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| 1300 by topic |
| Politics |
| State leaders - Sovereign states |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
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1300 in other calendars
| Gregorian calendar |
1300
MCCC |
| Ab urbe condita |
2053 |
| Armenian calendar |
749
ԹՎ ՉԽԹ |
| Chinese calendar |
3996 – 3997
己亥 – 庚子 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
1292 – 1293 |
| Hebrew calendar |
5060 – 5061 |
| Hindu calendars |
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| - Vikram Samvat |
1355 – 1356 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
1222 – 1223 |
| - Kali Yuga |
4401 – 4402 |
| Iranian calendar |
678 – 679 |
| Islamic calendar |
699 – 700 |
Events
- February 22 - Jubilee of Pope Boniface VIII.
- 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.
- March 25 - Dante descends to the Inferno in The Divine Comedy.
- Money from Florence, Italy becomes the first International Currency.
- Philip IV of France begins attempt to annex Flanders.
- Wenceslas II of Bohemia becomes King of Poland.
- A census in Imperial China finds that is has roughly 60 million inhabitants. (Having lost 20 millions after nearly a century of Mongolian conquest.)
- The Tuareg establish a state centered on Agadez.
- Amsterdam officially declared a city.
- June 15 - Bilbao is founded.
Births
- June 1 - Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (died 1338)
- John III, Duke of Brabant (died 1355)
- Jean Buridan, French philosopher and religious skeptic (died 1358)
- Qutugtu Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire (died 1329)
- Laurence Minot, English poet (died 1352)
- Andrea Tafi, Italian artist (died 1325)
- Chihab Addine Abul-Abbas Ahmad ben Fadhl Al-Umari, Arab historian (died 1384)
Deaths
- May 2 - Blanche of Artois, regent of Navarre
- Guido Cavalcanti, Italian poet (born 1250)
- Tsar Chaka, Mongol ruler of Bulgaria
- Tran Hung Dao, Vietnamese general
- William of Nangis, French chronicler
- Munio de Zamora, General of the Dominican Order
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