1300

Year 1300 (MCCC) was a century leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1300th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 300th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 13th century, and the 1st year of the 1300s decade. The year 1300 was not a leap year in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1280s 1290s 1300s 1310s 1320s
Years:	1297 1298 1299 1300 1301 1302 1303

1300 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1300 MCCC
Ab urbe condita	2053
Armenian calendar	749 ԹՎ ՉԽԹ
Assyrian calendar	6050
Balinese saka calendar	1221–1222
Bengali calendar	707
Berber calendar	2250
English Regnal year	28 Edw. 1 – 29 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1844
Burmese calendar	662
Byzantine calendar	6808–6809
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3996 or 3936     — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3997 or 3937
Coptic calendar	1016–1017
Discordian calendar	2466
Ethiopian calendar	1292–1293
Hebrew calendar	5060–5061
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1356–1357
- Shaka Samvat	1221–1222
- Kali Yuga	4400–4401
Holocene calendar	11300
Igbo calendar	300–301
Iranian calendar	678–679
Islamic calendar	699–700
Japanese calendar	Shōan 2 (正安２年)
Javanese calendar	1211–1212
Julian calendar	1300 MCCC
Korean calendar	3633
Minguo calendar	612 before ROC 民前612年
Nanakshahi calendar	−168
Thai solar calendar	1842–1843
Tibetan calendar	阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 1426 or 1045 or 273     — to — 阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 1427 or 1046 or 274

Charon coming to ferry souls to Hell, in Canto 10 of The Divine Comedy. The engraving is by Doré.

Events

January–December

• 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.
• June 15 – The city of Bilbao receives a royal foundation charter.
• June 17 – Turku Cathedral is consecrated.

Date unknown

• 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.
• 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, France.
• Aztec culture starts in Mesoamerica (approximate date).
• The Dulcinian sect begins when Gherardo Segarelli, founder of the Apostolic Brethren, is burned at the stake in Parma, during a brutal repression of the Apostolics.

Births

• June 1 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (d. 1338)[1]
• September 27 – Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1327)[2]
• date unknown
• John III, Duke of Brabant (d. 1355)[3]
• Khutughtu Khan, Emperor Mingzong of Yuan, emperor of the Yuan Dynasty (d. 1329)
• Jeanne de Clisson, French noblewoman and privateer (d. 1359)[4]
• Chihab Addine Abul-Abbas Ahmad ben Fadhl Al-Umari, Arab historian (d. 1384)
• probable
• Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, Italian 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)
• Ibn Kathir, Syrian Islamic scholar (d. 1373)
• Laurence Minot, English poet (d. 1352)
• John of Winterthur, Swiss historian

Deaths

• February 19 – Munio of Zamora, Spanish General of the Dominican Order
• July 18 – Gerard Segarelli, Italian founder of the Apostolic Brethren (burned at stake)
• September – Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (approximate date; b. 1249)
• December – Jean de Montfort-Castres, Count of Squillace
• date unknown
• Guido Cavalcanti, Italian poet (b. 1250)
• Tsar Chaka, Mongol ruler of Bulgaria
• Berengaria of Castile, Lady of Guadalajara, Spanish ruler (b. 1253)
• Tran Hung Dao, Vietnamese general
• Jacob van Maerlant, Flemish poet
• Jeanne de Montfort de Chambéon, Swiss ruler (b. 1250)
• William of Nangis, French chronicler

References

1. Sharpe, Thomasin Elizabeth (1875). A royal descent [of the family of Sharpe]; with other pedigrees and memorials [With] Additions and corrections. pp. 2–.
2. Steven Mueller (2007). The Wittelsbach Dynasty. Waldmann Press. ISBN 978-0-9702576-3-5.
3. Anne Rudloff Stanton (2001). The Queen Mary Psalter: A Study of Affect and Audience. American Philosophical Society. pp. 217–. ISBN 978-0-87169-916-9.
4. Axelrod, Alan (2013). Mercenaries: A Guide to Private Armies and Private Military Companies. CQ Press. p. 174. ISBN 9781483364674.

Further reading

• Alexandra Gajewski & Zoë Opacic (ed.), The Year 1300 and the Creation of a New European Architecture (Architectura Medii Aevi, 1), Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007. ISBN 978-2-503-52286-9