1300
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1270s 1280s 1290s – 1300s – 1310s 1320s 1330s |
| Years: | 1297 1298 1299 – 1300 – 1301 1302 1303 |
| 1300 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature – Music – Science |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1300 (MCCC) was a leap year starting on Friday [1] (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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Events of 1300
- 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.
- March 10 – Wardrobe accounts of King Edward I of England (aka Edward Longshanks) include a reference to a game called creag being played at the town of Newenden in Kent. It is generally agreed that creag was an early form of cricket (see also History of cricket to 1696).
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- March 25, Good friday– The date of Dante's journey as the protagonist in his own epic poem, The Divine Comedy. Beginning with the Inferno, he made many cultural references to his time.
- June 15 – The city of Bilbao is founded.
Undated
- 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 (having lost 20 million after nearly a century of Mongolian conquests).
- 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.
| Gregorian calendar | 1300 MCCC |
| Ab urbe condita | 2053 |
| Armenian calendar | 749 ԹՎ ՉԽԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -544 – -543 |
| Bengali calendar | 707 |
| Berber calendar | 2250 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1844 |
| Burmese calendar | 662 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6808 – 6809 |
| Chinese calendar | 己亥年十二月初九日 (3936/3996-12-9) — to —
庚子年十一月二十日(3937/3997-11-20) |
| Coptic calendar | 1016 – 1017 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1292 – 1293 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5060 – 5061 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1356 – 1357 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1222 – 1223 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4401 – 4402 |
| Holocene calendar | 11300 |
| Iranian calendar | 678 – 679 |
| Islamic calendar | 699 – 700 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3633 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1843 |
Births
- March 21 – Henry Suso, German mystic (d. 1366)
- June 1 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (d. 1338)
- September 27 – Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1327)
- date unknown
- probable
- Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, 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)
- John of Winterthur, Swiss historian
- Laurence Minot, English poet (d. 1352)
- Also see alphabetical Category:1300 births.
Deaths
- May 2 – Blanche of Artois, regent of Navarre
- July 18 – Gerard Segarelli, founder of the Apostolic Brethren (burned at stake)
- August 29 – Guido Cavalcanti, Italian poet (b. 1250)
- ?September – Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (b. 1249)
- December – Jean de Montfort-Castres, Count of Squillace
- date unknown
- Tsar Chaka, Mongol ruler of Bulgaria
- Tran Hung Dao, Vietnamese general
- Jacob van Maerlant, Flemish poet
- Richard Middleton, English theologian and philosopher
- William of Nangis, French chronicler
- Munio de Zamora, General of the Dominican Order
- Also see alphabetical Category:1300 deaths.
Notes
- ↑ "Calendar – Portugal – 1300" (Julian calendar), Time and Date AS / Steffen Thorsen, 2008, webpage: TimeandDate-calendar-1300-Portugal.
- See also: Alexandra GAJEWSKI & Zoë OPACIC (ed.), The Year 1300 and the Creation of a New European Architecture (Architectura Medii Aevi, 1), Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. ISBN 978-2-503-52286-9