1267
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Events
Europe
War and politics
- King Afonso III of Portugal and King Alfonso X of Castile sign a treaty determining the southern border between Portugal and Spain as the Guadiana River, a border that remains to this day.
- The Second Barons' War in England ends, as the rebels and King Henry III of England agree to peace terms as laid out in the Dictum of Kenilworth.
- King Henry III of England acknowledges Llywelyn ap Gruffudd's title of Prince of Wales in the Treaty of Montgomery.
- Emperor Baldwin II of Constantinople gifts the Principality of Achaea to King Charles I of Sicily in the Treaty of Viterbo in the hopes that Charles could help him restore the Latin Empire.
Culture
- Roger Bacon completes his work Opus Majus and sends it to Pope Clement IV, who had requested it be written; the work contians wide-ranging discussion of mathematics, optics, alchemy, astronomy, astrology, and other topics, and includes what some believe to be the first description of a magnifying glass. Bacon also completes Opus Minus, a summary of Opus Majus, later in the same year.
- The leadership of Vienna forces Jews to wear Pileum cornutum,a cone-shaped head dress, in addition to the yellow badges Jews were already forced to wear.
- In England, the Statute of Marlborough is passed, the oldest English law still (partially) in force.
Asia and Africa
- The "Grand Capital" is constructed in Khanbaliq (present-day Beijing by Kublai Khan, having moved the capital of the Mongol Empire there three years prior.
- Malik ul Salih establishes Samudra Pasai, the first Muslim state in Indonesia.
- Spain attempts an invasion of Morocco, but the Marinids successfully defend against the invasion and drive out Spanish forces.
Births
- February 3 - Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Arundel (died 1302)
- August 10 - King James II of Aragon (died 1327)
- December 17 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (died 1324)
- Giotto di Bondone, Italian artist (died 1337)
Deaths
- John FitzAlan, 6th Earl of Arundel (born 1223)
- Hugh II of Cyprus (born 1253)
- Lars, Archbishop of Uppsala



