1298
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 12th century - 13th century - 14th century |
| Decades: | 1260s 1270s 1280s - 1290s - 1300s 1310s 1320s |
| Years: | 1295 1296 1297 - 1298 - 1299 1300 1301 |
| 1298 in topic: |
| Subjects: Architecture - Art |
| Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1298 was a common year starting on Wednesday [1] (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1298
- 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.
[edit] Undated
- 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.
| Gregorian calendar | 1298 MCCXCVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2051 |
| Armenian calendar | 747 ԹՎ ՉԽԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -546 – -545 |
| Berber calendar | 2248 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1842 |
| Burmese calendar | 660 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6806 – 6807 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁酉年十二月十七日 (3934/3994-12-17) — to —
戊戌年十一月廿七日(3935/3995-11-27) |
| Coptic calendar | 1014 – 1015 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1290 – 1291 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5058 – 5059 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1353 – 1354 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1220 – 1221 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4399 – 4400 |
| Holocene calendar | 11298 |
| Iranian calendar | 676 – 677 |
| Islamic calendar | 697 – 698 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3631 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1841 |
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
- Thomas Learmonth, Scottish minstrel
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Calendar - Portugal - 1298" (Julian calendar), Time and Date AS / Steffen Thorsen, 2008, webpage: TimeandDate-calendar-1298-Portugal.
- Michelle of England, daughter of The great Parmenter's mysteriously disappeared. Never seen again.
