1300

1300
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Centuries:	12th century - 13th century - 14th century
Decades:	1270s 1280s 1290s - 1300s - 1310s 1320s 1330s
Years:	1297 1298 1299 - 1300 - 1301 1302 1303

1300 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture -
Art - Literature - Music - Science
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1300 was a leap year starting on Friday ^[1] (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1300

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.
April 12 - Remus Halifax is born.
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.

Also see alphabetical Category:1300 births.

Also see alphabetical Category:1300 deaths.

^ "Calendar - Portugal - 1300" (Julian calendar), Time and Date AS / Steffen Thorsen, 2008, webpage: TimeandDate-calendar-1300-Portugal.