1298

Events

• July - Emperor Go-Fushimi succeeds Emperor Fushimi on the throne of Japan.
• July 2 - Battle of Göllheim: Albert I of Habsburg defeats and kills Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
• July 22 - Battle of Falkirk: King Edward I of England defeats a Scottish army led by William Wallace.
• September 9 - Battle of Curzola: the Genoese fleet defeats the Venetians. Marco Polo is one of the prisoners taken, and while in prison in Genoa, he begins dictating his Travels to a local writer.
• The Chinese governmental minister Wang Zhen (official) invents wooden movable type printing (Bi Sheng invented ceramic movable type in the 11th century).
• Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, and Pope Gregory I are named the first Doctors of the Church. They are known collectively as the Great Doctors of the Western Church.

Births

• December 12 - Albert II of Austria (d. 1358)
• date unknown
• Charles, Duke of Calabria (d. 1328)
• Elisabeth of Carinthia, queen consort of Sicily (d. after 1347)
• Ibn Juzayy, Islamic scholar (d. 1340)
• Sir Andrew Murray, Scottish soldier (d. 1338)
• probable - William Irvine, Scottish soldier

Deaths

• April 17 - Árni Þorláksson, Icelandic bishop (b. 1237)
• July 2 - King Adolf of Germany (b. c. 1255)
• July 22 - Sir John de Graham, Scottish soldier at the Battle of Falkirk
• July 23 - King Thoros III of Armenia (b. c. 1271)
• July 13 - Jacobus de Voragine, Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa
• July 22 - John de Graham, Scottish soldier (in battle)
• August 29 - Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar (b. 1269)
• September 11 - Philip of Artois, French soldier (b. 1269)
• September 29 - Guido I da Montefeltro, Italian military strategist (b. 1223)
• November 19 - Saint Mechtilde, Saxon saint (b. c. 1240)
• date unknown
• Archibald, Scottish prelate
• Auhaduddin Kermani, Sufi poet
• Gerard of Lunel, French saint
• William Houghton, Archbishop of Dublin
• John of Procida, Italian physician and diplomat (b. 1210)
• Jolenta of Poland, Hungarian princess (b. 1235)
• Mordecai ben Hillel, German rabbi (b. c. 1250)
• Nino Visconti, ruler of Gallula
• Emperor Smilets of Bulgaria (b. 1292)
• probable - William Douglas the Hardy, Scottish warlord

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