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| Gregorian calendar | 1284 MCCLXXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2037 |
| Armenian calendar | 733 ԹՎ ՉԼԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6034 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1205–1206 |
| Bengali calendar | 691 |
| Berber calendar | 2234 |
| English Regnal year | 12 Edw. 1 – 13 Edw. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1828 |
| Burmese calendar | 646 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6792–6793 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸未年 (Water Goat) 3981 or 3774 — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3982 or 3775 |
| Coptic calendar | 1000–1001 |
| Discordian calendar | 2450 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1276–1277 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5044–5045 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1340–1341 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1205–1206 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4384–4385 |
| Holocene calendar | 11284 |
| Igbo calendar | 284–285 |
| Iranian calendar | 662–663 |
| Islamic calendar | 682–683 |
| Japanese calendar | Kōan 7 (弘安７年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1194–1195 |
| Julian calendar | 1284 MCCLXXXIV |
| Korean calendar | 3617 |
| Minguo calendar | 628 before ROC 民前628年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −184 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1826–1827 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 1410 or 1029 or 257 — to — 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 1411 or 1030 or 258 |
Year 1284 (MCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By area
Africa
- Putting an end to the Bedouin rebellion that had toppled his brother in 1283, Abu Hafs Umar I reconquers Tunis, and reinstalls the Hafsids as the dominating dynasty in Ifriqiya.[1]
- Peter III of Aragon takes advantage of the weakness of the Hafsid Dynasty, and raids the island of Jerba. The Aragonese massacre the population, and occupy the island.[1]
Asia
- Mamluk sultan of Egypt Al Mansur Qalawun signs a ten-year truce with the Crusader city of Acre; he will violate the truce on various pretexts in 1290.
- The Byzantine city Tralles falls to the Turkish emirate of Menteşe; 20,000 people are led off as slaves.
Europe
- March 3 – The Statute of Rhuddlan extends English law to Wales.[2]
- June 5 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: King Charles II of Naples is captured by Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon.
- May 18 – Jönköping in Sweden is granted town privileges.[3]
- August 5–6 – Battle of Meloria: The Italian city-state of Genoa defeats its rival Pisa at sea, ending Pisa's marine power and hastening the city's decline in power.
- September 9 – German warlord Trunda makes a campaign to Karelia to tax Karelians but is defeated by Novgorod and the men from Staraya Ladoga.[4]
- King Stefan Dragutin of Serbia receives Belgrade, Syrmia, and other territories from Hungary, when his son marries the king of Hungary's cousin.
- The Kingdom of Germany imposes a trade embargo on Norway, due to the latter pillaging a German ship. The embargo cuts off vital supplies of grain, flour, vegetables and beer, causing a general famine.[5]
- The German city of Hamburg is destroyed by a fire.
- The events giving rise to the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin take place in Lower Saxony.[6]
By topic
Arts and culture
- Construction of Beauvais Cathedral is interrupted by a partial collapse of the choir; the event unnerves French masons working in the Gothic style.
- Jean de Meun translates Vegetius' 4th century military treatise De Re Militari from Latin into French.
Education
- Peterhouse, the oldest collegiate foundation of the University of Cambridge in England, is established by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely.
Health
- The al-Mansuri bimaristan (hospital) is completed in Cairo.[7]
Markets
- The Republic of Venice begins coining the ducat, a gold coin that is to become the standard of European coinage, for the following 600 years.
Births
- April 25 – King Edward II of England (d. 1327)[8]
- April 26 – Alice de Toeni, Countess of Warwick (d. 1324)
- date unknown
Deaths
- March 24 – Hugh III of Cyprus (b. 1235)
- April – Adelaide of Holland, regent of Holland (b. c.1230)
- April 4 – King Alfonso X of Castile (b. 1221)
- April 20 – Hōjō Tokimune, regent of Japan (b. 1251)
- August 10 – Tekuder, Khan of the Mongol Ilkhanate (executed)
- August 19 – Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (b. 1273)
- December – Irene Komnene Palaiologina (Eulogia), member of the Byzantine imperial family and nun (b. c.1218)
References
- ^ a b Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte. pp. 161–3. ISBN 978-2-7071-5231-2.
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 148–150. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ "Årtal och händelser i Jönköping" (in Swedish). Jönköpings historia. Retrieved February 12, 2011.
- ^ Linna, Martti, ed. (1989). Suomen varhaiskeskiajan lähteitä. Historian aitta. p. 138. ISBN 951-96006-1-2.
- ^ "Lecture on Economics in 1284". Stanford University. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011.
- ^ according to the earliest written record, of 1384, in the city records of Hamelin. Harty, Sheila (1994). "Pied Piper Revisited". In Bridges, David; McLaughlin, Terence H. (eds.). Education And The Market Place. Routledge. p. 89. ISBN 0-7507-0348-2.
- ^ "Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts _ Hospitals". Retrieved November 8, 2011.
- ^ "Edward II of England: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk. Retrieved March 21, 2019.