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Year 1284 (MCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Africa

  • Putting an end to the Bedouin rebellion that had toppled his brother in 1283, Abu Hafs Umar I reconquers Tunis and reinstalls the Hafsids as the dominating dynasty in Ifriqiya.
  • Peter III of Aragon takes advantage of the weakness of the Hafsid dynasty and raids the island of Jerba. The Aragonese massacre the population and occupy the island.

    • Asia

  • Mamluk sultan of Egypt Al Mansur Qalawun signs a ten-year truce with the Crusader city of Acre; he will violate the truce on pretexts in 1290.
  • The Mongol Golden Horde, led by Nogai Khan, attacks Hungary a second time.
  • The Byzantine city Tralles falls to the Turkish emirate of Menteşe. Twenty thousand people are led off as slaves.

    • Europe

  • March 3 – The Statute of Rhuddlan extends English law to Wales.
  • June 5 – King Charles II of Naples is captured in the Battle of the Gulf of Naples by Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon.
  • August 5–6 – Battle of Meloria: The Italian city-state of Genoa defeats its rival Pisa at sea, ending Pisa's marine power and hastening the city's decline in power.
  • King Stefan Dragutin of Serbia receives Belgrade, Syrmia, and other territories from Hungary, when his son marries the king of Hungary's cousin.
  • The Kingdom of Germany imposes a trade embargo on Norway, due to the latter pillaging a German ship. The embargo cuts off vital supplies of grain, flour, vegetables and beer, causing a general famine.
  • The German city of Hamburg is destroyed by a fire.
  • The events giving rise to the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin take place in Lower Saxony.

    • Arts and culture

  • Construction of Beauvais Cathedral is interrupted by a partial collapse of the choir; the event unnerves French masons working in the Gothic style.
  • Jean de Meun translates Vegetius' 4th century military treatise De Re Militari from Latin into French.

    • Education

  • Peterhouse, the oldest collegiate foundation of the University of Cambridge in England, is established by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely.

    • Health

  • Completion of the al-Mansuri bimaristan (hospital) in Cairo.

    • Markets

  • The Republic of Venice begins coining the ducat, a gold coin that is to become the standard of European coinage for the following six hundred years.

    • Births

  • April 25 – King Edward II of England (d. 1327)
  • date unknown
  • John I, Count of Holland (d. 1299)
  • Edward, Count of Savoy (d. 1329)

    • Deaths

  • March 24 – Hugh III of Cyprus (b., 1235)
  • April – Adelaide of Holland, regent of Holland (b. c.1230)
  • April 4 – King Alfonso X of Castile (b. 1221)
  • April 20 – Hōjō Tokimune, regent of Japan (b. 1251)
  • August 10 – Tekuder, Khan of the Mongol Ilkhanate (executed)
  • August 19 – Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (b. 1273)

    • References

    1284 Wikipedia
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