1299

Year 1299 was a common year starting on Thursday "Calendar - Portugal - 1299" (Julian calendar), Time and Date AS / Steffen Thorsen, 2008, webpage: [http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1299&country=15 TimeandDate-calendar-1299-Portugal] .] (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1299

* April - Scots take Stirling Castle from the English after a siege.
* April 1 - Kings Towne on the River Hull(Kingston upon Hull) is granted city status by Royal Charter of King Edward I of England.
* December 1 - Battle of Falconaria: Frederick II of Sicily defeats Philip I of Taranto.

Undated

* Osman I declares the independence of the Ottoman Principality.
* The House of Holland becomes extinct. The County of Holland becomes part of a personal union with the County of Hainaut.
* King Håkon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo, and builds Akershus Fortress there. Norway is ruled from this fortress the next 500 years.
* A serious fire occurs at Westminster Palace.
* A Mongol khan launches a campaign into India with 200,000 men, but the sultan of Delhi defeats them.

Births

*"date unknown"
**Alfonso IV of Aragon (d. 1366)
**Pierre Bertrand de Colombier, French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1361)
**Dmitri of Tver, Grand Prince of Vladimir (d. 1326)
**Maria of Aragon, princess of Aragon (d. 1316)
*"probable"
**Ranulf Higdon, English chronicler (d. c. 1363)
**Malatesta II Malatesta, Italian condottiero (d. 1364):"Also see ".

Deaths

*May 17 - Daumantas of Pskov, Lithuanian prince (b. c. 1240)
*July 15 - King Eric II of Norway (b. c. 1268)
*November 10 - John I, Count of Holland (b. 1284)
*November 13 - Oliver Sutton, Bishop of Lincoln
*December 9 - Bohemond I, Archbishop of Trier
*"date unknown"
**John Giffard, English baron (b. 1232)
**Gottfried Hagen, German chronicler (b. 1230)
**Conrad de Lichtenberg, Bishop of Strasbourg (b. 1240)
**Nogai Khan, ruler of the Golden Horde
**Zafar Khan, Indian military leader
*"probable" - Nicholas of Autrecourt, French philosopher and theologian (d. c. 1369):"Also see ".

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