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Years: 1294 1295 1296 - 1297 - 1298 1299 1300
Decades: 1260s 1270s 1280s - 1290s - 1300s 1310s 1320s
Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century

Events

January 8 - Monaco gains independence.
August 28 - Edward I unsuccessfully invades Flanders.
September 11 - Battle of Stirling Bridge: The Scottish armies of Andrew de Moray and William Wallace defeat the English.
September 12 - King Diniz of Portugal and King Fernando IV of Spain sign the Treaty of Alcanizes. The geographic limits of Portugal are fixed permanently, with the exception of São Félix de Galegos, lost in 1640 and Olivenza, lost in 1801.
King Louis IX of France is canonized.

Ongoing

War of the Sicilian Vespers (1284-1302)
First War of Scottish Independence (1296-1328)

Births

March 25

Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (d. 1364)
Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1341)

August 14 - Emperor Hanazono of Japan (d. 1348)
date unknown

Joseph Caspi, Provençal grammarian (d. 1340)
Charles II of Alençon,Count of Alençon and Perche 1325–1346, Count of Joigny 1335–1336 (d. 1346)
Kęstutis, Grand Prince of Lithuania (d. 1382)
Louis of Burgundy, King of Thessalonica (d. 1316)
Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell (d. 1349)

probable

Abu Al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman, Sultan of Morocco (d. 1351)
Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake, sister-in-law of King Edward II of England and mother-in-law of Edward, the Black Prince

Deaths

January 23 - Florent of Hainaut, Prince of Achaea (b. c. 1255)
February 22 - Saint Margaret of Cortona (b. 1247)
March - Patriarch John XI of Constantinople (b. c. 1225)
May 18 - Nicholas Longespee, Bishop of Salisbury
August 13 - Nawrūz, Mongol emir
August 14 - Frederick III, Burgrave of Nuremberg (b. c. 1220)
August 16 - John II, Emperor of Trebizond (b. c. 1262)
August 19 - Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop (b. 1274)
August 20 - William Fraser, bishop and Guardian of Scotland
September - Andrew Moray, Scottish resistance leader
September 11 - Hugh de Cressingham, English Treasurer
December 28 - Hugh Aycelin, French cardinal (b. 1230)
December 31 - Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1249)
date unknown

Ronald Crawford, Scottish clan chief (b. c. 1240)
Guido I da Polenta, Lord of Ravenna
Marianus II of Arborea, Judge of Arborea

probable - Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas, ruler of Epirus

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