1279 (MCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1279th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 279th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 13th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1270s decade. As of the start of 1279, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 12th century13th century14th century
Decades: 1240s  1250s  1260s  – 1270s –  1280s  1290s  1300s
Years: 1276 1277 127812791280 1281 1282
1279 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1279
MCCLXXIX
Ab urbe condita2032
Armenian calendar728
ԹՎ ՉԻԸ
Assyrian calendar6029
Balinese saka calendar1200–1201
Bengali calendar686
Berber calendar2229
English Regnal yearEdw. 1 – 8 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar1823
Burmese calendar641
Byzantine calendar6787–6788
Chinese calendar戊寅(Earth Tiger)
3975 or 3915
    — to —
己卯年 (Earth Rabbit)
3976 or 3916
Coptic calendar995–996
Discordian calendar2445
Ethiopian calendar1271–1272
Hebrew calendar5039–5040
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1335–1336
 - Shaka Samvat1200–1201
 - Kali Yuga4379–4380
Holocene calendar11279
Igbo calendar279–280
Iranian calendar657–658
Islamic calendar677–678
Japanese calendarKōan 2
(弘安2年)
Javanese calendar1189–1190
Julian calendar1279
MCCLXXIX
Korean calendar3612
Minguo calendar633 before ROC
民前633年
Nanakshahi calendar−189
Thai solar calendar1821–1822
Tibetan calendar阳土虎年
(male Earth-Tiger)
1405 or 1024 or 252
    — to —
阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
1406 or 1025 or 253

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