Major Events
- Oct 3 Beauvais cathedral in France is completed (choir and transept), designed to be the largest French Gothic cathedral ever built
- Nov 20 Edward I proclaimed King of England after death of his father, Henry III. He would take two years to return to England from the Ninth Crusade.
- Nov 21 Following Henry III of England's death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King of England.
Who Died in 1272
- Mar 14 Enzo of Sardinia, illegitimate son of Emperor Frederick II von Hohenstaufen who appointed him King of Sardinia (1238-49) and poet, dies in prison
- Mar 17 Go-Saga, 88th Emperor of Japan (1242-46), dies at 51
- Apr 2 Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1209)
- Apr 27 Zita, Italian maid and Roman Catholic saint from Lucca, dies at about 59
- Aug 6 Stephen V, King of Hungary and Croatia (1270-72), son of Béla IV, dies at 32 or 33
More 1272 Deaths
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