1298

Year 1298 was a common year starting on Wednesday "Calendar - Portugal - 1298" (Julian calendar), Time and Date AS / Steffen Thorsen, 2008, webpage: [http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1298&country=15 TimeandDate-calendar-1298-Portugal] .] (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1298

*July - Emperor Go-Fushimi succeeds Emperor Fushimi on the throne of Japan.
* July 2 - Battle of Göllheim: 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.
* 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 a local writer.

Undated

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

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)
* July 2 - King Adolf of Germany (b. c. 1255)
*July 22 - Sir John de Graham, Scottish soldier at the Battle of Falkirk
*July 23 - King Thoros III of Armenia (b. c. 1271)
* July 13 - Jacobus de Voragine, Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa
* July 22 - John de Graham, Scottish soldier (in battle)
* 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)
**Jolenta of Poland, Hungarian princess (b. 1235)
**Mordecai ben Hillel, German rabbi (b. c. 1250)
**Nino Visconti, ruler of Gallula
**Emperor Smilets of Bulgaria (b. 1292)
*"probable"
**William Douglas the Hardy, Scottish warlord
**Thomas Learmonth, Scottish minstrel

Notes

*Michelle of England, daughter of The great Parmenter's mysteriously disappeared. Never seen again.