1272

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.

 Births 
 Bernardo Tolomei (died 1348)
 King Frederick III of Sicily (died 1337)
 Otto I of Hesse (approximate date; died 1328)

 Deaths 
 March 17 – Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (born 1220)
 March 18 – John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel (born 1246)
 April 2 – Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1209)
 April 27 – Saint Zita
 August 6 – King Stephen V of Hungary
 November 16 – King Henry III of England (born 1207)
 December 13 – Bertold von Regensburg, German preacher
 William of Saint-Amour, French scholastic philosopher (born 1200)

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