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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 place

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.

Asia

• August 30 – Emperor Fushimi abdicates the throne after a 11-year reign. He is succeeded by his 10-year-old son Go-Fushimi as the 93rd emperor of Japan (until 1301).

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

• Wang Zhen, Chinese inventor and politician, invents a wooden movable type printing (Bi Sheng invented ceramic movable type in the 11th Century).

Births

• December 12 – Albert II (the Wise), German nobleman (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)

Deaths

• January 2 – Lodomer, Hungarian cleric, prelate and 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 1 – Mordechai ben Hillel, German rabbi, in Rintfleisch massacres (b. c. 1250)
• August 28 – William Houghton, English-born Archbishop of Dublin
• 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 and Franciscan (b. 1223)
• November 19 – Mechtilde, Saxon saint (b. c. 1240)
• December 9 – Archibald, Scottish prelate
• December 31 – Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1249)
• date unknown
  • Gerard of Lunel, French saint
  • John of Procida, Italian physician and diplomat (b. 1210)
  • Ram Khamhaeng, Thai king of Sukhothai (b. c. 1237)
  • Smilets of Bulgaria, Emperor (tsar)
  • Nino Visconti, ruler of Gallula
• probable
  • William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas, Scottish warlord
  • Thomas the Rhymer, Scottish minstrel

References

1. ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
2. Jacques, Barnouin (2014). The fabulous Destiny of Marciac. Albi, France: Un autre Reg'Art. ISBN 979-10-90894-67-9.
3. Catoni, Giuliano. "BONSIGNORI". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Retrieved December 20, 2011.

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