1300

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1270s 1280s 1290s – 1300s – 1310s 1320s 1330s
Years:	1297 1298 1299 – 1300 – 1301 1302 1303

1300 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Art and literature
1300 in poetry

1300 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1300 MCCC
Ab urbe condita	2053
Armenian calendar	749 ԹՎ ՉԽԹ
Assyrian calendar	6050
Bengali calendar	707
Berber calendar	2250
English Regnal year	28 Edw. 1 – 29 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1844
Burmese calendar	662
Byzantine calendar	6808–6809
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3996 or 3936 — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3997 or 3937
Coptic calendar	1016–1017
Discordian calendar	2466
Ethiopian calendar	1292–1293
Hebrew calendar	5060–5061
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1356–1357
- Shaka Samvat	1222–1223
- Kali Yuga	4401–4402
Holocene calendar	11300
Igbo calendar	300–301
Iranian calendar	678–679
Islamic calendar	699–700
Japanese calendar	Shōan 2 (正安２年)
Julian calendar	1300 MCCC
Korean calendar	3633
Minguo calendar	612 before ROC 民前612年
Thai solar calendar	1842–1843

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Charon coming to ferry souls to Hell, in Canto 10 of The Divine Comedy. The engraving is by Doré.

Year 1300 (MCCC) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

February 22 – The Jubilee of Pope Boniface VIII is celebrated. It is at this celebration that Giovanni Villani decides to write his universal history of Florence, the Cronica.
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).
June 15 – The city of Bilbao receives a royal foundation charter.

Money from Florence, Italy becomes the first international currency.
Philip IV of France begins his attempt to annex Flanders.
Wenceslas II of Bohemia becomes King of Poland.
A census in Imperial China finds that it has roughly 60 million inhabitants.
The Tuareg establish a state centered on Agadez.
Amsterdam is officially declared a city.
Jacob ben Machir is appointed dean of the medical school at Montpellier.
Aztec culture starts in Mesoamerica (approximate date).
The Dulcinian sect begins when Gherardo Segarelli, founder of the Apostolic Brethren, is burned at the stake in Parma during a brutal repression of the Apostolics

March 21 – Henry Suso, German mystic (d. 1366)
June 1 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (d. 1338)
September 27 – Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1327)
date unknown
- John III, Duke of Brabant (d. 1355)
- Jean Buridan, French philosopher and religious skeptic (d. 1358)
- Khutughtu Khan, Emperor Mingzong of Yuan, emperor of the Yuan Dynasty (d. 1329)
- Chihab Addine Abul-Abbas Ahmad ben Fadhl Al-Umari, Arab historian (d. 1384)
- Robert, Count of Burgundy (d. 1315)
probable
- Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, Augustinian monk (d. 1342)
- Geoffroi de Charny, French knight and chivalric writer (d. 1356)
- Richard FitzRalph, Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1360)
- Taddeo Gaddi, Italian painter and architect (d. 1366)
- John of Winterthur, Swiss historian
- Laurence Minot, English poet (d. 1352)

March 25 (April 2 in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar, Good Friday) – The date of Dante's journey as the protagonist in his own epic poem, The Divine Comedy. Beginning with the Inferno, he made many cultural references to his time.
Till Eulenspiegel is said to have been born in this year.

Alexandra Gajewski & Zoë Opacic (ed.), The Year 1300 and the Creation of a New European Architecture (Architectura Medii Aevi, 1), Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007. ISBN 978-2-503-52286-9