1296
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 12th century · 13th century · 14th century |
| Decades: | 1260s · 1270s · 1280s · 1290s · 1300s · 1310s · 1320s |
| Years: | 1293 · 1294 · 1295 · 1296 · 1297 · 1298 · 1299 |
| 1296 by topic | |
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| 1296 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1296 MCCXCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2049 |
| Armenian calendar | 745 ԹՎ ՉԽԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6046 |
| Bengali calendar | 703 |
| Berber calendar | 2246 |
| English Regnal year | 24 Edw. 1 – 25 Edw. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1840 |
| Burmese calendar | 658 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6804–6805 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3992 or 3932 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3993 or 3933 |
| Coptic calendar | 1012–1013 |
| Discordian calendar | 2462 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1288–1289 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5056–5057 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1352–1353 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1217–1218 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4396–4397 |
| Holocene calendar | 11296 |
| Igbo calendar | 296–297 |
| Iranian calendar | 674–675 |
| Islamic calendar | 695–696 |
| Japanese calendar | Einin 4 (永仁４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1207–1208 |
| Julian calendar | 1296 MCCXCVI |
| Korean calendar | 3629 |
| Minguo calendar | 616 before ROC 民前616年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −172 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1838–1839 |
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Year 1296 (MCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- 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 residents, including those who flee to the churches.
- April 12 – King Mangrai the Great of Ngoenyang establishes a new capital by founding Chiangmai and founds the Mangrai Dynasty that ruled the Lanna Kingdom of Chiangmai from 1296 to 1578. The 700th Anniversary Stadium was built in remembrance of this foundation.
- April 27 – Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
- July 20 – Jalal ud din Firuz Khilji dies and Ala-Ud-Din-Khilji comes to the throne of the Delhi Sultanate in Hindustan.
- The Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan spends a year at the court of the Khmer King Indravarman III at Angkor and pens a journal setting forth his observations.
- Boniface of Verona expels the Byzantines from their last remaining strongholds on Euboea.
Births
- August 10 – "Blind" King John I of Bohemia (d. 1346)
- December – Marjorie Bruce, only daughter of Robert I of Scotland (d. 1316)
- date unknown
- Charles of Taranto (d. 1315)
- Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (d. 1359)
- Roland of Sicily, Italian nobleman (d. 1361)
- probable
- Algirdas, ruler of Lithuania (d. 1377)
- Blanche of Burgundy, queen consort of France (d. 1326)
- Shi Naian, Chinese author (d. 1370)
- Tamagusuku, ruler of Chuzan
Deaths
- February 8 – King Przemysł II of Poland (b. 1257)
- March 11 – John le Romeyn, Archbishop of York
- March 24 – Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
- May – William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke
- May 19 – Pope Celestine V (b. 1215)
- June 5 – Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, son of Henry III of England (born 1245)
- June 27 – Floris V, Count of Holland (b. 1254)
- August 8 – Hugh of Brienne, French crusader
- October 9 – Louis III, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1269)
- November 1 – Guillaume Durand, French canonist and writer
- December
- Isabella of Mar, wife of Robert I of Scotland
- Adam de Darlington, Bishop of Caithness (approximate date)
- date unknown
- Philippe de Rémi (b. c. 1247)
- Campanus of Novara, Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. c. 1220)
- Dnyaneshwar, Hindu saint and poet (b. 1275)
- Jalal ud din Firuz Khilji, founder of the Khilji dynasty in India
- Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford
References
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