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== Events ==

=== By place ===

==== Asia ====
* [[Shanghai County]] is established.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.shtong.gov.cn/difangzhi-front/book/detailNew?oneId=2&bookId=344775&parentNodeId=344806&nodeId=641941&type=-1 |publisher = Government of Shanghai |title = 行政区划 (in Chinese) |access-date = 4 January 2024 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240505092811/https://www.shtong.gov.cn/difangzhi-front/book/detailNew?oneId=2&bookId=344775&parentNodeId=344806&nodeId=641940&type=-1%2A |archive-date = 5 May 2024 |url-status=live |df = dmy-all }}</ref>
* [[Kublai Khan]] sends a Mongol expeditionary force (some 20,000 men) to [[Java]]. He collects an invasion fleet with some 500–1,000 ships and enough provisions for a year from [[Fujian]], [[Jiangxi]] and [[Huguang]] in southern [[China]]. The fleet travels past [[Champa]] (modern [[Vietnam]]) and the [[Karimata Islands]]. The Mongols land on Java, taking the capital of [[kediri (city)|Kediri]], but it proves impossible to hold.<ref>Man, John (2007). ''Kublai Khan: The Mongol king who remade China'', p. 281. London: Bantam Books. {{ISBN|978-0-553-81718-8}}.</ref>
* King [[Mangrai]] the Great of [[Ngoenyang]] conquers and annexes the [[Mon people|Mon]] kingdom of [[Hariphunchai]], creating a political union in the form of the [[Lan Na]] Kingdom.
* The [[Vaghela dynasty]] in [[Gujarat]] (located along the [[Western India|western coast]] of [[India]]) is subjugated by the [[Deccan Plateau|Deccan]] [[Seuna (Yadava) dynasty]] of [[Daulatabad, Maharashtra|Daulatabad]].

==== Britain ====
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[John Balliol]] is selected by King [[Edward I of England]] as ruler of [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]] at [[Berwick-upon-Tweed|Berwick]] from among 13 [[competitors for the Crown of Scotland]]. Edward then treats John as a [[Puppet state|puppet ruler]] and Scotland as a vassal state, provoking the [[Wars of Scottish Independence]], commencing in [[1296]]. John is crowned at [[Scone, Scotland|Scone]] on [[November 30]] ([[Saint Andrew's Day]]). Scotland's castles are returned to the powerful magnates.<ref>Dunbar, Sir Archibald H., Bt, ''Scottish Kings – A Revised Chronology of Scottish History 1005–1625'', p. 115. Edinburgh, 1899.</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Lynch |editor1-first=Michael |title=The Oxford Companion to Scottish history |date=February 24, 2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199693054 |pages=281–282}}</ref>
* [[December]] &ndash; John Balliol is summoned by Edward I to [[Westminster]] to answer an appeal by [[Macduff of Fife]] against a judgment imposed on him by the Scottish Parliament. John refuses to answer Macduff's appeal, 'without consulting the people of his realm'. Edward asks for compensation for the violation of English law and demands to hand him over three Scottish castles as repayment for the crime committed.<ref>Armstrong, Pete (2003). Osprey: ''Stirling Bridge & Falkirk 1297–98'', p. 9. {{ISBN|1-84176-510-4}}.</ref>

==== Europe ====
* [[May 5]] &ndash; The College of Electors select [[Adolf, King of the Romans|Adolf]], count of Nassau, as the new King of the Romans and successor of Habsburg [[Rudolf I of Germany|Rudolf I]] who had died the previous year. Adolf is forced to make wide-ranging concessions to the Electors to get elected. He is crowned king on June 24 in Aachen by the Archbishop of Cologne.
* [[June 24]] &ndash; Castilian forces led by King [[Sancho IV of Castile|Sancho IV]] ("the Brave") begin the siege of [[Tarifa]]: eleven newly built engines bombard the city constantly by land and sea. Meanwhile, [[Muhammad II of Granada|Muhammad II]], Nasrid ruler of [[Emirate of Granada|Granada]], provides the army of Sancho with men, arms and also aids the blockade in the [[Strait of Gibraltar]]. Muhammad attacks Marinid outposts and his forces seize [[Estepona]] on the coast to the west of [[Málaga]]. Sancho conquers Tarifa after a siege of four months, on [[October 13]].<ref>O'Callaghan, Joseph F. (2011). ''The Gibraltar Crusade: Castile and the Battle for the Strait'', pp. 100–101. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press. {{ISBN|978-0-8122-2302-6}}.</ref>
* [[December]] &ndash; Muhammad II sends ambassadors to the Castilian court to ask Sancho IV to surrender Tarifa. Sancho refuses to yield the city to Granada and Muhammad, feeling betrayed, switches sides to form an alliance with the Marinids.<ref>O'Callaghan, Joseph F. (2011). ''The Gibraltar Crusade: Castile and the Battle for the Strait'', p. 102. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press. {{ISBN|978-0-8122-2302-6}}.</ref><ref>Kennedy, Hugh (2014). ''Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of Al-Andalus'', pp. 284–285. London: Routledge. {{ISBN|978-1-317-87041-8}}.</ref>

==== Levant ====
* Mamluk forces under Sultan [[Al-Ashraf Khalil]] accompanied by his vizier [[Ibn al-Sal'us]] arrive in [[Damascus]]. Khalil travels via [[Aleppo]] to besiege the castle of [[Rumkale]] (Qal'at ar-Rum, "Castle of the Romans"), the official seat of [[Stephen IV of Cilicia|Stephen IV]], patriarch of [[Armenia]]. The Mamluks besiege the castle with more than 30 catapults and capture it after 30 days.<ref>The [[Templar of Tyre]], Chronicle (Getes des Chiprois). Published by Crawford, P., Ashgate Publishing. Ltd, Cyprus 2003. {{ISBN|1-84014-618-4}}.</ref>
* Al-Ashraf Khalil returns to Damascus and assembles an army to attack [[Kozan, Adana|Sis]], the capital of the [[Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia]]. An Armenian embassy arrives in Damascus, and reaches a settlement with Khalil. The cities of [[Toprakkale, Osmaniye|Til Hemdun]], [[Marash]] and [[Besni|Behesni]] are given to the Mamluks in order to maintain peace.
* [[November]] &ndash; [[Michael II of Antioch|Michael II]] becomes [[Syriac Orthodox Church|Syriac Orthodox]] patriarch of [[Antioch]] (until [[1312]]).<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Carlson| first=Thomas A. |date=2018|title=Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Iraq|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=267}}</ref>

=== By topic ===

==== Religion ====
* Spring &ndash; The ''[[Taxatio Ecclesiastica]]'', compiled in 1291–1292, is completed under the order of [[Pope Nicholas IV]]. It is a detailed database valuation for ecclesiastical taxation of English, Welsh and Irish churches.
* [[April 4]] &ndash; Nicholas IV dies after a 4-year pontificate in [[Rome]]. The cardinals assemble at [[Perugia]] to elect a new pope ([[1292–1294 papal election]]).