1304

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1270s  1280s  1290s  – 1300s –  1310s  1320s  1330s
Years:	1301 1302 1303 – 1304 – 1305 1306 1307

1304 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1304 in poetry

1304 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1304 MCCCIV
Ab urbe condita	2057
Armenian calendar	753 ԹՎ ՉԾԳ
Assyrian calendar	6054
Bengali calendar	711
Berber calendar	2254
English Regnal year	32 Edw. 1 – 33 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1848
Burmese calendar	666
Byzantine calendar	6812–6813
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4000 or 3940     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4001 or 3941
Coptic calendar	1020–1021
Discordian calendar	2470
Ethiopian calendar	1296–1297
Hebrew calendar	5064–5065
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1360–1361
- Shaka Samvat	1226–1227
- Kali Yuga	4405–4406
Holocene calendar	11304
Igbo calendar	304–305
Iranian calendar	682–683
Islamic calendar	703–704
Japanese calendar	Kagen 2 (嘉元２年)
Julian calendar	1304 MCCCIV
Korean calendar	3637
Minguo calendar	608 before ROC 民前608年
Thai solar calendar	1846–1847

Year 1304 (MCCCIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• February – John "Red" Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, negotiates a peace with the Kingdom of England in the Wars of Scottish Independence at Strathord near Perth.
• July 20 – Fall of Stirling Castle: Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
• August 17 – The Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle is fought to a draw between the French army and the Flemish militias.
• October 24 – Sasa Bey of the Beylik of Menteşe conquers Ephesus from the Eastern Roman Empire, massacring and deporting its native population^[1]

Date unknown

• James II of Aragon reconquers Villena, Spain.
• Holland and Zeeland are occupied by John II, Duke of Brabant and Guy of Dampierre. John II, Count of Hainaut recovers the counties.
• Ala-ud-din Khilji, Sultan of Delhi, conquers Gujarat.
• The peace treaty signed between the khanates of the Mongol Empire. The end of the civil war of the Mongols.
• The Genoese Benedetto I Zaccaria takes control of Chios island from the Byzantine Empire, establishing an autonomous lordship there.^[2][3]
• Construction of Ypres Cloth Hall is completed.

Births

• February 24 – Ibn Battuta, Moroccan jurist
• July 20 – Petrarch, Italian poet (d. 1374)
• William de Clinton, 1st Earl of Huntingdon
• Louis I of Flanders (d. 1346)
• Jayaatu Khan, emperor of the Yuan Dynasty (d. 1332)
• Günther von Schwarzburg, German king (d. 1349)

Deaths

• March 7 or March 8 – Bartolomeo I della Scala
• May 11 – Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271)
• May 23 – Jehan de Lescurel, poet and composer
• July 7 – Pope Benedict XI (b. 1240)
• July 17 – Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Wigmore
• August 17 – Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
• August 22 – John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247)
• September 27 – John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, English soldier

References

1. Foss, Clive (1979). Ephesus After Antiquity: A Late Antique, Byzantine, and Turkish City. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 144. ISBN 0521220866.
2. Lock, Peter (2013). The Routledge Companion to the Crusades. Routledge. p. 124. ISBN 9781135131371.
3. Miller, William (1921). "The Zaccaria of Phocaea and Chios (1275-1329)". Essays on the Latin Orient. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 283–298.