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| 1300 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1300 MCCC |
| Ab urbe condita | 2053 |
| Armenian calendar | 749 ԹՎ ՉԽԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6050 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1221–1222 |
| Bengali calendar | 707 |
| Berber calendar | 2250 |
| English Regnal year | 28 Edw. 1 – 29 Edw. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1844 |
| Burmese calendar | 662 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6808–6809 |
| Chinese calendar | 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3997 or 3790 — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3998 or 3791 |
| Coptic calendar | 1016–1017 |
| Discordian calendar | 2466 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1292–1293 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5060–5061 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1356–1357 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1221–1222 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4400–4401 |
| Holocene calendar | 11300 |
| Igbo calendar | 300–301 |
| Iranian calendar | 678–679 |
| Islamic calendar | 699–700 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōan 2 (正安２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1211–1212 |
| Julian calendar | 1300 MCCC |
| Korean calendar | 3633 |
| Minguo calendar | 612 before ROC 民前612年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −168 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1842–1843 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 1426 or 1045 or 273 — to — 阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 1427 or 1046 or 274 |
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Year 1300 (MCCC) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- February 22 – The Jubilee of Pope Boniface VIII is celebrated. It is at this celebration that Giovanni Villani decides to write his universal history of Florence, the Cronica.
- June 15 – The city of Bilbao receives a royal foundation charter.
Date unknown
- Money from Florence, Italy becomes the first international currency.
- Philip IV of France begins his 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.
- The Tuareg establish a state centered on Agadez.
- Amsterdam is officially declared a city.
- Jacob ben Machir is appointed dean of the medical school at Montpellier, France.
- Aztec culture starts in Mesoamerica (approximate date).
- The Dulcinian sect begins when Gherardo Segarelli, founder of the Apostolic Brethren, is burned at the stake in Parma, during a brutal repression of the Apostolics.
Births
- June 1 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (d. 1338)
- September 27 – Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1327)
- date unknown
- John III, Duke of Brabant (d. 1355)
- Jean Buridan, French philosopher and religious skeptic (d. 1358)
- Khutughtu Khan, Emperor Mingzong of Yuan, emperor of the Yuan Dynasty (d. 1329)
- Jeanne de Clisson, French noblewoman and privateer (d. 1359)[1]
- Chihab Addine Abul-Abbas Ahmad ben Fadhl Al-Umari, Arab historian (d. 1384)
- Robert, Count of Burgundy (d. 1315)
- probable
- Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, Italian Augustinian monk (d. 1342)
- Geoffroi de Charny, French knight and chivalric writer (d. 1356)
- Richard FitzRalph, Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1360)
- Taddeo Gaddi, Italian painter and architect (d. 1366)
- Ibn Kathir, Syrian Islamic scholar (d. 1373)
- Laurence Minot, English poet (d. 1352)
- John of Winterthur, Swiss historian
Deaths
- February 19 – Munio of Zamora, Spanish General of the Dominican Order
- July 18 – Gerard Segarelli, Italian founder of the Apostolic Brethren (burned at stake)
- September – Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (approximate date; b. 1249)
- December – Jean de Montfort-Castres, Count of Squillace
- date unknown
- Guido Cavalcanti, Italian poet (b. 1250)
- Tsar Chaka, Mongol ruler of Bulgaria
- Berengaria of Castile, Lady of Guadalajara, Spanish ruler (b. 1253)
- Tran Hung Dao, Vietnamese general
- Jacob van Maerlant, Flemish poet
- Jeanne de Montfort de Chambéon, Swiss ruler (b. 1250)
- William of Nangis, French chronicler
In fiction
- March 25 (April 2 in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar, Good Friday) – The date of Dante's journey as the protagonist in his own epic poem, The Divine Comedy. Beginning with the Inferno, he made many cultural references to his time.
- Till Eulenspiegel is said to have been born in this year.
References
- ^ Axelrod, Alan (2013). Mercenaries: A Guide to Private Armies and Private Military Companies. CQ Press. p. 174. ISBN 9781483364674.
Further reading
- Alexandra Gajewski & Zoë Opacic (ed.), The Year 1300 and the Creation of a New European Architecture (Architectura Medii Aevi, 1), Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007. ISBN 978-2-503-52286-9