1280s facts for kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1250s 1260s 1270s – 1280s – 1290s 1300s 1310s
Years:	1280 1281 1282 1283 1284 1285 1286 1287 1288 1289
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

Events

1282 – March – Dafydd ap Gruffydd, brother to Prince of Wales Llywelyn the Last, attacks an English castle; his brother feels compelled to support him despite poor preparation for war, quickly leading to the final English conquest of Wales by King Edward I of England.
1286 – Prussians settled in exile in Serbia stage a famous uprising.
1288 – June 5 – John I of Brabant defeats the duchy of Guelders in the Battle of Worringen — one of the largest battles in Europe of the Middle Ages — thus winning possession of the duchy of Limburg. The battle also liberates the city of Cologne from rule by the Archbishopric of Cologne; it had previously been one of the major ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire.
1288 – August 8 – Pope Nicholas IV proclaims a crusade against King Ladislaus IV of Hungary, who had lost credibility by favoring his semi-pagan Cuman subjects and in general refusing to conform to the social standards of western Europe.