1271 in China

← 1270 1269 1268 1267 1266 1271 in China → 1272 1273 1274 1275 1276
Decades:	1250s
See also:	Other events of 1271 History of China  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year 1271 in China.

Incumbents

• Song dynasty – Emperor Duzong
• Yuan dynasty – Kublai Khan

Events

• Kublai Khan declares himself emperor of the Yuan dynasty and for the first time, annual sacrifices at the altars of Soil and Grain are done in the Chinese style[1][2]
• Kublai Khan sends his son Nomukhan to garrison Almaliq[3]
• Niccolò and Maffeo Polo as well as Marco Polo set off for China[4]
• Chinese people start visiting Taiwan[5]

Births

• Emperor Bing of Song (1271 – 1279)

References

1. Twitchett 1994, p. 458.
2. Twitchett 1994, p. 457.
3. Twitchett 1994, p. 434.
4. Twitchett 1994, p. 464.
5. Andrade 2008f.

• Andrade, Tonio (2008f), "Chapter 6: The Birth of Co-colonization", How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century, Columbia University Press
• Twitchett, Denis (1994), The Cambridge History of China, Volume 6, Alien Regime and Border States, 907-1368, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521243315