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Events

• February 22 - The Jubilee of Pope Boniface VIII is celebrated. It is at this celebration that Giovanni Villani decides to write his universal history of Florence, the Cronica.
• March 10 - Wardrobe accounts of King Edward I of England (aka Edward Longshanks) include a reference to a game called creag being played at the town of Newenden in Kent. It is generally agreed that creag was an early form of cricket (see also History of cricket to 1696).
• March 25 - Dante descends to the Inferno in The Divine Comedy.
• June 15 - The city of Bilbao is founded.
• Money from Florence, Italy becomes the first international currency.
• Philip IV of France begins his attempt to annex Flanders.
• Wenceslas II of Bohemia becomes King of Poland.
• A census in Imperial China finds that it has roughly 60 million inhabitants (having lost 20 million after nearly a century of Mongolian conquests).
• The Tuareg establish a state centered on Agadez.
• Amsterdam is officially declared a city.

• Jacob ben Machir is appointed dean of the medical school at Montpellier.

Births

• March 21 - Henry Suso, German mystic (d. 1366)
• June 1 - Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (d. 1338)
• September 27 - Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1327)
• date unknown
  • John III, Duke of Brabant (d. 1355)
  • Jean Buridan, French philosopher and religious skeptic (d. 1358)
  • Khutughtu Khan, Emperor Mingzong of Yuan, ruler of the Mongol Empire (d. 1329)
  • Chihab Addine Abul-Abbas Ahmad ben Fadhl Al-Umari, Arab historian (d. 1384)
  • Robert, Count of Burgundy (d. 1315)
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  • Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, Augustinian monk (d. 1342)
  • Geoffroi de Charny, French knight and chivalric writer (d. 1356)
  • Richard FitzRalph, Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1360)
  • Taddeo Gaddi, Italian painter and architect (d. 1366)
  • John of Winterthur, Swiss historian
  • Laurence Minot, English poet (d. 1352)

Deaths

• May 2 - Blanche of Artois, regent of Navarre
• July 18 - Gerard Segarelli, founder of the Apostolic Brethren (burned at stake)
• August 29 - Guido Cavalcanti, Italian poet (b. 1250)
• ?September - Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (b. 1249)
• December - Jean de Montfort-Castres, Count of Squillace
• date unknown
  • Tsar Chaka, Mongol ruler of Bulgaria
  • Tran Hung Dao, Vietnamese general
  • Jacob van Maerlant, Flemish poet
  • Richard Middleton, English theologian and philosopher
  • William of Nangis, French chronicler
  • Munio de Zamora, General of the Dominican Orderaf:1300

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