1298

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 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Art and literature
1298 in poetry

Year 1298 (MCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

April 20 – beginning of the Rintfleisch-Pogrom, the Jews of Röttingen are burned en masse, other Jewish communities destroyed later in the year
June 1 – residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida
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 foreign creditors of the Sienese Gran Tavola bank start demanding their deposits back thus accelerating the liquidity crisis faced by the firm.^[1]

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.

The Chinese governmental minister Wang Zhen (official) invents wooden movable type printing (Bi Sheng invented ceramic movable type in the 11th century).

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

April 17 – Árni Þorláksson, Icelandic bishop (b. 1237)
July 2 – King Adolf of Germany (b. c. 1255)
July 13 – Jacobus de Voragine, Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa
July 22 – Sir John de Graham, Scottish soldier at the Battle of Falkirk
July 23 – King Thoros III of Armenia (b. c. 1271)
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 the Hardy, Lord of Douglas, Scottish warlord
- Thomas Learmonth, Scottish minstrel

^ Catoni, Giuliano. "BONSIGNORI". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/bonsignori_(Dizionario-Biografico)/. Retrieved 20 December 2011.