1283
Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th centuryDecades: 1230s 1240s 1250s 1260s 1270s - 1280s - 1290s 1300s 1310s 1320s 1330s
Years: 1278 1279 1280 1281 1282 - 1283 - 1284 1285 1286s 1287 1288
Events
- Teutonic Knights subjugate Prussia
- Sopot comes under the control of the free city of Danzig
- Gregory Cyprius becomes Patriarch of Constantinople
- Northern section of the Grand Canal of China is completed
- Thai alphabet created by King Ramkhamhaeng the Great
- Edward I of England raids the Templars treasury
- Edward I of England captures Dolwyddelan Castle
- Construction of Harlech Castle begun
- Anklam becomes a member of the Hanseatic League
- Philip, heir to the throne of France, marries Jeanne of Navarre, resulting in the union of the crowns of France and Navarre
- Daniel of Russia - first prince of Moscow
- Margaret I of Scotland - Queen of Scotland
- Yoshida Kenko - Japanese author
- January 9 - Wu Tian Xiang, the most renowned Chinese patriot of the Song Dynasty, was exceuted in Beijing at age 47.
- Saadi, Persian poet
- Rhys ap Maredudd ruler of Deheubarth is Wales
- David ap Gruffydd prince of Gwynedd in Wales
