Year 1298

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Year 1298 (MCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Asia

  • August 28 – Emperor Go-Fushimi succeeds Emperor Fushimi on the throne of Japan.
  • John Tarchaneiotes is appointed governor of the southern portions of Byzantine Anatolia.

Europe

  • April 20 – Rintfleisch-Pogrom: The Jews of Röttingen are burned en masse; other Jewish communities are destroyed later in the year.
  • June 1 – Battle of Turaida: Residents of Riga and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the Livonian Order.
  • July 2 – Battle of Göllheim: Albert I of Habsburg defeats and kills Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
  • July 22 – Edward I of England defeats a Scottish army led by William Wallace in the Battle of Falkirk.
  • August 1 – The “ideal city” of Marciac, Gascogne, France is founded by King Philip IV of France and Guichard de Marzé.
  • 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 Rustichello da Pisa.
  • After a year’s siege, the revolting commune of Palestrina near Rome surrenders, and is razed to the ground and salted by order of Pope Boniface VIII, in an act of debellatio.

By topic

Markets

  • The foreign creditors of the Sienese Gran Tavola Bank start demanding their deposits back, thus accelerating the liquidity crisis faced by the firm.

Religion

  • 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.

Technology

  • The Chinese governmental minister Wang Zhen invents a wooden movable type printing (Bi Sheng invented ceramic movable type in the 11th Century).

Births

  • December 12 – Albert II, Duke of Austria (d. 1358)
  • date unknown
    • Charles, Duke of Calabria, a grandson of Sicilian King Charles II of Naples (d. 1328)
    • Elisabeth of Carinthia, queen consort of Sicily (d. after 1347)
    • Abu’l-Qasim Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi, Andalusian Islamic scholar (d. 1340)
    • Sir Andrew Murray, Scottish soldier (d. 1338)
  • probable – William Irvine, Scottish soldier

Deaths

  • January 2 – Lodomer, Hungarian archbishop
  • April 17 – Árni Þorláksson, Icelandic bishop (b. 1237)
  • June 11 – Yolanda of Poland, Hungarian princess (b. 1235)
  • July 2 – King Adolf of Germany (b. c. 1255)
  • July 13 or July 16 – Jacobus de Voragine, Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa
  • July 22 – Sir John de Graham, Scottish soldier at the Battle of Falkirk
  • July 23 – King Thoros III, King of Armenia (b. c. 1271)
  • 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 – Mechtilde, Saxon saint (b. c. 1240)
  • December 31 – Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1249)
  • date unknown
    • Archibald, Scottish prelate
    • Auhaduddin Kermani, Persian Sufi poet
    • Gerard of Lunel, French saint
    • William Houghton, Archbishop of Dublin
    • John of Procida, Italian physician and diplomat (b. 1210)
    • Mordecai ben Hillel, German rabbi (b. c. 1250)
    • Ram Khamhaeng, Thai king of Sukhothai (b. c. 1237)
    • Nino Visconti, ruler of Gallula
    • Emperor Smilets of Bulgaria
  • probable
    • William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas, Scottish warlord
    • Thomas Learmonth, Scottish minstrel