- 1294
Year 1294 (MCCXCIV) was a
common year starting on Friday "Calendar - Portugal - 1294" (Julian calendar), Time and Date AS / Steffen Thorsen, 2008, webpage: [http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1294&country=15 TimeandDate-calendar-1294-Portugal] .] (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1294
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July 5 -Pope Celestine V succeedsNicholas IV as the 192nd pope.
*Autumn - In response to the actions of new royal administrators in north and west Wales,Madog ap Llywelyn leads a revolt against his English overlords.
*December 24 -Pope Boniface VIII succeedsPope Celestine V as the 193rd pope after Celestine V abdicates the papacy on December 13, only 5 months after reluctantly accepting his surprise election on July 5, wishing to return to his life as an ascetic hermit.Undated
* The death of
Kublai Khan allows the 4 khanates of the Mongol Empire (theChagatai Khanate , theGolden Horde , theIlkhanate , and theYuan Dynasty ofChina ) to formally become independent; they each had already been moving toward independence during Kublai's reign.
*John Balliol , King of Scotland, decides to refuse KingEdward I of England 's demands for support in a planned invasion of France, and instead informs the French of Edward's plans and negotiates theAuld Alliance with France andNorway . These actions play a part in precipitating theScottish Wars of Independence , which begin in 1296.
* TheStrata Florida Abbey is rebuilt; it had been destroyed some years earlier in KingEdward I of England 's conquest of Wales.
* ArchitectArnolfo di Cambio designs the Florentine cathedralSanta Maria del Fiore , better known simply as "Il Duomo". He also begins work on theBasilica di Santa Croce di Firenze , also in Florence.
* England and Portugal enter into the first iteration of theAnglo-Portuguese Alliance , the oldest alliance in the world still in force.
*Edward I of England andPhilip the Fair of France declare war on each other. To finance this war, both kings lay taxes on the clergy.Pope Boniface VIII insists that kings gain papal consent of taxation of the clergy and forbids churchmen to pay taxes.Births
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Charles IV of France (d.1328 )
*Kusunoki Masashige , Japanese samurai (d.1336 ):"Also see ".Deaths
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February 18 -Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (b.1215 )
*May 3 -John I, Duke of Brabant
*December 25 -Mściwój II of Pomerania
*Roger Bacon , English philosopher and scientist
* EmperorYagbe'u Seyon of Ethiopia
*John I of Brienne, Count of Eu
*Brunetto Latini , Florentine philosopher (b. c.1220 )
*Dmitri of Pereslavl , Grand Duke of Vladimir-Suzdal:"Also see ".Notes
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