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| Years: 1297 1298 1299 - 1300 - 1301 1302 1303 | |
| Decades: 1270s 1280s 1290s - 1300s - 1310s 1320s 1330s | |
| Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century | |
[edit] Events
- February 22 - Jubilee of Pope Boniface VIII.
- March 10 - Wardrobe accounts of King Edward I of England (aka Edward Longshanks) include a reference to a game called creag being played at the town of Newenden in Kent. It is generally agreed that creag was an early form of cricket.
See also: History of cricket to 1696. - March 25 - Dante descends to the Inferno in The Divine Comedy.
- Money from Florence, Italy becomes the first International Currency.
- Philip IV of France begins attempt to annex Flanders.
- Wenceslas II of Bohemia becomes King of Poland.
- A census in Imperial China finds that it has roughly 60 million inhabitants. (Having lost 20 million after nearly a century of Mongolian conquest.)
- The Tuareg establish a state centered on Agadez.
- Amsterdam officially declared a city.
- June 15 - Bilbao is founded.
- Jacob ben Machir is appointed dean of the medical school at Montpellier.
[edit] Births
- June 1 - Thomas of Brotherton, son of Edward I of England (died 1338)
- John III (died 1355)
- Jean Buridan, French philosopher and religious skeptic (died 1358)
- Qutugtu Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire (died 1329)
- Laurence Minot, English poet (died 1352)
- Andrea Tafi, Italian artist (died 1325)
- Chihab Addine Abul-Abbas Ahmad ben Fadhl Al-Umari, Arab historian (died 1384)
[edit] Deaths
- May 2 - Blanche of Artois, regent of Navarre
- Guido Cavalcanti, Italian poet (born 1250)
- Tsar Chaka, Mongol ruler of Bulgaria
- Tran Hung Dao, Vietnamese general
- William of Nangis, French chronicler
- Munio de Zamora, General of the Dominican Order
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