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| Years: 1297 1298 1299 - 1300 - 1301 1302 1303 |
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| Decades: 1270s 1280s 1290s - 1300s - 1310s 1320s 1330s |
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| Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century |
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| 1300 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1300 MCCC |
| Ab urbe condita | 2053 |
| Armenian calendar | 749 ԹՎ ՉԽԹ |
| Chinese calendar | 3936/3996-12-9 (己亥年十二月初九日) — to —
3937/3997-11-20(庚子年十一月二十日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1292 – 1293 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5060 – 5061 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1355 – 1356 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1222 – 1223 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4401 – 4402 |
| Iranian calendar | 678 – 679 |
| Islamic calendar | 699 – 700 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 1960 (皇紀1960年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11300 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1843 |
[edit] Events
- February 22 - Jubilee of Pope Boniface VIII.
- March 10 - Wardrobe accounts of King Edward I of England (aka Edward Longshanks) include a reference to a game called creag being played at the town of Newenden in Kent. It is generally agreed that creag was an early form of cricket.
See also: History of cricket to 1696. - March 25 - Dante descends to the Inferno in The Divine Comedy.
- Money from Florence, Italy becomes the first International Currency.
- Philip IV of France begins attempt to annex Flanders.
- Wenceslas II of Bohemia becomes King of Poland.
- 1300 - Medieval warm period just finished.
- A census in Imperial China finds that it has roughly 60 million inhabitants. (Having lost 20 million after nearly a century of Mongolian conquest.)
- The Tuareg establish a state centered on Agadez.
- Amsterdam officially declared a city.
- June 15 - Bilbao is founded.
[edit] Births
- June 1 - Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (died 1338)
- John III, Duke of Brabant (died 1355)
- Jean Buridan, French philosopher and religious skeptic (died 1358)
- Qutugtu Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire (died 1329)
- Laurence Minot, English poet (died 1352)
- Andrea Tafi, Italian artist (died 1325)
- Chihab Addine Abul-Abbas Ahmad ben Fadhl Al-Umari, Arab historian (died 1384)
[edit] Deaths
- May 2 - Blanche of Artois, regent of Navarre
- Guido Cavalcanti, Italian poet (born 1250)
- Tsar Chaka, Mongol ruler of Bulgaria
- Tran Hung Dao, Vietnamese general
- William of Nangis, French chronicler
- Munio de Zamora, General of the Dominican Order
