1297

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1270s 1280s 1290s 1300s 1310s
Years:	1294 1295 1296 1297 1298 1299 1300

1297 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1297 MCCXCVII
Ab urbe condita	2050
Armenian calendar	746 ԹՎ ՉԽԶ
Assyrian calendar	6047
Balinese saka calendar	1218–1219
Bengali calendar	704
Berber calendar	2247
English Regnal year	25 Edw. 1 – 26 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1841
Burmese calendar	659
Byzantine calendar	6805–6806
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3994 or 3787     — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 3995 or 3788
Coptic calendar	1013–1014
Discordian calendar	2463
Ethiopian calendar	1289–1290
Hebrew calendar	5057–5058
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1353–1354
- Shaka Samvat	1218–1219
- Kali Yuga	4397–4398
Holocene calendar	11297
Igbo calendar	297–298
Iranian calendar	675–676
Islamic calendar	696–697
Japanese calendar	Einin 5 (永仁５年)
Javanese calendar	1208–1209
Julian calendar	1297 MCCXCVII
Korean calendar	3630
Minguo calendar	615 before ROC 民前615年
Nanakshahi calendar	−171
Thai solar calendar	1839–1840
Tibetan calendar	阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1423 or 1042 or 270     — to — 阴火鸡年 (female Fire-Rooster) 1424 or 1043 or 271

Year 1297 (MCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 8 – The forces of Francesco Grimaldi storm the castle of Monaco (the House of Grimaldi will remain rulers of the principality into the 21st Century).
• May 3 – Near Rome, Stefano Colonna captures the treasure sent by the Caetani family to the Pope.
• July 11 – King Louis IX of France is canonized.
• August 28 – Edward I of England unsuccessfully invades Flanders.
• September 11 – Battle of Stirling Bridge: The Scottish armies of Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeat the English.
• September 12 – King Denis of Portugal and King Ferdinand IV of Castile sign the Treaty of Alcanizes. The geographic limits of Portugal are fixed permanently (with the exception of São Félix de Galegos, lost in 1640 and Olivenza, lost in 1801).

Date unknown

• As part of the Treaty of Anagni, the king of Aragon is recognized as ruler of the Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica by the Pope, but both islands remain in practice under Pisan and Genoese control.
• A Portuguese Water Dog is first described in a monk’s report of a drowning sailor, who had been pulled from the sea by a dog.
• Sanremo is sold to the Doria and De Mari Families.

Births

• March 25
  • Arnošt of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (d. 1364)
  • Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1341)
• August 14 – Emperor Hanazono of Japan (d. 1348)
• date unknown
  • Joseph Caspi, Provençal grammarian (d. 1340)
  • Charles II, Count of Alençon 1325–1346, Count of Joigny 1335–1336 (d. 1346)
  • Kęstutis, Grand Prince of Lithuania (d. 1382)
  • Louis of Burgundy, King of Thessalonica (d. 1316)
  • Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell (d. 1349)
• probable
  • Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman, Sultan of Morocco (d. 1351)
  • Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell, sister-in-law of King Edward II of England and mother-in-law of Edward, the Black Prince

Deaths

• January 23 – Florent of Hainaut, Prince of Achaea (b. c. 1255)
• February 22 – Saint Margaret of Cortona (b. 1247)
• March – Patriarch John XI of Constantinople (b. c. 1225)
• May 18 – Nicholas Longespee, Bishop of Salisbury
• August 13 – Nawrūz, Mongol emir
• August 14 – Frederick III, Burgrave of Nuremberg (b. c. 1220)
• August 16 – John II, Emperor of Trebizond (b. c. 1262)
• August 19 – Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop (b. 1274)
• August 20 – William Fraser, bishop and Guardian of Scotland
• September – Andrew Moray, Scottish resistance leader
• September 11 – Hugh de Cressingham, English Treasurer
• December 28 – Hugh Aycelin, French cardinal (b. 1230)
• date unknown
  • Ronald Crawford, Scottish clan chief (b. c. 1240)
  • Guido I da Polenta, Lord of Ravenna
  • Marianus II of Arborea, Judge of Arborea
• probable – Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas, ruler of Epirus