Major Events
- Jan 9 Floris V, Count of Holland, signs accord with Philip IV of France after the English move their wool trade to Flanders
- Feb 20 Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan departs Mingzhou for Angkor, chief city of the Khmer Empire; he will be the first foreigner to describe life in the city [1]
- Feb 24 Pope Boniface VIII decree Clericis Iaicos
- Mar 30 Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England
- Apr 27 Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England
- Jul 17 Illuminated Hebrew Bible, the "Rothschild Pentateuch", signed and completed by scribes Elijah ben Meshullam and Elijah ben Jehiel (now in the Getty Museum) [1]
Born in 1296
- Aug 10 John the Blind, King of Bohemia (1310-46) and Count of Luxembourg, born in Luxembourg (d. 1346)
Who Died in 1296
- Feb 8 Przemysł II, King of Poland (1295-96), dies at 38
- May 19 Celestine V [Pietro del Murrone], Pope (1294), dies
- Jun 5 Edmund Crouchback, English prince and son of Henry III of England, dies at 51
- Jun 27 Floris V, Count of Holland & Zeeland, murdered after being captured by local lords in a conspiracy encouraged by the English crown at 41
- Sep 28 Adolf VIII, Count of Berg (1259-96), dies imprisoned at about 56
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