Events of 1299

• April - Scots take Stirling Castle from the English after a siege.
• April 1 - Kings Towne on the River Hull(Kingston upon Hull) is granted city status by Royal Charter of King Edward I of England.
• December 1 - Battle of Falconaria: Frederick II of Sicily defeats Philip I of Taranto.

Undated

• Osman I declares the independence of the Ottoman Principality.
• The House of Holland becomes extinct. The County of Holland becomes part of a personal union with the County of Hainaut.
• King Håkon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo, and builds Akershus Fortress there. Norway is ruled from this fortress the next 500 years.
• A serious fire occurs at Westminster Palace.
• A Mongol khan launches a campaign into India with 200,000 men, but the sultan of Delhi defeats them.

Births

• date unknown
• Alfonso IV of Aragon (d. 1366)
• Pierre Bertrand de Colombier, French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1361)
• Dmitri of Tver, Grand Prince of Vladimir (d. 1326)
• Maria of Aragon, princess of Aragon (d. 1316)
• probable
• Ranulf Higdon, English chronicler (d. c. 1363)
• Malatesta II Malatesta, Italian condottiero (d. 1364)

Also see 1299 births.

Deaths

• May 17 - Daumantas of Pskov, Lithuanian prince (b. c. 1240)
• July 15 - King Eric II of Norway (b. c. 1268)
• November 10 - John I, Count of Holland (b. 1284)
• November 13 - Oliver Sutton, Bishop of Lincoln
• December 9 - Bohemond I, Archbishop of Trier
• date unknown
• John Giffard, English baron (b. 1232)
• Gottfried Hagen, German chronicler (b. 1230)
• Conrad de Lichtenberg, Bishop of Strasbourg (b. 1240)
• Nogai Khan, ruler of the Golden Horde
• Zafar Khan, Indian military leader
• probable - Nicholas of Autrecourt, French philosopher and theologian (d. c. 1369)

Also see 1299 deaths.

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