1298

This article is about the year 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 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1298 in poetry

1298 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1298 MCCXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2051
Armenian calendar	747 ԹՎ ՉԽԷ
Assyrian calendar	6048
Bengali calendar	705
Berber calendar	2248
English Regnal year	26 Edw. 1 – 27 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1842
Burmese calendar	660
Byzantine calendar	6806–6807
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 3994 or 3934     — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 3995 or 3935
Coptic calendar	1014–1015
Discordian calendar	2464
Ethiopian calendar	1290–1291
Hebrew calendar	5058–5059
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1354–1355
- Shaka Samvat	1220–1221
- Kali Yuga	4399–4400
Holocene calendar	11298
Igbo calendar	298–299
Iranian calendar	676–677
Islamic calendar	697–698
Japanese calendar	Einin 6 (永仁６年)
Julian calendar	1298 MCCXCVIII
Korean calendar	3631
Minguo calendar	614 before ROC 民前614年
Thai solar calendar	1840–1841

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

Events

By area

Asia

• July – Emperor Go-Fushimi succeeds Emperor Fushimi on the throne of Japan.
• John Tarchaneiotes is appointed governor of the southern portions of Byzantine Anatolia.

Europe

• April 20 – Beginning of the Rintfleisch-Pogrom, the Jews of Röttingen are burned en masse, other Jewish communities are destroyed later in the year
• June 1 – Residents of Riga and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida
• 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. A majority of Edward's infantry are Welsh.
• August 1 – Foundation of the "ideal city" of Marciac, Gascogne, France through the king Philippe IV le Bel and Guichard de Marzé.
• 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 Rustichello da Pisa.
• After a year's siege, the revolting commune of Palestrina near Rome surrenders and is razed to the ground and salted by order of Pope Boniface VIII in an act of debellatio.

By topic

Markets

• The foreign creditors of the Sienese Gran Tavola bank start demanding their deposits back thus accelerating the liquidity crisis faced by the firm.

Religion

• 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.

Technology

• The Chinese governmental minister Wang Zhen (official) invents wooden movable type printing (Bi Sheng invented ceramic movable type in the 11th century).

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)
• June 11 – Jolenta of Poland, Hungarian princess (b. 1235)
• July 2 – King Adolf of Germany (b. c. 1255)
• July 13 – Jacobus de Voragine, Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa
• July 22 – Sir John de Graham, Scottish soldier at the Battle of Falkirk
• July 23 – King Thoros III of Armenia (b. c. 1271)
• 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)
  • Mordecai ben Hillel, German rabbi (b. c. 1250)
  • Nino Visconti, ruler of Gallula
  • Emperor Smilets of Bulgaria (b. 1292)
• probable
  • William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas, Scottish warlord
  • Thomas Learmonth, Scottish minstrel