1298

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1260s  1270s  1280s  – 1290s –  1300s  1310s  1320s
Years:	1295 1296 1297 – 1298 – 1299 1300 1301

1298 in topic:

Subjects:               Architecture – Art

Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1298 (MCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday ^[1] (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1298 1.1 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Notes

Events of 1298

• April 20– beginning of the Rintfleisch-Pogrom, the Jews of Röttingen burned en masse, other Jewish communities destroyed later in the year
• 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.

1298 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1298 MCCXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2051
Armenian calendar	747 ԹՎ ՉԽԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-546 – -545
Bengali calendar	705
Berber calendar	2248
Buddhist calendar	1842
Burmese calendar	660
Byzantine calendar	6806 – 6807
Chinese calendar	丁酉年十二月十七日 (3934/3994-12-17) — to — 戊戌年十一月廿七日 (3935/3995-11-27)
Coptic calendar	1014 – 1015
Ethiopian calendar	1290 – 1291
Hebrew calendar	5058 – 5059
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1354 – 1355
- Shaka Samvat	1220 – 1221
- Kali Yuga	4399 – 4400
Holocene calendar	11298
Iranian calendar	676 – 677
Islamic calendar	697 – 698
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3631
Thai solar calendar	1841

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

Notes

1. ↑ "Calendar – Portugal – 1298" (Julian calendar), Time and Date AS / Steffen Thorsen, 2008, webpage: TimeandDate-calendar-1298-Portugal.