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Heads of State
Year of The Fire Tiger丙寅( at the beginning of the year Wood Buffalo乙丑)
Syria: 1577/78 ( the year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Sicily
- January 6: Charles I of Anjou was crowned in Rome by five cardinals to the king of Sicily.
- FEBRUARY 26: Charles I of Anjou defeated at the battle of Benevento, a German - Sicilian army under Manfred of Sicily.
More Events in Europe
- JULY 2: In the Treaty of Perth Norway sold the Isle of Man and the Hebrides to Scotland.
- First mention of Buckten, Burgi stone, Flüelen, Holungen, Kappel am Rhein, market wide, Winznau and Wolfwil.
- Henry II of Anhalt- Aschersleben Aschersleben gives the town right.
Culture
- The Arab chess grandmaster Borzago plays simultaneously in Florence. Without regard to the board he won two games, the third is a draw.
Religion
- Thomas Aquinas begins his major work, the Summa Theologica (up to 1273), which represents the pinnacle of scholasticism.
- Peter of Dacia to 1269 studied at the Cologne Dominican Convent.
Born
- Roger de Flor, military adventurer († 1305)
- John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond, English nobleman († 1334 )
- To 1266: John Duns Scotus, Scottish Franciscan, philosopher and theologian († 1308)
Died
- April 4: John I, Margrave of Brandenburg (c. 1213)
- By JUNE 12: Henry II, Prince of Anhalt- Aschersleben ( * 1215)
- August 4: Otto of Burgundy, Count of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre (* 1231 )
- OCTOBER 21: Birger Jarl, Swedish statesman and since 1248 Jarl of Sweden (c. 1210)
- 29 October: Margaret of Babenberg, wife of Czech King Otakar II Premysl (* 1204 or 1205 )
- December 3: Henry III, Duke of Silesia -Breslau (* 1227/1230 ).
- December 7: John of Ibelin, a vassal of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Count of Jaffa and Ascalon, nephew of John I the Old of Ibelin, a known lawyer and Regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem ( 1254-1256 ). (* 1215)
- Agnes, child of Conrad II of Landsberg
- Andronicus Comnenus, Emperor of Trebizond and Großkomnene (c. 1240)
- Shibani Khan, prince of the White Horde
- Arigkbugha Khan, Kublai Khan's brother and heir apparent of Mongolian