1296

Template:Use mdy dates Template:About year Template:Year nav Template:C13 year in topicYear 1296 (MCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• March 30 – Capture of Berwick: King Edward I of England storms and captures Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking what is at this time a Scottish border town, with much bloodshed. He slaughters most of the residents, including those who flee to the churches.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• April 12 – King Mangrai the Great of Ngoenyang establishes a new capital by founding Chiangmai, and founds the Mangrai Dynasty, that will rule the Lanna Kingdom of Chiangmai from 1296 to 1578 (the 700th Anniversary Stadium will be built in remembrance of this foundation).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• April 27 – Battle of Dunbar: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey.<ref>Template:Historic Environment Scotland</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• July 20 – Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji dies, and his nephew and son-in-law Ala-Ud-Din-Khalji comes to the throne of the Delhi Sultanate in Hindustan, becoming the most powerful ruler of his dynasty.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref>
• October 21 – The formal coronation of Alauddin Khalji as Sultan of Delhi takes place, and he takes the regnal name Muhammad Shah I.<ref>S. B. Bhattacherje, Encyclopaedia of Indian Events & Dates (Sterling Publishers, 2009) p.A34</ref>

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• Boniface of Verona expels the Byzantines from their last remaining strongholds on Euboea.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan spends a year at the court of Khmer King Indravarman III at Angkor, and pens a journal setting forth his observations.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• approximate date – Tarabya, self-proclaimed king of Pegu, is defeated in single combat on war elephants by Wareru.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Births

• August 10 – "Blind" King John I of Bohemia (d. 1346)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• December – Marjorie Bruce, Scottish princess, only daughter of Robert I of Scotland (d. 1316)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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  • Charles of Taranto (d. 1315)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• • Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (d. 1359)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Roland of Sicily, Italian nobleman (d. 1361)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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  • Algirdas, ruler of Lithuania (d. 1377)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Blanche of Burgundy, queen consort of France (d. 1326)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Shi Naian, Chinese author (d. 1370)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Tamagusuku, ruler of Chuzan<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Deaths

• February 8 – King Przemysł II of Poland (b. 1257)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• March 11 – John le Romeyn, Archbishop of York<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• March 24 – Odon de Pins, French Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• May – William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• May 19 – Pope Celestine V (b. 1215)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• June 5 – Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• June 27 – Floris V, Count of Holland (b. 1254)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• August 7 – Heinrich II von Rotteneck, prince-bishop of Regensburg<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• August 9 – Hugh, Count of Brienne, French crusader<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• October 9 – Louis III, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1269)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• November 1 – Guillaume Durand, French canonist and writer<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• December
  • Isabella of Mar, Scottish countess, spouse of Robert I of Scotland<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Adam de Darlington, Bishop of Caithness (approximate date)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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  • Philippe de Rémi, French lawyer and royal official (b. c. 1247)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Campanus of Novara, Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. c. 1220)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Dnyaneshwar, Hindu saint and poet (b. 1275)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji, founder of the Khalji dynasty in India<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Tarabya of Pegu, self-proclaimed ruler<ref name=":0" />
  • Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford (b. c.1240)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>