1287

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Construction of the Uppsala Cathedral begins.

Year 1287 (MCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Africa

• The Aragonese navy raids the Tunisian Kerkennah Islands.^[1]

Asia

• Mamluk sultan Qalawun captures the port city of Latakia in present-day Syria.
• Mongol Ilkhan Arghun Khan dispatches Rabban Bar Sauma to the leaders of Europe to negotiate an alliance against the Muslim states, specifically the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt.
• Kings Mengrai of the Lanna kingdom and Ramkhamhaeng the Great of the Sukhothai kingdom agree to a peace pact in their region of southeast Asia (present-day Thailand).
• Battle of Pagan: The Theravada Buddhist kingdom at Pagan, Myanmar falls to the invading armies of the Yuan Dynasty.

Europe

• January 17 – The Treaty of San Agayz is signed. King Alfonso III of Aragon conquers the island of Minorca from the Moors.
• June 8 – Rhys ap Maredudd revolts in Wales; the revolt will not be suppressed until 1288.
• December 14 – A huge storm and associated storm tide in the North Sea and English Channel, known as St. Lucia's flood in the Netherlands, kills thousands and reshapes the coastal line of the Netherlands and England.
  • In the Netherlands, a fringing barrier between the North Sea and a shallow lake collapses, causing the fifth largest flood in recorded history which creates the Zuider Zee inlet and kills over 50,000 people; it also gives sea access to Amsterdam, allowing its development as an important port city.
  • In England, the city of Winchelsea on Romney Marsh is destroyed; nearby Broomhill is also destroyed; course of the nearby river Rother diverted to Rye; cliff collapses at Hastings, blocking the harbour; parts of Norfolk are flooded; decline of the port of Dunwich in Suffolk is accelerated.
  • In the English Fenland through the vehemence of the wind and the violence of the sea, the monastery of Spalding and many churches are overthrown and destroyed "All the whole country in the parts of Holland was for the most part turned into a standing pool so that an intolerable multitude of men, women and children were overwhelmed with the water, especially in the town of Boston, a great part thereof was destroyed."^[2]
• King Edward I of England arrests the heads of Jewish households, and demands their communities pay hefty ransoms for their release.
• The Mongol Golden Horde, led by khan Talabuga and Nogai Khan, attacks Poland for the third time. Lublin, Mazovia, Sandomierz and Sieradz are ravaged by the invaders, who are defeated in Kraków.
• In Aragon, the Uniones, an aristocratic uprising, forces the Crown to make concessions to the nobility.^[3] In particular, the king grants his barons a bill of rights, known as the Privilegium Generale.^[4]

By topic

Arts and culture

• The Altar of St. James at the Cathedral of San Zeno in Pistoia, Italy – a masterwork of the silversmithing trade containing nearly a ton of silver – is begun; it will not be completed for nearly 200 years.

Markets

• The Italian city of Sienna exacts a forced loan on its taxpayers for the first time. This is a common fixture of medieval public finance.^[5]

Religion

• Construction on the Cathedral of Uppsala is begun; it will not be completed until 1435.

Trivia

• The Bruntal coat of arms makes its first appearance.

Births

• January 24 – Richard Aungerville, English writer and bishop (d. 1345)
• April 25 – Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (d. 1330)
• Robert III of Artois

Deaths

• April 3 – Pope Honorius IV
• August 31 – Konrad von Würzburg, German poet
• October 19 – Bohemund VII of Tripoli
• Llywelyn ap Dafydd, a Welsh prince (in his prison at Bristol Castle)

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