1298
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| 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 | |
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| 1298 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1298 MCCXCVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2051 |
| Armenian calendar | 747 ԹՎ ՉԽԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6048 |
| Bengali calendar | 705 |
| Berber calendar | 2248 |
| English Regnal year | 26 Edw. 1 – 27 Edw. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1842 |
| Burmese calendar | 660 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6806–6807 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 3994 or 3934 — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 3995 or 3935 |
| Coptic calendar | 1014–1015 |
| Discordian calendar | 2464 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1290–1291 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5058–5059 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1354–1355 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1220–1221 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4399–4400 |
| Holocene calendar | 11298 |
| Igbo calendar | 298–299 |
| Iranian calendar | 676–677 |
| Islamic calendar | 697–698 |
| Japanese calendar | Einin 6 (永仁６年) |
| Julian calendar | 1298 MCCXCVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3631 |
| Minguo calendar | 614 before ROC 民前614年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1840–1841 |
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Year 1298 (MCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By area
Asia
- July – Emperor Go-Fushimi succeeds Emperor Fushimi on the throne of Japan.
- John Tarchaneiotes is appointed governor of the southern portions of Byzantine Anatolia.
Europe
- April 20 – Beginning of the Rintfleisch-Pogrom, the Jews of Röttingen are burned en masse, other Jewish communities are destroyed later in the year
- June 1 – residents of Riga and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida
- July 2 – Battle of Göllheim:[1]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.[2] A majority of Edward's infantry are Welsh.[3]
- August 1 – Foundation of the "ideal city" of Marciac, Gascogne, France through the king Philippe IV le Bel and Guichard de Marzé.[4]
- 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 Rustichello da Pisa.
By topic
Markets
- The foreign creditors of the Sienese Gran Tavola bank start demanding their deposits back thus accelerating the liquidity crisis faced by the firm.[5]
Religion
- 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.
Technology
- The Chinese governmental minister Wang Zhen (official) invents wooden movable type printing (Bi Sheng invented ceramic movable type in the 11th century).
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)
- June 11 – Jolenta of Poland, Hungarian princess (b. 1235)
- 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)
- 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
References
- ↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ name="Cassell's Chronology"Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ Bartlett, W. B. The Taming of the Dragon.
- ↑ Jacques, Barnouin (2014). The fabulous Destiny of Marciac . Albi, France: Un autre Reg'Art. ISBN 979-10-90894-67-9.
- ↑ Catoni, Giuliano. "BONSIGNORI". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Retrieved 20 December 2011.