1272

- Mamluk sultan Baibars of Egypt invades the weakening kingdom of Makuria to the south.

- Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples, occupies Durres in Albania and establishes an Albanian kingdom.

- Count Floris V of Holland makes an unsuccessful attack on Frisia in an attempt to recover the body of his father, Count William II.

- King Edward I of England departs for England from the failed Ninth Crusade and becomes King when his father, King Henry III, dies.