1296

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1260s  1270s  1280s  – 1290s –  1300s  1310s  1320s
Years:	1293 1294 1295 – 1296 – 1297 1298 1299

1296 in topic:

Subjects:               Architecture – Art

Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1296 (MCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday ^[1] (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1296 1.1 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Notes

Events of 1296

• March 30 – Edward I storms Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking the then Scottish border town with much bloodshed. He slaughters most residents, including those who flee to the churches.
• April 27 – Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
• October 3 – Alauddin Khilji proclaims himself ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, as a member of the Khilji dynasty.

Undated

• The Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan spends a year at the court of the Khmer King Indravarman III at Angkor and pens a journal setting forth his observations.
• King Mangrai the Great of Ngoen Yang moved his capital south by founding Chiang Mai and established Mangrai Dynasty that ruling Lanna Kingdom from 1296 to 1578.
• Jalal-Ud-Din-Feroz Khilji dies and Ala-Ud-Din-Khilji,one of the greatest ruler of Hindustan(India) comes to the throne and rules till 1316.His empire is compared to the mauryan empire at its greatest extent.

1296 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1296 MCCXCVI
Ab urbe condita	2049
Armenian calendar	745 ԹՎ ՉԽԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-548 – -547
Bengali calendar	703
Berber calendar	2246
Buddhist calendar	1840
Burmese calendar	658
Byzantine calendar	6804 – 6805
Chinese calendar	乙未年十一月廿五日 (3932/3992-11-25) — to — 丙申年十二月初六日 (3933/3993-12-6)
Coptic calendar	1012 – 1013
Ethiopian calendar	1288 – 1289
Hebrew calendar	5056 – 5057
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1352 – 1353
- Shaka Samvat	1218 – 1219
- Kali Yuga	4397 – 4398
Holocene calendar	11296
Iranian calendar	674 – 675
Islamic calendar	695 – 696
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3629
Thai solar calendar	1839

Births

• August 10 – "Blind" King John I of Bohemia (d. 1346)
• December – Marjorie Bruce, only daughter of Robert I of Scotland (d. 1316)
• date unknown
  • Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (d. 1359)
  • Roland of Sicily, Italian nobleman (d. 1361)
• probable
  • Algirdas, ruler of Lithuania (d. 1377)
  • Blanche of Burgundy, queen consort of France (d. 1326)
  • Shi Naian, Chinese author (d. 1370)
  • Tamagusuku, ruler of Chuzan

Deaths

• February 8 – King Przemysł II of Poland (b. 1257)
• March 11 – John le Romeyn, Archbishop of York
• May – William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke
• May 19 – Pope Celestine V (b. 1215)
• June 5 – Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, son of Henry III of England (born 1245)
• June 27 – Floris V, Count of Holland (b. 1254)
• August 8 – Hugh of Brienne, French crusader
• October 9 – Louis III, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1269)
• November 1 – Guillaume Durand, French canonist and writer
• December – Isabella of Mar, wife of Robert I of Scotland
• ?December – Adam de Darlington, Bishop of Caithness
• date unknown
  • Philippe de Rémi (b. c. 1247)
  • Johannes Campanus, Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1220)
  • Dnyaneshwar, Hindu saint and poet (b. 1275)
  • Jalal ud din Firuz Khilji, founder of the Khilji dynasty in India
  • Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
  • Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford

Notes

1. ↑ "Calendar – Portugal – 1296" (Julian calendar), Time and Date AS / Steffen Thorsen, 2008, webpage: TimeandDate-calendar-1296-Portugal.