1304

Year 1304 (MCCCIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1280s 1290s 1300s 1310s 1320s
Years:	1301 1302 1303 1304 1305 1306 1307

1304 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1304 MCCCIV
Ab urbe condita	2057
Armenian calendar	753 ԹՎ ՉԾԳ
Assyrian calendar	6054
Balinese saka calendar	1225–1226
Bengali calendar	711
Berber calendar	2254
English Regnal year	32 Edw. 1 – 33 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1848
Burmese calendar	666
Byzantine calendar	6812–6813
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4000 or 3940     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4001 or 3941
Coptic calendar	1020–1021
Discordian calendar	2470
Ethiopian calendar	1296–1297
Hebrew calendar	5064–5065
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1360–1361
- Shaka Samvat	1225–1226
- Kali Yuga	4404–4405
Holocene calendar	11304
Igbo calendar	304–305
Iranian calendar	682–683
Islamic calendar	703–704
Japanese calendar	Kagen 2 (嘉元２年)
Javanese calendar	1215–1216
Julian calendar	1304 MCCCIV
Korean calendar	3637
Minguo calendar	608 before ROC 民前608年
Nanakshahi calendar	−164
Thai solar calendar	1846–1847
Tibetan calendar	阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 1430 or 1049 or 277     — to — 阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 1431 or 1050 or 278

Events

January–December

• February 9 – Wars of Scottish Independence: John "Red" Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, negotiates a peace with the Kingdom of England.[1]
• July 20 – Fall of Stirling Castle: Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
• August 17 – The Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle is fought to a draw, between the French army and the Flemish militias.
• October 24 – Sasa Bey of the Beylik of Menteşe conquers Ephesus from the Eastern Roman Empire, massacring and deporting its native population.[2]

Date unknown

• James II of Aragon reconquers Villena, Spain.
• Holland and Zeeland are occupied by John II, Duke of Brabant and Guy of Dampierre. John II, Count of Hainaut recovers the counties.
• Ala-ud-din Khalji, Sultan of Delhi, conquers Gujarat.
• A peace treaty, signed between the khanates of the Mongol Empire, ends the Mongol civil war.
• The Genoese Benedetto I Zaccaria takes control of Chios Island from the Byzantine Empire, establishing an autonomous lordship there.[3][4]
• The construction of Ypres Cloth Hall is completed.

Births

• February 25 – Ibn Battuta, Moroccan jurist and explorer
• July 20 – Petrarch, Italian poet (d. 1374)
• William de Clinton, 1st Earl of Huntingdon
• Marie of Luxembourg, Queen of France (d. 1324)
• Louis I of Flanders (d. 1346)
• Jayaatu Khan, emperor of the Yuan Dynasty (d. 1332)
• Günther von Schwarzburg, German king (d. 1349)

Deaths

Emperor Go-Fukakusa

• March 7 or 8 – Bartolomeo I della Scala, lord of Verona
• May 11 – Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271)
• May 23 – Jehan de Lescurel, French poet and composer
• July 7 – Pope Benedict XI (b. 1240)
• July 17 – Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Wigmore
• August 17 – Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
• August 22 – John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247)
• September – John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, English soldier
• December 23 – Matilda of Habsburg, duchess regent of Bavaria (b. 1253)

References

1. The Oxford companion to Scottish history. Oxford University Press. p. 334. ISBN 9780199693054.
2. Foss, Clive (1979). Ephesus After Antiquity: A Late Antique, Byzantine, and Turkish City. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 144. ISBN 0521220866.
3. Lock, Peter (2013). The Routledge Companion to the Crusades. Routledge. p. 124. ISBN 9781135131371.
4. Miller, William (1921). "The Zaccaria of Phocaea and Chios (1275-1329)". Essays on the Latin Orient. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 283–298.