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Years: 1299 1300 1301 - 1302 - 1303 1304 1305

Decades: 1270s 1280s 1290s - 1300s - 1310s 1320s 1330s

Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century

Events

• May 18 - Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia
• June 12 - Rakvere, Estonia, receives Lübeck city rights.
• July 11 - Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch): Flanders gains a major victory over the French.
• September 24 - Charles II of Naples makes peace with Frederick III of Sicily under the Treaty of Caltabellotta, ending the War of Sicilian Vespers.
• November 18 - Boniface VIII publishes the bull Unam Sanctam.
• Roger de Flor founds the Catalan Company, with soldiers (Almogavars) jobless after the Treaty of Caltabellotta.
• Castile occupies the harbor of Algiers.
• Jicin, Bohemia is chartered as a city.
• Pope Boniface VIII suppresses the Franciscans.
• The French States-General meets for the first time.
• Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence by the Black Guelphs, as is Petrarch's father (see Guelphs and Ghibellines).
• Robert I of Scotland reconciles with Edward I of England.
• Philip IV of France confiscates Jewish property.
• Confucian Temple erected in Beijing.

Births

• December 7 - Azzone Visconti, Lord of Milan (d. 1339)
• date unknown
• Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Islamic scholar (d. 1367)
• Andrew Corsini, Italian bishop (d. 1373)
• Domhnall II, Earl of Mar (d. 1332)

Deaths

• March 9 - Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Arundel (b. 1267)
• March 20 - Ralph Walpole, Bishop of Norwich
• July 11 - Pierre Flotte, French politician and lawyer
• November 17 - St. Gertrude the Great
• December 31 - Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1238)
• date unknown
• Al-Hakim I, Caliph of Cairo
• Eudokia Palaiologina, Empress of Trebizond (b. c. 1265)
• Godfrey Giffard, English bishop and politician (b. c. 1235)
• Valdemar I of Sweden (b. 1243)
• Hu Sansheng, a Song Dynasty Chinese historian (b. 1230)
• probable
• Cimabue, Florentine painter who discovered Giotto
• Infanta Sancha of Portugal (b. 1264)

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