1298 Totally Explained

Everything about 1298 totally explained

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

Events of 1298

July - Emperor Go-Fushimi succeeds Emperor Fushimi on the throne of Japan.
July 2 - Battle of Göllheim: Albert I of Habsburg defeats and kills Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
July 22 - Battle of Falkirk: King Edward I of England defeats a Scottish army led by William Wallace.
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 a local writer.

Undated

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

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.

Births

December 12 - Albert II of Austria (d. 1358)

date unknown

Charles, Duke of Calabria (d. 1328)
Elisabeth of Carinthia, queen consort of Sicily (d. after 1347)
Ibn Juzayy, Islamic scholar (d. 1340)
Sir Andrew Murray, Scottish soldier (d. 1338)

probable - William Irvine, Scottish soldier

Deaths

April 17 - Árni Þorláksson, Icelandic bishop (b. 1237)

July 2 - King Adolf of Germany (b. c. 1255)

July 22 - Sir John de Graham, Scottish soldier at the Battle of Falkirk

July 23 - King Thoros III of Armenia (b. c. 1271)

July 13 - Jacobus de Voragine, Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa

July 22 - John de Graham, Scottish soldier (in battle)

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 - Saint Mechtilde, Saxon saint (b. c. 1240)

date unknown

Archibald, Scottish prelate
Auhaduddin Kermani, Sufi poet
Gerard of Lunel, French saint
William Houghton, Archbishop of Dublin
John of Procida, Italian physician and diplomat (b. 1210)
Jolenta of Poland, Hungarian princess (b. 1235)
Mordecai ben Hillel, German rabbi (b. c. 1250)
Nino Visconti, ruler of Gallula
Emperor Smilets of Bulgaria (b. 1292)

probable

William Douglas the Hardy, Scottish warlord
Thomas Learmonth, Scottish minstrel

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