EventsEdit

• February 22 - Pope Nicholas IV succeeds Pope Honorius IV as the 191st pope.
• June 5 - John I of Brabant defeats the duchy of Guelders in the Battle of Worringen — one of the largest battles in Europe of the Middle Ages — thus winning possession of the duchy of Limburg. The battle also liberates the city of Cologne from rule by the Archbishopric of Cologne; it had previously been one of the major ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire.
• June 16 - The bishop of Västerås buys 1/8 of the Stora Kopparberg copper mine in Falun, Sweden.
• August 8 - Pope Nicholas IV proclaims a crusade against King Ladislaus IV of Hungary, who had lost credibility by favoring his semi-pagan Cuman subjects and in general refusing to conform to the social standards of western Europe.
• The Scots Parliament creates a law allowing women to propose marriage to men during leap years; men who refuse such proposals are required to pay a fine to the spurned bride-to-be.
• The oldest surviving bell in the clocks atop the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome dates to 1288.
• Work is begun on the construction of Mob Quad in Merton College.
• Vietnamese general Tran Hung Dao sinks the entire fleet of an invading Yuan dynasty Mongol army by placing steel-tipped bamboo stakes in the Bach Dang River, near Halong Bay.
• The Japanese era Koan ends, and the Shōō era begins.
• Japan: Prince Subaru conquers the provinces of Gunma and Tochigi.
• The oldest known bronze handgun in the world is dated to this year, a Chinese gun found in Acheng District that was once used to suppress the rebellion of the Christian Mongol Prince Nayan in 1287-1288.

BirthsEdit

• April 5 - Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (died 1336)
• November 26 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (died 1339)
• Gersonides, Jewish philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer (died 1344)
• Ivan I of Russia (died 1340)

DeathsEdit

• Gertrude of Austria (born 1226)
• Richard de Clare (born 1222)
• Ibn Nafis, Arabic anatomist, discoverer of the circulation of the blood (born 1210)
• Guy de Montfort (approximate date; born 1244)
• Toros Roslin, Armenian miniaturist (approximate date; born c. 1210)
• Leszek II the Black, Polish prince, Duke of Łęczyca, Sieradz, Kraków, Sandomierz (born 1241)

People of the year 1288 at Familypedia

8 people were born in 1288

1 children were born to the 2 women born in 1288

11 people died in 1288

477 people lived in 1288

Events of the year 1288 at FamilypediaEdit

8 people were married in 1288.

There were 1 military battles in 1288.