What Happened in 1275

Major Events

  • May 23 King Edward I of England orders cessation of persecution of French Jews
  • Oct 27 Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam

Born in 1275

  • Mar 15 Margaret Plantagenet, English princess (d. 1318)
  • Sep 27 John II, Flemish Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg (1294–1312), born in Tervuren, Flemish Brabant, Belgium (d. 1312)

Who Died in 1275

  • Jan 6 Raymundus of Penafort, Spanish church law scholar, dies
  • Feb 10 Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English chronicler of the mayors and sheriffs of London in 1188–1274, reported to have died at 73 (probably died 1274)
  • Apr 13 Eleanor de Montfort, English Countess of Leicester and sister to Henry III (sided with the baron's rebellion against her brother), dies living as a nun in exile at about 60
  • Sep 24 Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Constable of England (b. 1208)



World Leaders in 1275