Editing 1270 (section)

=== Asia ===
* In Korea, the [[Sambyeolcho Rebellion]] begins against the [[Goryeo]] dynasty, a [[vassal state]] of the [[Yuan dynasty]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=46OTBQAAQBAJ&q=Sambyeolcho+Rebellion+1270&pg=PA79|title=Korean History in Maps|last1=Injae|first1=Lee|last2=Miller|first2=Owen|last3=Jinhoon|first3=Park|last4=Hyun-Hae|first4=Yi|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2014|isbn=9781107098466|editor-last=Shin|editor-first=Michael D.|location=Cambridge|pages=79|language=en}}</ref>
* The ancient city of [[Ascalon]] is captured from the [[Crusader States]], and utterly destroyed by the [[Mamluk]] sultan [[Baibars]], who goes so far as to fill in its important [[harbor]], leaving the site desolate, and the city never to be rebuilt.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=orbpAAAAMAAJ&q=Ashkelon+1270|title=Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land|last1=Avi-Yonah|first1=Michael|last2=Stern|first2=Ephraim|publisher=Prentice-Hall|year=1978|isbn=9780132751155|volume=I|location=Englewood Cliffs, NJ|pages=124|language=en}}</ref>
* The city of [[Tabriz]], in present-day [[Iran]], is made capital of the [[Mongol Empire|Mongol]] [[Ilkhanate]] Empire (approximate date).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BkVWAgAAQBAJ&q=1270+Tabriz&pg=PA308|title=Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th - 15th Century Tabriz|last=Pfeiffer|first=Judith|publisher=BRILL|year=2014|isbn=9789004262577|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=305|language=en}}</ref>
* The independent state of [[Cutch State|Kutch]] is founded, in present-day [[India]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indianngos.com/districts/kutch.asp|title=Welcome to Kutch|website=www.indianngos.com|access-date=2019-02-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170621181900/http://www.indianngos.com/districts/kutch.asp|archive-date=June 21, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* A census of the Chinese city of [[Hangzhou]] establishes that some 186,330 families reside within it, not including visitors and soldiers (Historian Jacques Gernet argues that this means a population of over 1 million inhabitants, making Hangzhou the most populous city in the world).<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Chase-Dunn|first1=Chris|last2=Inoue|first2=Hiroku|last3=Anderson|first3=E.N.|date=16 August 2016|title=The Growth of Hangzhou and the Geopolitical Context in East Asia|url=https://irows.ucr.edu/papers/irows111/irows111.htm|journal=The Institute for Research on World-Systems Working Papers|volume=111}}</ref>
* [[December 15]] – The [[Nizari Ismaili state|Nizari Ismaili]] garrison of [[Gerdkuh]], Persia surrender after 17 years to the [[Mongol campaign against the Nizaris|Mongols]].<ref name="Daftary1992p429">{{cite book |last1=Daftary |first1=Farhad |title=The Isma'ilis: Their History and Doctrines |date=1992 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-42974-0 |page=429 |language=en}}</ref>