1300

'Years:' 1297 1298 1299 - 1300 - 1301 1302 1303

'Decades:' 1270s 1280s 1290s - '1300s' - 1310s 1320s 1330s

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

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ February 22 - Jubilee of Pope Boniface VIII.

★ 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.

★ March 25 - Dante descends to the Inferno in The Divine Comedy.

★ Money from Florence, Italy becomes the first International Currency.

★ Philip IV of France begins 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. (Having lost 20 million after nearly a century of Mongolian conquest.)

★ The Tuareg establish a state centered on Agadez.

★ Amsterdam officially declared a city.

★ June 15 - Bilbao is founded.

★ Jacob ben Machir is appointed dean of the medical school at Montpellier.

Births

★ June 1 - Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (died 1338)

★ John III, Duke of Brabant (died 1355)

★ Jean Buridan, French philosopher and religious skeptic (died 1358)

★ Qutugtu Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire (died 1329)

★ Laurence Minot, English poet (died 1352)

★ Andrea Tafi, Italian artist (died 1325)

★ Chihab Addine Abul-Abbas Ahmad ben Fadhl Al-Umari, Arab historian (died 1384)

Deaths

★ May 2 - Blanche of Artois, regent of Navarre

★ Guido Cavalcanti, Italian poet (born 1250)

★ Tsar Chaka, Mongol ruler of Bulgaria

★ Tran Hung Dao, Vietnamese general

★ William of Nangis, French chronicler

★ Munio de Zamora, General of the Dominican Order