Sicilian Vespers
Palermo rises against Charles of Anjou's French
On Easter Monday 1282 a brawl with French soldiers outside a Palermo church grew into an island-wide revolt. The Sicilians called in Peter III of Aragon, and the kingdom split into Aragonese Sicily and Angevin Naples.
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Asia
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Oceania
- c. 1280 Polynesians settle New Zealand — 2 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Kublai Khan (aged 67)
- Marco Polo (aged 28)
- Dante Alighieri (aged 17)
- Rudolf I (aged 64)
- Edward I Longshanks (aged 43)
- Osman I (aged 24)
- Philip IV the Fair (aged 14)
- Mansa Musa (aged 2)
- Orhan (aged 1)
- Philip III the Bold (aged 37)