1299

Year 1299 (MCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1270s 1280s 1290s 1300s 1310s
Years:	1296 1297 1298 1299 1300 1301 1302

1299 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1299 MCCXCIX
Ab urbe condita	2052
Armenian calendar	748 ԹՎ ՉԽԸ
Assyrian calendar	6049
Balinese saka calendar	1220–1221
Bengali calendar	706
Berber calendar	2249
English Regnal year	27 Edw. 1 – 28 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1843
Burmese calendar	661
Byzantine calendar	6807–6808
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 3995 or 3935     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3996 or 3936
Coptic calendar	1015–1016
Discordian calendar	2465
Ethiopian calendar	1291–1292
Hebrew calendar	5059–5060
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1355–1356
- Shaka Samvat	1220–1221
- Kali Yuga	4399–4400
Holocene calendar	11299
Igbo calendar	299–300
Iranian calendar	677–678
Islamic calendar	698–699
Japanese calendar	Einin 7 / Shōan 1 (正安元年)
Javanese calendar	1210–1211
Julian calendar	1299 MCCXCIX
Korean calendar	3632
Minguo calendar	613 before ROC 民前613年
Nanakshahi calendar	−169
Thai solar calendar	1841–1842
Tibetan calendar	阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 1425 or 1044 or 272     — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 1426 or 1045 or 273

Events

Asia

• February 24 – Alauddin Khalji, sultan of Delhi, sends his generals Ulugh Khan and Nusrat Khan to conquer Gujarat.
• May 10 – Kyawswa of Pagan and Crown Prince Theingapati are executed at Myinsaing, by the three brothers of the Myinsaing Kingdom (nominally Kyawswa's viceroys), as traitors for submitting to the Mongol Empire.
• July 27 – Osman I declares his Anatolian beylik (principality) to be independent of the Seljuq Dynasty Sultanate of Rum, originating the Ottoman Empire, with Söğüt as the original capital, which will last until the 1920s.
• A Mongol khan launches a campaign into India with 200,000 men, but Alauddin Khalji, sultan of Delhi, defeats them.
• The Kingdom of Singapura is founded by Sang Nila Utama, a Srivijaya prince.

Europe

• April – The Scots take Stirling Castle from the English, after a siege.
• April 1 – Kings Towne on the River Hull (Kingston upon Hull) is granted city status, by Royal Charter of King Edward I of England.
• June 27 – Pope Boniface VIII issues the papal bull Scimus, fili condemning King Edward I of England invasion and occupation of Scotland.[1]
• July 31 – Pisa and Genoa agree to a thirty-year truce. Part of the treaty includes the end of the Pisan support to Genoa's enemies, in particular Sinucello della Rocca in Corsica.[2]
• November 1 – Håkon V Magnusson becomes king of Norway.
• December 1 – Battle of Falconaria: Frederick II of Sicily defeats Philip I of Taranto.
• The House of Holland becomes extinct. The County of Holland becomes part of a personal union with the County of Hainaut.
• Early evidence is uncovered of the king of England borrowing from the Italian merchants. Edward I obtains a loan of 2,000 pollard marks, from agents of the Frescobaldi Firm in London.[3]

Markets

• The city of Florence bans the use of Arabic numerals for commerce, allowing only Roman numerals.

Births

• date unknown
  • Alfonso IV of Aragon (d. 1366)
  • Pierre Bertrand de Colombier, French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1361)
  • Dmitri of Tver, Grand Prince of Vladimir (d. 1326)
  • Maria of Aragon, princess of Aragon (d. 1316)
• probable
  • Ranulf Higdon, English chronicler (d. c. 1363)
  • Malatesta II Malatesta, Italian condottiero (d. 1364)
  • Nicholas of Autrecourt, French philosopher and theologian (d. 1369)

Deaths

• May 10
  • Kyawswa of Pagan, deposed ruler of the Pagan Kingdom (born 1260)
  • Theingapati, heir to the Pagan Kingdom
• May 17 – Daumantas of Pskov, Lithuanian prince (b. c. 1240)
• July 15 – King Eric II of Norway (b. c. 1268)
• August 1 – Conrad de Lichtenberg, Bishop of Strasbourg (b. 1240)
• November 10 – John I, Count of Holland (b. 1284)
• November 13 – Oliver Sutton, Bishop of Lincoln
• December 9 – Bohemond I, Archbishop of Trier
• December 31 – Margaret, Countess of Anjou (b. 1273)
• date unknown
  • John Giffard, English baron (b. 1232)
  • Gottfried Hagen, German chronicler (b. 1230)
  • Nogai Khan, ruler of the Golden Horde
  • Zafar Khan, Indian military leader
  • Yakut al-Mustasim, Turkish secretary of the last Abbasid caliph

References

1. Brown, Michael (2004). The Wars of Scotland 1214–1371. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 192, 280. ISBN 0748612378.
2. Cancelleri, J.-A. "Sinucello della Rocca". Dizionario biografico. Retrieved December 20, 2011.
3. Ferris, Eleanor (1902). "The Financial Relations of the Knights Templars to the English Crown". American Historical Review. 8 (1).