Editing 1275 (section)

==== British Isles ====
* Spring &ndash; King [[Edward I of England]] ("Longshanks") demands a meeting with [[Llywelyn ap Gruffudd]], prince of [[Wales]], at [[Chester]] to pay homage, but Llywelyn refuses. In an attempt to stir up internal problems, Llywelyn seeks to marry 23-year-old [[Eleanor de Montfort, Princess of Wales|Eleanor of Montfort]], daughter of [[Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester|Simon de Montfort]], but she is captured by English pirates (employed by Edward) on the journey from [[France in the Middle Ages|France]] to meet Llywelyn. She is held prisoner at [[Windsor Castle]] and used as a bargaining chip over the coming years in Edward's attempts to subjugate Llywelyn and Wales. 
* [[April 22]] &ndash; The first [[Statute of Westminster 1275|Statute of Westminster]], drawn up between [[Parliament of England|Parliament]] and Edward I, defines the legal privileges that landowners are allowed. These are based on the investigations carried out in [[1274]] into the landowner's rights to own their land. Establishing a series of laws into 51 chapters, including equal treatment of rich and poor, free and fair elections, and definition of [[Bail]]able and non-bailable offenses.
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[1275 British earthquake]]: An earthquake strikes the south of [[Great Britain]]. The epicentre is unknown, although it may have been in the [[Portsmouth]]-[[Chichester]] area on the south coast of [[Kingdom of England|England]]<ref name="BGS historical">{{cite web |title=Notes on Individual Earthquakes |url=http://www.quakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/historical/historical_listing.htm |publisher=[[British Geological Survey]] |access-date=5 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071119072210/http://www.quakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/historical/historical_listing.htm |archive-date=2007-11-19 }}</ref> or in [[Glamorgan]], Wales.<ref name="Musson 2015">{{cite journal |last1=Musson |first1=Roger |title=What Was the Largest British Earthquake? |journal=SECED Conference 2015 |date=9 July 2015 |page=3 |url=https://www.seced.org.uk/images/newsletters/MUSSON.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.seced.org.uk/images/newsletters/MUSSON.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |access-date=5 August 2019}}</ref>
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[Battle of Ronaldsway]]: Scottish forces under [[John de Vesci]] defeat the [[Manx people]] of the [[Isle of Man]] in a decisive battle, firmly establishing Scottish rule of the island.
* The first main survey of the [[Hundred Rolls]], an English [[census]] seen as a follow-up to the [[Domesday Book]] completed in [[1086]], is finished; it began in [[1274]].