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Year 1299 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1299

April - Scots take Stirling Castle from the English after a siege.
April 1 - Kings Towne on the River Hull(Kingston upon Hull) is granted city status by Royal Charter of King Edward I of England.
December 1 - Battle of Falconaria: Frederick II of Sicily defeats Philip I of Taranto.

Undated

Osman I declares the independence of the Ottoman Principality.

The House of Holland becomes extinct. The County of Holland becomes part of a personal union with the County of Hainaut.

King Håkon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo, and builds Akershus Fortress there. Norway is ruled from this fortress the next 500 years.

A serious fire occurs at Westminster Palace.

A Mongol khan launches a campaign into India with 200,000 men, but the sultan of Delhi defeats them.

Births

date unknown

Alfonso IV of Aragon (d. 1366)
Pierre Bertrand de Colombier, French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1361)
Dmitri of Tver, Grand Prince of Vladimir (d. 1326)
Maria of Aragon, princess of Aragon (d. 1316)

probable

Ranulf Higdon, English chronicler (d. c. 1363)
Malatesta II Malatesta, Italian condottiero (d. 1364) ť Also see .

Deaths

May 17 - Daumantas of Pskov, Lithuanian prince (b. c. 1240)

July 15 - King Eric II of Norway (b. c. 1268)

November 10 - John I, Count of Holland (b. 1284)

November 13 - Oliver Sutton, Bishop of Lincoln

December 9 - Bohemond I, Archbishop of Trier

date unknown

John Giffard, English baron (b. 1232)
Gottfried Hagen, German chronicler (b. 1230)
Conrad de Lichtenberg, Bishop of Strasbourg (b. 1240)
Nogai Khan, ruler of the Golden Horde
Zafar Khan, Indian military leader

probable - Nicholas of Autrecourt, French philosopher and theologian (d. c. 1369) ť Also see .

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