1286

By area

Africa

• Abu Zakariya is successful in setting a principality centered on Béjaïa, which becomes a rival of the main Hafsid entity based in Tunis.

  Asia

• In the Lao kingdom of Muang Sua, King Panya Leng is overthrown in a coup d'état led by his son Panya Khamphong, which is likely to have been supported by the regionally dominant Mongol Yuan Dynasty of China.
• Kublai Khan plots a final Mongol invasion of Japan, but aborts the plan due to a lack of necessary resources.

  Europe

• March 19 - King Alexander III of Scotland dies in a horse accident, with only Yolande of Dreux, Queen of Scotland's unborn child and 3-year-old Margaret, Maid of Norway as heirs; this sets the stage for the First War of Scottish Independence, and the increased influence of England over Scotland.
• King Philip IV of France imposes the gabelle - a tax on salt in the form of a state monopoly - which will become immensely unpopular and grossly unequal, but persist until 1790.
• Old Prussians resettled in Sambia stage a famous uprising.
• King Rudolph I of Germany declares all Jews to be "serfs of the Treasury", thus negating all their political freedoms.
• The Guelph Republic of Siena allows exiled Ghibelline rebels back into the city.
• The War of the Ass is fought between the Ghisi and Sanudo families, in the Duchy of the Archipelago.

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Arts and culture

• March 7 - The Catholicon, a religious Latin dictionary, is completed by John Balbi of Genoa.