Year 1298 (MCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
July – Emperor Go-Fushimi succeeds Emperor Fushimi on the throne of Japan.
John Tarchaneiotes is appointed governor of the southern portions of Byzantine Anatolia.
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: Edward I of England defeats a Scottish army led by William Wallace.
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.
The foreign creditors of the Sienese Gran Tavola bank start demanding their deposits back thus accelerating the liquidity crisis faced by the firm.
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.
The Chinese governmental minister Wang Zhen (official) invents wooden movable type printing (Bi Sheng invented ceramic movable type in the 11th century).
December 12 – Albert II, Duke 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
April 17 – Árni Þorláksson, Icelandic bishop (b. 1237)
June 11 – Yolanda of Poland, Hungarian princess (b. 1235)
July 2 – King Adolf of Germany (b. c. 1255)
July 13 or July 16 – 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, King 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 – Mechtilde, Saxon saint (b. c. 1240)
December 31 – Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1249)
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
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