1296

Year 1296 (MCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday "Calendar - Portugal - 1296" (Julian calendar), Time and Date AS / Steffen Thorsen, 2008, webpage: [http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1296&country=15 TimeandDate-calendar-1296-Portugal] .] (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1296

* March 30 - Edward I storms Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking the then Scottish border town with much bloodshed. He slaughters most residents, including those who flee to the churches.
* April 27 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
* October 3 - Alauddin Khilji proclaims himself ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, as a member of the Khilji dynasty.

Undated

* The Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan spends a year at the court of the Khmer King Indravarman III at Angkor and pens a journal setting forth his observations.
* King Mangrai the Great of Ngoen Yang moved his capital south by founding Chiang Mai and established Mangrai Dynasty that ruling Lanna Kingdom from 1296 to 1578.
* Jalal-Ud-Din-Feroz Khilji dies and Ala-Ud-Din-Khilji,one of the greatest ruler of Hindustan(India) comes to the throne and rules till 1316.His empire is compared to the mauryan empire at its greatest extent.

Births

* August 10 - "Blind" King John I of Bohemia (d. 1346)
*December - Marjorie Bruce, only daughter of Robert I of Scotland (d. 1316)
*"date unknown"
**Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (d. 1359)
**Roland of Sicily, Italian nobleman (d. 1361)
*"probable"
**Algirdas, ruler of Lithuania (d. 1377)
**Blanche of Burgundy, queen consort of France (d. 1326)
**Shi Naian, Chinese author (d. 1370)
**Tamagusuku, ruler of Chuzan

Deaths

* February 8 - King Przemysł II of Poland (b. 1257)
* March 11 - John le Romeyn, Archbishop of York
*May - William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke
* May 19 - Pope Celestine V (b. 1215)
* June 5 - Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, son of Henry III of England (born 1245)
* June 27 - Floris V, Count of Holland (b. 1254)
* August 8 - Hugh of Brienne, French crusader
* October 9 - Louis III, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1269)
* November 1 - Guillaume Durand, French canonist and writer
*December - Isabella of Mar, wife of Robert I of Scotland
*?December - Adam de Darlington, Bishop of Caithness
*"date unknown"
**Philippe de Rémi (b. c. 1247)
**Johannes Campanus, Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1220)
**Dnyaneshwar, Hindu saint and poet (b. 1275)
**Jalal ud din Firuz Khilji, founder of the Khilji dynasty in India
**Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
**Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford

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