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Year 1299 (MCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • February 24 – Alauddin Khilji, sultan of Delhi, sends his generals Ulugh Khan and Nusrat Khan to conquer Gujarat.
  • May 10 – Kyawswa of Pagan and Crown Prince Theingapati are executed at Myinsaing by the three brothers of the Myinsaing Kingdom (nominally Kyawswa's viceroys) as traitors for submitting to the Mongol Empire.
  • July 27 – Osman I declares his Anatolian beylik (principality) to be independent of the Seljuq dynasty Sultanate of Rum, originating the Ottoman Empire which will last until the 1920s.
  • A Mongol khan launches a campaign into India with 200,000 men, but Alauddin Khilji, sultan of Delhi, defeats them.
  • Founding of the Kingdom of Singapura by a fleeing Srivijayan prince which will last for almost 100 years.

    • Europe

  • April – Scots take Stirling Castle from the English after a siege.
  • April 1 – Kings Towne on the River Hull (Kingston upon Hull) is granted city status by Royal Charter of King Edward I of England.
  • July 31 – Pisa and Genoa agree to a thirty year truce. Part of the treaty includes the end of the Pisan support to Genoa's enemies, in particular Sinucello della Rocca in Corsica.
  • November 1 – Håkon V Magnusson becomes king of Norway.
  • December 1 – Battle of Falconaria: Frederick II of Sicily defeats Philip I of Taranto.
  • The House of Holland becomes extinct. The County of Holland becomes part of a personal union with the County of Hainaut.
  • A serious fire occurs at Westminster Palace.
  • Early evidence of the king of England borrowing from the Italian merchants. Edward I obtains a loan of 2,000 pollard marks from the agents of the Frescobaldi firm in London.

    • Markets

  • The city of Florence bans the use of Arabic numerals for commerce, allowing only Roman numerals.

    • Births

  • date unknown
  • Alfonso IV of Aragon (d. 1366)
  • Pierre Bertrand de Colombier, French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1361)
  • Dmitri of Tver, Grand Prince of Vladimir (d. 1326)
  • Maria of Aragon, princess of Aragon (d. 1316)
  • probable
  • Ranulf Higdon, English chronicler (d. c. 1363)
  • Malatesta II Malatesta, Italian condottiero (d. 1364)
  • Nicholas of Autrecourt, French philosopher and theologian (d. 1369)

    • Deaths

  • May 10
  • Kyawswa of Pagan, deposed ruler of the Pagan Kingdom (born 1260)
  • Theingapati, heir to the Pagan Kingdom
  • May 17 – Daumantas of Pskov, Lithuanian prince (b. c. 1240)
  • July 15 – King Eric II of Norway (b. c. 1268)
  • August 1 – Conrad de Lichtenberg, Bishop of Strasbourg (b. 1240)
  • November 10 – John I, Count of Holland (b. 1284)
  • November 13 – Oliver Sutton, Bishop of Lincoln
  • December 9 – Bohemond I, Archbishop of Trier
  • December 31 – Margaret, Countess of Anjou (b. 1273)
  • date unknown
  • John Giffard, English baron (b. 1232)
  • Gottfried Hagen, German chronicler (b. 1230)
  • Nogai Khan, ruler of the Golden Horde
  • Zafar Khan, Indian military leader
  • Yakut al-Mustasim, Turkish secretary of the last Abbasid caliph

    • References

    1299 Wikipedia
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