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==== Cities and towns ====
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Augsburg]] is granted the status of a [[free imperial city]]. Later this year, [[Ravensburg]] also receives the status.

==== Culture ====
* [[Merton College, Oxford]], is first recorded as having a collection of books, making [[Merton College Library|its Library]] the world's oldest in continuous daily use.<ref>{{cite web|title=Library & Archives - History|url=http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/aboutmerton/library8.shtml|publisher=Merton College|location=Oxford|access-date=2012-05-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513022654/http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/aboutmerton/library8.shtml|archive-date=May 13, 2012|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

==== Economy ====
* [[Henry of Ghent]] (or Henricus) becomes the last major theologian openly to consider [[Annuity (finance theory)|annuities]] as a usurious contract. The end of the debate allows for the expansion of the budding practice of renten emission, to become a staple of public finance in northwestern [[Europe]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Munro|first=John H.|title=The Medieval Origins of the Financial Revolution|journal=The International History Review|year=2003|volume=15|issue=3|pages=506–562}}</ref>

==== Religion ====
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Pope Gregory X]] dies after a 4-year [[pontificate]] at [[Arezzo]]. He is succeeded by [[Pope Innocent V|Innocent V]] as the 185th pope of the [[Catholic Church]].
* [[June 22]] &ndash; Innocent V dies after a 5-month reign at [[Rome]]. He is succeeded by [[Pope Adrian V|Adrian V]] (or Hadrian) as the 186th pope of the Catholic Church.
* [[August 18]] &ndash; Adrian V (Hadrian) dies after a 2-month reign at [[Viterbo]]. He is succeeded by [[Pope John XXI|John XXI]] as the 187th pope of Rome (until [[1277]]).
* The foundation stone of the [[Minoritenkirche (Vienna)|Minoritenkirche]] in [[Vienna]] is laid by Ottokar II.</onlyinclude>