- 1300
Year 1300 was a
leap year starting on Friday "Calendar - Portugal - 1300" (Julian calendar), Time and Date AS / Steffen Thorsen, 2008, webpage: [http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1300&country=15 TimeandDate-calendar-1300-Portugal] .] (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1300
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February 22 - The Jubilee ofPope Boniface VIII is celebrated. It is at this celebration thatGiovanni Villani decides to write hisuniversal history of Florence, the "Cronica ".
*March 10 - Wardrobe accounts of KingEdward I of England (aka Edward Longshanks) include a reference to a game called "creag " being played at the town ofNewenden inKent . It is generally agreed that "creag " was an early form ofcricket (see alsoHistory of cricket to 1696 ).
*March 25 - Dante descends to the "Inferno " in "The Divine Comedy ".
*April 12 -Remus Halifax is born.
*June 15 - The city ofBilbao is founded.Undated
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Money fromFlorence ,Italy becomes the first international currency.
*Philip IV of France begins his attempt to annexFlanders .
*Wenceslas II of Bohemia becomes King ofPoland .
* Acensus in ImperialChina finds that it has roughly 60 million inhabitants (having lost 20 million after nearly a century of Mongolian conquests).
* TheTuareg establish a state centered onAgadez .
*Amsterdam is officially declared a city.*
Jacob ben Machir is appointed dean of the medical school atMontpellier .Births
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March 21 -Henry Suso , German mystic (d.1366 )
*June 1 -Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk , son ofEdward I of England (d.1338 )
*September 27 -Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d.1327 )
*"date unknown"
**John III, Duke of Brabant (d.1355 )
**Jean Buridan , French philosopher and religious skeptic (d.1358 )
**Khutughtu Khan, Emperor Mingzong of Yuan , ruler of the Mongol Empire (d.1329 )
**Chihab Addine Abul-Abbas Ahmad ben Fadhl Al-Umari, Arab historian (d.1384 )
**Robert, Count of Burgundy (d.1315 )
*"probable"
**Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro , Augustinian monk (d.1342 )
**Geoffroi de Charny , French knight and chivalric writer (d.1356 )
**Richard FitzRalph , Archbishop of Armagh (d.1360 )
**Taddeo Gaddi , Italian painter and architect (d.1366 )
**John of Winterthur , Swiss historian
**Laurence Minot , English poet (d.1352 ):"Also see alphabetical ".Deaths
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May 2 -Blanche of Artois , regent of Navarre
*July 18 -Gerard Segarelli , founder of the Apostolic Brethren (burned at stake)
*August 29 -Guido Cavalcanti , Italian poet (b.1250 )
*?September -Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (b.1249 )
*December -Jean de Montfort-Castres , Count of Squillace
*"date unknown"
**Tsar Chaka , Mongol ruler of Bulgaria
**Tran Hung Dao , Vietnamese general
**Jacob van Maerlant , Flemish poet
**Richard Middleton, English theologian and philosopher
**William of Nangis , French chronicler
**Munio de Zamora , General of the Dominican Order:"Also see alphabetical ".Notes
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