1296

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

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

1296 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1296 MCCXCVI
Ab urbe condita	2049
Armenian calendar	745 ԹՎ ՉԽԵ
Assyrian calendar	6046
Balinese saka calendar	1217–1218
Bengali calendar	703
Berber calendar	2246
English Regnal year	24 Edw. 1 – 25 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1840
Burmese calendar	658
Byzantine calendar	6804–6805
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3992 or 3932     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3993 or 3933
Coptic calendar	1012–1013
Discordian calendar	2462
Ethiopian calendar	1288–1289
Hebrew calendar	5056–5057
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1352–1353
- Shaka Samvat	1217–1218
- Kali Yuga	4396–4397
Holocene calendar	11296
Igbo calendar	296–297
Iranian calendar	674–675
Islamic calendar	695–696
Japanese calendar	Einin 4 (永仁４年)
Javanese calendar	1207–1208
Julian calendar	1296 MCCXCVI
Korean calendar	3629
Minguo calendar	616 before ROC 民前616年
Nanakshahi calendar	−172
Thai solar calendar	1838–1839
Tibetan calendar	阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1422 or 1041 or 269     — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1423 or 1042 or 270

Events

January–December

• March 30 – Capture of Berwick: King Edward I of England storms and captures Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking what is at this time a Scottish border town, with much bloodshed. He slaughters most of the residents, including those who flee to the churches.[1]
• April 12 – King Mangrai the Great of Ngoenyang establishes a new capital by founding Chiangmai, and founds the Mangrai Dynasty, that will rule the Lanna Kingdom of Chiangmai from 1296 to 1578 (the 700th Anniversary Stadium was built in remembrance of this foundation).[2]
• April 27 – Battle of Dunbar: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey.[3][4]
• July 20 – Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji dies, and his nephew and son-in-law Ala-Ud-Din-Khalji comes to the throne of the Delhi Sultanate in Hindustan, becoming the most powerful ruler of his dynasty.[5]

Date unknown

• Boniface of Verona expels the Byzantines from their last remaining strongholds on Euboea.[6]
• Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan spends a year at the court of Khmer King Indravarman III at Angkor, and pens a journal setting forth his observations.[7]
• approximate date – Tarabya, self-proclaimed king of Pegu, is defeated in single combat on war elephants by Wareru.[8]

Births

• August 10 – "Blind" King John I of Bohemia (d. 1346)[9]
• December – Marjorie Bruce, Scottish princess, only daughter of Robert I of Scotland (d. 1316)[10]
• date unknown
  • Charles of Taranto (d. 1315)[11]
  • Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (d. 1359)[12]
  • Roland of Sicily, Italian nobleman (d. 1361)[13]
• probable
  • Algirdas, ruler of Lithuania (d. 1377)[14]
  • Blanche of Burgundy, queen consort of France (d. 1326)[15]
  • Shi Naian, Chinese author (d. 1370)[16]
  • Tamagusuku, ruler of Chuzan[17]

Deaths

• February 8 – King Przemysł II of Poland (b. 1257)[18]
• March 11 – John le Romeyn, Archbishop of York[19]
• March 24 – Odon de Pins, French Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller[20]
• May – William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke[21]
• May 19 – Pope Celestine V (b. 1215)[22]
• June 5 – Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)[23]
• June 27 – Floris V, Count of Holland (b. 1254)[24]
• August 7 – Heinrich II von Rotteneck, prince-bishop of Regensburg[25]
• August 9 – Hugh, Count of Brienne, French crusader[26]
• October 9 – Louis III, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1269)[27]
• November 1 – Guillaume Durand, French canonist and writer[28]
• December
  • Isabella of Mar, Scottish countess, spouse of Robert I of Scotland[29]
  • Adam de Darlington, Bishop of Caithness (approximate date)[30]
• date unknown
  • Philippe de Rémi, French lawyer and royal official (b. c. 1247)[31]
  • Campanus of Novara, Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. c. 1220)[32]
  • Dnyaneshwar, Hindu saint and poet (b. 1275)[33]
  • Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji, founder of the Khalji dynasty in India[34]
  • Tarabya of Pegu, self-proclaimed ruler[5]
  • Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford (b. c.1240)[35]

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