry III of England
- December 13 - Bertold of Regensburg, German preacher
- Bartholomeus Anglicus, English Franciscan monk and encyclopedia writer
- William of Saint-Amour, French scholastic philosopher
- William of Sherwood, English logician
