1296
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This article is about the year 1296.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1260s 1270s 1280s – 1290s – 1300s 1310s 1320s |
| Years: | 1293 1294 1295 – 1296 – 1297 1298 1299 |
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| 1296 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1296 MCCXCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2049 |
| Armenian calendar | 745 ԹՎ ՉԽԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6046 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -548–-547 |
| 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 | 乙未年十一月廿五日 (3932/3992-11-25) — to —
丙申年十二月初六日(3933/3993-12-6) |
| Coptic calendar | 1012–1013 |
| 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 |
| Iranian calendar | 674–675 |
| Islamic calendar | 695–696 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3629 |
| Minguo calendar | 616 before ROC 民前616年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 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.
[edit] Events
- March 30 – Edward I storms Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking the then 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 established a new capital by founding Chiangmai and founded the Mangrai Dynasty that ruled the Lanna Kingdom of Chiangmai from 1296 to 1578.
- April 27 – Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
- 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.
- Jalal ud din Firuz Khilji dies and Ala-Ud-Din-Khilji comes to the throne of the Delhi Sultanate in Hindustan.
[edit] 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
- 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
[edit] Deaths
- February 8 – King Przemysł II of Poland (b. 1257)
- March 11 – John le Romeyn, Archbishop of York
- 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
- Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
- Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford
