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Year 1304 (MCCanCIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

January–December

  • February – John "Red" Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, negotiates a peace with the Kingdom of England in the Wars of Scottish Independence at Strathord near Perth.
  • July 20 – Fall of Stirling Castle: Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
  • August 17 – The Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle is fought to a draw between the French army and the Flemish militias.
  • October 24 – Sasa Bey of the Beylik of Menteşe conquers Ephesus from the Eastern Roman Empire, massacring and deporting its native population

    • Date unknown

  • James II of Aragon reconquers Villena, Spain.
  • Holland and Zeeland are occupied by John II, Duke of Brabant and Guy of Dampierre. John II, Count of Hainaut recovers the counties.
  • Ala-ud-din Khilji, Sultan of Delhi, conquers Gujarat.
  • The peace treaty signed between the khanates of the Mongol Empire and ends the civil war of the Mongols.
  • The Genoese Benedetto I Zaccaria takes control of Chios island from the Byzantine Empire, establishing an autonomous lordship there.
  • Construction of Ypres Cloth Hall is completed.

    • Births

  • February 24 – Ibn Battuta, Moroccan jurist
  • July 20 – Petrarch, Italian poet (d. 1374)
  • William de Clinton, 1st Earl of Huntingdon
  • Louis I of Flanders (d. 1346)
  • Jayaatu Khan, emperor of the Yuan Dynasty (d. 1332)
  • Günther von Schwarzburg, German king (d. 1349)

    • Deaths

  • March 7 or March 8 – Bartolomeo I della Scala
  • May 11 – Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271)
  • May 23 – Jehan de Lescurel, poet and composer
  • July 7 – Pope Benedict XI (b. 1240)
  • July 17 – Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Wigmore
  • August 17 – Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
  • August 22 – John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247)
  • September – John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, English soldier

    • References

    1304 Wikipedia
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