1300
Events of 1300
February 22 The Jubilee of Pope Boniface VIII is celebrated. It is at this celebration that Giovanni Villani decides to write his universal history of Florence, the Cronica.
March 10 Wardrobe accounts of King Edward I of England (aka Edward Longshanks) include a reference to a game called creag being played at the town of Newenden in Kent. It is generally agreed that creag was an early form of cricket (see also History of cricket to 1696).
Charon coming to ferry souls to Hell, in Canto 10 of The Divine Comedy. The engraving is by Dor.
March 25, Good friday The date of Dante’s journey as the protagonist in his own epic poem, The Divine Comedy. Beginning with the Inferno, he made many cultural references to his time.
June 15 The city of Bilbao is founded.
Undated
Money from Florence, Italy becomes the first international currency.
Philip IV of France begins his attempt to annex Flanders.
Wenceslas II of Bohemia becomes King of Poland.
A census in Imperial China finds that it has roughly 60 million inhabitants (having lost 20 million after nearly a century of Mongolian conquests).
The Tuareg establish a state centered on Agadez.
Amsterdam is officially declared a city.
Jacob ben Machir is appointed dean of the medical school at Montpellier.
1300 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar
1300
MCCC
Ab urbe condita
2053
Armenian calendar
749
Bah’ calendar
-544 -543
Bengali calendar
707
Berber calendar
2250
Buddhist calendar
1844
Burmese calendar
662
Byzantine calendar
6808 6809
Chinese calendar
(3936/3996-12-9)
to
(3937/3997-11-20)
Coptic calendar
1016 1017
Ethiopian calendar
1292 1293
Hebrew calendar
5060 5061
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
1355 1356
- Shaka Samvat
1222 1223
- Kali Yuga
4401 4402
Holocene calendar
11300
Iranian calendar
678 679
Islamic calendar
699 700
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar
3633
Thai solar calendar
1843
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Births
March 21 Henry Suso, German mystic (d. 1366)
June 1 Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward 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, emperor of the Yuan Dynasty (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 Category:1300 births.
Deaths
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 Category:1300 deaths.
Notes
^ “Calendar Portugal 1300” (Julian calendar), Time and Date AS / Steffen Thorsen, 2008, webpage: TimeandDate-calendar-1300-Portugal.
See also: Alexandra GAJEWSKI & Zo OPACIC (ed.), The Year 1300 and the Creation of a New European Architecture (Architectura Medii Aevi, 1), Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. ISBN 978-2-503-52286-9
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