The world in 1273 AD — what happened that year

11 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.

What happened

In the first month of the ninth year, Fancheng was broken; Fan Tianshun and Niu Fu died in battle. (History of Song (Songshi), Annals 宋史卷046 咸淳九年)
Jia Sidao first reported that Lü Wenhuan, commander of Xiangyang, had surrendered the city to the Yuan. (History of Song (Songshi), Annals 宋史卷046 咸淳九年)
Arihaya and others launched a massive assault on Fancheng and took it. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史卷8 世祖 1273年 1月)
Lü Wenhuan, Song's Jingxi pacification commissioner and prefect of Xiangyang, offered the city and surrendered. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史卷8 世祖 1273年)
In the first month, day yichou, Fancheng fell. (Xu Zizhi Tongjian (Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror) 권180 正月 단락180.1.0)
In the second month, day gengxu, Lü Wenhuan, Jingxi pacification deputy commissioner, surrendered Xiangyang to the Yuan. (Xu Zizhi Tongjian (Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror) 권180 二月 단락180.5.0)

Xindu and others reached Tamna (Jeju) and pacified it. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史卷8 世祖 1273年 5月)
The Samyeolcho again raid Happ'o, burn thirty-two warships, and kill or capture more than ten Mongol soldiers. (Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) 世家卷27 元宗十四年)
Kim Bang-gyeong, with Heundo and Dagu, leads 160 ships from the Jeolla province and more than ten thousand men by sea and land to Tamna, and utterly routs the enemy. (Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) 世家卷27 元宗十四年)
1273: the allied army of Kim Bang-gyeong and Hindu lands at Tamna through Hamdeokpo; striking enemies hidden among the rocks, they cross the outer wall, set fire with arrows, and the Sambyeolcho collapse (Goryeosa Jeolyo (Essentials of Goryeo History) 권19 元宗十四年)

Dmitri Alexandrovich is seated in Novgorod on 9 October. (Novgorod First Chronicle litopys 기사 1273년)