1298

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Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1260s  1270s  1280s  – 1290s –  1300s  1310s  1320s
Years:	1295 1296 1297 – 1298 – 1299 1300 1301

1298 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1298 in poetry

1298 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1298 MCCXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2051
Armenian calendar	747 Ô¹ÕŽ Õ‰Ô½Ô·
Assyrian calendar	6048
Bengali calendar	705
Berber calendar	2248
English Regnal year	26 Edw. 1 â€“ 27 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1842
Burmese calendar	660
Byzantine calendar	6806–6807
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 3994 or 3934     â€” to â€” 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 3995 or 3935
Coptic calendar	1014–1015
Discordian calendar	2464
Ethiopian calendar	1290–1291
Hebrew calendar	5058–5059
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1354–1355
- Shaka Samvat	1220–1221
- Kali Yuga	4399–4400
Holocene calendar	11298
Igbo calendar	298–299
Iranian calendar	676–677
Islamic calendar	697–698
Japanese calendar	Einin 6 (永仁６年)
Julian calendar	1298 MCCXCVIII
Korean calendar	3631
Minguo calendar	614 before ROC 民前614年
Thai solar calendar	1840–1841

Year 1298 (MCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Asia

• July – Emperor Go-Fushimi succeeds Emperor Fushimi on the throne of Japan.
• John Tarchaneiotes is appointed governor of the southern portions of Byzantine Anatolia.

Europe

• April 20 – Beginning of the Rintfleisch-Pogrom, the Jews of Röttingen are burned en masse, other Jewish communities are destroyed later in the year
• June 1 – Residents of Riga and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida
• July 2 – Battle of Göllheim:^[1] Albert I of Habsburg defeats and kills Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
• July 22 – Battle of Falkirk: King Edward I of England defeats a Scottish army led by William Wallace.^[1] A majority of Edward's infantry are Welsh.^[2]
• August 1 – Foundation of the "ideal city" of Marciac, Gascogne, France through the king Philippe IV le Bel and Guichard de Marzé.^[3]
• September 9 – Battle of Curzola: the Genoese fleet defeats the Venetians. Marco Polo is one of the prisoners taken, and while in prison in Genoa, he begins dictating his Travels to Rustichello da Pisa.
• After a year's siege, the revolting commune of Palestrina near Rome surrenders and is razed to the ground and salted by order of Pope Boniface VIII in an act of debellatio.

By topic

Markets

• The foreign creditors of the Sienese Gran Tavola bank start demanding their deposits back thus accelerating the liquidity crisis faced by the firm.^[4]

Religion

• Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, and Pope Gregory I are named the first Doctors of the Church. They are known collectively as the Great Doctors of the Western Church.

Technology

• The Chinese governmental minister Wang Zhen (official) invents wooden movable type printing (Bi Sheng invented ceramic movable type in the 11th century).

Births

• December 12 – Albert II of Austria (d. 1358)
• date unknown
  • Charles, Duke of Calabria (d. 1328)
  • Elisabeth of Carinthia, queen consort of Sicily (d. after 1347)
  • Ibn Juzayy, Islamic scholar (d. 1340)
  • Sir Andrew Murray, Scottish soldier (d. 1338)
• probable – William Irvine, Scottish soldier

Deaths

• April 17 – Árni Þorláksson, Icelandic bishop (b. 1237)
• June 11 – Jolenta of Poland, Hungarian princess (b. 1235)
• July 2 – King Adolf of Germany (b. c. 1255)
• July 13 – Jacobus de Voragine, Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa
• July 22 – Sir John de Graham, Scottish soldier at the Battle of Falkirk
• July 23 – King Thoros III of Armenia (b. c. 1271)
• August 29 – Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar (b. 1269)
• September 11 – Philip of Artois, French soldier (b. 1269)
• September 29 – Guido I da Montefeltro, Italian military strategist (b. 1223)
• November 19 – Saint Mechtilde, Saxon saint (b. c. 1240)
• date unknown
  • Archibald, Scottish prelate
  • Auhaduddin Kermani, Sufi poet
  • Gerard of Lunel, French saint
  • William Houghton, Archbishop of Dublin
  • John of Procida, Italian physician and diplomat (b. 1210)
  • Mordecai ben Hillel, German rabbi (b. c. 1250)
  • Nino Visconti, ruler of Gallula
  • Emperor Smilets of Bulgaria (b. 1292)
• probable
  • William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas, Scottish warlord
  • Thomas Learmonth, Scottish minstrel

References

1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
2. Bartlett, W. B. The Taming of the Dragon.
3. Jacques, Barnouin (2014). The fabulous Destiny of Marciac. Albi, France: Un autre Reg'Art. ISBN 979-10-90894-67-9.
4. Catoni, Giuliano. "BONSIGNORI". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Retrieved 20 December 2011.