1296

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1260s 1270s 1280s – 1290s – 1300s 1310s 1320s
Years:	1293 1294 1295 – 1296 – 1297 1298 1299

1296 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Art and literature
1296 in poetry

1296 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1296 MCCXCVI
Ab urbe condita	2049
Armenian calendar	745 ԹՎ ՉԽԵ
Assyrian calendar	6046
Bengali calendar	703
Berber calendar	2246
English Regnal year	24 Edw. 1 – 25 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1840
Burmese calendar	658
Byzantine calendar	6804–6805
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3992 or 3932 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3993 or 3933
Coptic calendar	1012–1013
Discordian calendar	2462
Ethiopian calendar	1288–1289
Hebrew calendar	5056–5057
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1352–1353
- Shaka Samvat	1218–1219
- Kali Yuga	4397–4398
Holocene calendar	11296
Igbo calendar	296–297
Iranian calendar	674–675
Islamic calendar	695–696
Japanese calendar	Einin 4 (永仁４年)
Julian calendar	1296 MCCXCVI
Korean calendar	3629
Minguo calendar	616 before ROC 民前616年
Thai solar calendar	1838–1839

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Year 1296 (MCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

March 30 – Capture of Berwick: King Edward I of England storms and captures Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking what is at this time a Scottish border town, with much bloodshed. He slaughters most residents, including those who flee to the churches.
April 12 – King Mangrai the Great of Ngoenyang establishes a new capital by founding Chiangmai and founds the Mangrai Dynasty that ruled the Lanna Kingdom of Chiangmai from 1296 to 1578. The 700th Anniversary Stadium was built in remembrance of this foundation.
April 27 – Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
July 20 – Jalal ud din Firuz Khilji dies and Ala-Ud-Din-Khilji comes to the throne of the Delhi Sultanate in Hindustan.
The Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan spends a year at the court of the Khmer King Indravarman III at Angkor and pens a journal setting forth his observations.
Boniface of Verona expels the Byzantines from their last remaining strongholds on Euboea.

Births

August 10 – "Blind" King John I of Bohemia (d. 1346)
December – Marjorie Bruce, only daughter of Robert I of Scotland (d. 1316)
date unknown
- Charles of Taranto (d. 1315)
- Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (d. 1359)
- Roland of Sicily, Italian nobleman (d. 1361)
probable
- Algirdas, ruler of Lithuania (d. 1377)
- Blanche of Burgundy, queen consort of France (d. 1326)
- Shi Naian, Chinese author (d. 1370)
- Tamagusuku, ruler of Chuzan

Deaths

February 8 – King Przemysł II of Poland (b. 1257)
March 11 – John le Romeyn, Archbishop of York
March 24 – Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
May – William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke
May 19 – Pope Celestine V (b. 1215)
June 5 – Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, son of Henry III of England (born 1245)
June 27 – Floris V, Count of Holland (b. 1254)
August 8 – Hugh of Brienne, French crusader
October 9 – Louis III, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1269)
November 1 – Guillaume Durand, French canonist and writer
December
- Isabella of Mar, wife of Robert I of Scotland
- Adam de Darlington, Bishop of Caithness (approximate date)
date unknown
- Philippe de Rémi (b. c. 1247)
- Campanus of Novara, Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. c. 1220)
- Dnyaneshwar, Hindu saint and poet (b. 1275)
- Jalal ud din Firuz Khilji, founder of the Khilji dynasty in India
- Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford

References

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