Decades: 1220s 1230s 1240s 1250s 1260s - 1270s - 1280s 1290s 1300s 1310s 1320s
Years: 1274 1275 1276 1277 1278 - 1279 - 1280 1281 1282 1283 1284
Events Battle of Yamen. Mongolian Yuan Dynasty anniliated the last fleet of Chinese Song Dynasty and thus exterminated the Song Dynasty D. Diniz becomes king of Portugal King Edward I of England bans land grants to the church. A dispute with the Archbishop of Canterbury John Peckham led to the ruling in the Statute of Mortmain. This was the first act of anticlerical legislation in England. Births Deaths February 16 - King Afonso III of Portugal September 11 - Robert Kilwardby, cardinal and philosopher