1296

'Years:' 1293 1294 1295 - 1296 - 1297 1298 1299

'Decades:' 1260s 1270s 1280s - '1290s' - 1300s 1310s 1320s

'Centuries:' 12th century - '13th century' - 14th century

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ March 30 - Edward I stormed Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking the then Scottish border town with much bloodshed. He slaughtered almost everyone who resided there, even if they fled to the churches.

★ April 27 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.

★ Alauddin Khilji succeeds on the throne of the Delhi Sultanate, as a member of the Khilji dynasty.

★ 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.

Births

★ August 10 - John I, Count of Luxemburg (died 1346)

★ Marjorie Bruce, only daughter of Robert I of Scotland (died 1316)

★ Shi Nai'an, Chinese author (died 1370)

★ Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (died 1359)

★ inuyasha, it was made in 1996 and kagome goes 500 years in the past so she is in 1496 and inuyasha was born 200 years before that which is 1296

Deaths

★ February 8 - King Przemysł II of Poland (b. 1257)

★ May 19 - Pope Celestine V (born 1215)

★ June 5 - Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, son of Henry III of England (born 1245)

★ August 8 - Hugh of Brienne, French crusader

★ November 1 - Guillaume Durand, French canonist and writer

★ Butvydas, Grand Prince of Lithuania

★ Dnyaneshwar, Hindu saint and poet (born 1275)

★ Floris V, Count of Holland (born 1254)

★ Jalal ud din Firuz Khilji, founder of the Khilji dynasty in India

★ Isabella of Mar, wife of Robert I of Scotland

★ William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke