1294

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Years:	1291 1292 1293 – 1294 – 1295 1296 1297

1294 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1294 in poetry

1294 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1294 MCCXCIV
Ab urbe condita	2047
Armenian calendar	743 ԹՎ ՉԽԳ
Assyrian calendar	6044
Bengali calendar	701
Berber calendar	2244
English Regnal year	22 Edw. 1 – 23 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1838
Burmese calendar	656
Byzantine calendar	6802–6803
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3990 or 3930     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3991 or 3931
Coptic calendar	1010–1011
Discordian calendar	2460
Ethiopian calendar	1286–1287
Hebrew calendar	5054–5055
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1350–1351
- Shaka Samvat	1216–1217
- Kali Yuga	4395–4396
Holocene calendar	11294
Igbo calendar	294–295
Iranian calendar	672–673
Islamic calendar	693–694
Japanese calendar	Einin 2 (永仁２年)
Julian calendar	1294 MCCXCIV
Korean calendar	3627
Minguo calendar	618 before ROC 民前618年
Thai solar calendar	1836–1837

Year 1294 (MCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• July 5 – Pope Celestine V succeeds Nicholas IV, becoming the 192nd pope.
• Autumn – In response to the actions of new royal administrators in north and west Wales, Madog ap Llywelyn leads a revolt against his English overlords.
• December 24 – Pope Boniface VIII succeeds Pope Celestine V, becoming the 193rd pope, after Celestine V abdicates the papacy on December 13, only five months after reluctantly accepting his surprise election on July 5, wishing to return to his life as an ascetic hermit.
• The death of Kublai Khan. By this time the separation of the four khanates of the Mongol Empire (the Chagatai Khanate in Central Asia, the Golden Horde in Russia, the Ilkhanate in Persia, and the Yuan Dynasty in China) had deepened.
• John Balliol, King of Scotland, decides to refuse King Edward I of England's demands for support in a planned invasion of France, the result being the negotiation of the Auld Alliance with France and Norway in the following year. These actions play a part in precipitating the Scottish Wars of Independence, which begin in 1296.
• Strata Florida Abbey is rebuilt; it had been destroyed some years earlier in King Edward I of England's conquest of Wales.
• Architect Arnolfo di Cambio designs the Florentine cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore, better known simply as Il Duomo. He also begins work on the Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze, also in Florence.
• England and Portugal enter into the first iteration of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, the oldest alliance in the world still in force.
• Edward I of England and Philip the Fair of France declare war on each other. To finance this war, both kings lay taxes on the clergy. Pope Boniface VIII insists that kings gain papal consent of taxation of the clergy and forbids churchmen to pay taxes.

Births

• June 18 (or 19) – Charles IV of France (d. 1328)
• John, Duke of Durazzo (d. 1336)
• date unknown – Kusunoki Masashige, Japanese samurai (d. 1336)

Deaths

Kublai Khan

• February 18 – Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (b. 1215)
• May 3 – John I, Duke of Brabant
• June 12 – John I of Brienne, Count of Eu
• December 25 – Mściwój II of Pomerania
• date unknown
  • Emperor Yagbe'u Seyon of Ethiopia
  • Brunetto Latini, Florentine philosopher (b. c. 1220)
  • Dmitri of Pereslavl, Grand Duke of Vladimir-Suzdal

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