1299
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This article is about the year 1299.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1260s 1270s 1280s – 1290s – 1300s 1310s 1320s |
| Years: | 1296 1297 1298 – 1299 – 1300 1301 1302 |
| 1299 by topic | |
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| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
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| Art and literature | |
| 1299 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1299 MCCXCIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2052 |
| Armenian calendar | 748 ԹՎ ՉԽԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6049 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -545–-544 |
| Bengali calendar | 706 |
| Berber calendar | 2249 |
| English Regnal year | 27 Edw. 1 – 28 Edw. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1843 |
| Burmese calendar | 661 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6807–6808 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年十一月廿八日 (3935/3995-11-28) — to —
己亥年十二月初八日(3936/3996-12-8) |
| Coptic calendar | 1015–1016 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1291–1292 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5059–5060 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1355–1356 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1221–1222 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4400–4401 |
| Holocene calendar | 11299 |
| Iranian calendar | 677–678 |
| Islamic calendar | 698–699 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3632 |
| Minguo calendar | 613 before ROC 民前613年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1842 |
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Year 1299 (MCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Asia
- Osman I declares the independence of the Ottoman Principality.
- A Mongol khan launches a campaign into India with 200,000 men, but the sultan of Delhi defeats them.
[edit] Europe
- April – Scots take Stirling Castle from the English after a siege.
- April 1 – Kings Towne on the River Hull (Kingston upon Hull) is granted city status by Royal Charter of King Edward I of England.
- July 31 – Pisa and Genoa agree to a thirty year truce. Part of the treaty includes the end of the Pisan support to Genoa's enemies, in particular Sinucello della Rocca in Corsica.[1]
- November 1 – Håkon V Magnusson becomes king of Norway.
- December 1 – Battle of Falconaria: Frederick II of Sicily defeats Philip I of Taranto.
- The House of Holland becomes extinct. The County of Holland becomes part of a personal union with the County of Hainaut.
- A serious fire occurs at Westminster Palace.
- Early evidence of the king of England borrowing from the Italian merchants. Edward I obtains a loan of 2,000 pollard marks from the agents of the Frescobaldi firm in London.[2]
[edit] By topic
[edit] Education
- The first (and largest) of the institutions that were to become Ipswich School was established.
[edit] Markets
- The city of Florence bans the use of Arabic numerals for commerce, allowing only Roman numerals.
[edit] Births
- date unknown
- Alfonso IV of Aragon (d. 1366)
- Pierre Bertrand de Colombier, French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1361)
- Dmitri of Tver, Grand Prince of Vladimir (d. 1326)
- Maria of Aragon, princess of Aragon (d. 1316)
- probable
- Ranulf Higdon, English chronicler (d. c. 1363)
- Malatesta II Malatesta, Italian condottiero (d. 1364)
[edit] Deaths
- May 17 – Daumantas of Pskov, Lithuanian prince (b. c. 1240)
- July 15 – King Eric II of Norway (b. c. 1268)
- November 10 – John I, Count of Holland (b. 1284)
- November 13 – Oliver Sutton, Bishop of Lincoln
- December 9 – Bohemond I, Archbishop of Trier
- date unknown
- John Giffard, English baron (b. 1232)
- Gottfried Hagen, German chronicler (b. 1230)
- Conrad de Lichtenberg, Bishop of Strasbourg (b. 1240)
- Nogai Khan, ruler of the Golden Horde
- Zafar Khan, Indian military leader
- Yakut al-Mustasim, Turkish secretary of the last Abbasid caliph
- probable – Nicholas of Autrecourt, French philosopher and theologian (d. c. 1369)
[edit] References
- ^ Cancelleri, J.-A.. "Sinucello della Rocca". Dizionario biografico. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/sinucello-della-rocca_(Dizionario-Biografico)/. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
- ^ Ferris, Eleanor (1902). "The Financial Relations of the Knights Templars to the English Crown". American Historical Review 8 (1).
