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{{Year nav|1277}} {{Year in various calendars|1277}} {{Year article header|1277}} == Events == * [[Myanmar|Burma]]'s [[Pagan, Myanmar|Pagan]] empire begins to disintegrate after being defeated by [[Kublai Khan]] at the [[Battle of Ngasaunggyan]], at [[Yunnan]] near the [[China|Chinese]] border. * Some 50,000 leaders and citizens of the [[Southern Song Dynasty]] of [[China]] become the first recorded inhabitants of [[Macau]], as they seek refuge from the invading [[Mongol Empire]]. They also stayed for a short period in [[Kowloon]]. Some hundred years later the place where they stayed became [[Sung Wong Toi]]. * [[Mamluk]] sultan [[Baibars]] invades [[Anatolia]] and captures the emirates which once composed the [[Sultanate of Rüm]]. * [[Llywelyn the Last|Llywelyn ap Gruffyd]] is subdued by King [[Edward I of England]] in the First Welsh War. * [[St George's cross]] is first used as the [[flag]] of [[England]]. * The [[philosophy|philosophical]] doctrine [[Averroism]] is banned from [[Paris]] at a [[Condemnations (University of Paris)|condemnation at the University of Paris]]. * In [[Japan]], a 20 kilometer stone wall defending the coast of Hakata Bay in [[Fukuoka, Fukuoka|Fukuoka]] is completed; it is built in response to the attempted invasion by the [[Mongol Empire]] in [[1274]]. * [[November 25]] – [[Pope Nicholas III]] succeeds [[Pope John XXI]] as the 188th [[pope]]. * Third Mongol [[Golden Horde]] raid against [[Lithuania]]. == Births == * [[Sempad of Armenia]] (died c. [[1310]]) * [[Isabella of Mar]], first wife of [[Robert I of Scotland|Robert Bruce]] (approximate date; died [[1296]]) == Deaths == * [[May 1]] – [[Stefan Uros I]] of Serbia * [[May 20]] – [[Pope John XXI]] (born [[1215]]) * [[July 1]] – [[Baibars]], Mameluk sultan of Egypt (born [[1223]]) * [[October 27]] – [[Walter de Merton]], [[Lord Chancellor|Lord Chancellor of England]] and founder of Merton College, Oxford * [[Folke Johansson Ängel]], Archbishop of Uppsala [[Category:1277| ]]