1302

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Year 1302 (MCCCII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events[]

January–December[]

• April 10 – The first meeting of the Estates General of the Kingdom of France is convened by Philip IV of France, at the Notre-Dame in Paris.
• May 18 – Bruges Matins: The French garrison in Bruges is massacred at night, by members of the local Flemish militia.
• June 12 – Rakvere, Estonia, receives Lübeck city rights.
• July 11 – Battle of the Golden Spurs (also called the Battle of Courtrai): the County of Flanders gains a major victory over the Kingdom of France.
• July 27 – Battle of Bapheus: The Ottoman Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire, heralding the Turkish conquest of Bithynia.
• September 24 – Treaty of Caltabellotta: Charles II of Naples makes peace with Frederick III of Sicily, ending the War of the Sicilian Vespers.^[1]
• September 26 – Fall of Ruad: The last Crusader stronghold in the Levant is conquered.
• October 4 – A peace treaty between the Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Venice ends the Byzantine–Venetian War (1296–1302).
• November 18 – Boniface VIII publishes the Papal bull Unam Sanctam.

Date unknown[]

• Roger de Flor founds the Catalan Company, with soldiers (Almogavars) jobless after the Treaty of Caltabellotta.
• Castile occupies the harbor of Algiers.
• Jičín, Bohemia is chartered as a city.
• Pope Boniface VIII suppresses the Franciscans.
• The Estates General of France meets for the first time.
• Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence by the Black Guelphs, as is Petrarch's father (see Guelphs and Ghibellines).
• Robert the Bruce, king of Scotland, reconciles with Edward I of England.
• Philip IV of France confiscates Jewish property.
• The Confucian Temple is erected in Beijing.

Births[]

• December 7 – Azzone Visconti, Lord of Milan (d. 1339)
• date unknown
  • Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Islamic scholar (d. 1367)
  • Andrew Corsini, Italian bishop (d. 1373)
  • Domhnall II, Earl of Mar (d. 1332)

Deaths[]

• January 19 – Al-Hakim I, Caliph of Cairo
• March 9 or March 9 1301 – Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Arundel (b. 1267)
• March 20 – Ralph Walpole, Bishop of Norwich
• May 2 – Blanche of Artois, dowager, former queen consort and regent of Navarre (b. c. 1248)
• July 11 (Battle of the Spurs):
  • Pierre Flotte, French politician and lawyer
  • Robert II, Count of Artois (b. 1250)
• September 18 – Eudokia Palaiologina, Empress of Trebizond (b. c. 1265)
• November 17 or November 17 1301 – St. Gertrude the Great, German saint
• December 26 – Valdemar, King of Sweden, 1250–1275 (b. c. 1238/1239)
• December 31 – Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1238)
• date unknown
  • Godfrey Giffard, English bishop and politician (b. c. 1235)
  • Hu Sanxing, Song dynasty Chinese historian (b. 1230)
• probable
  • Cimabue, Florentine painter who discovered Giotto
  • Infanta Sancha of Portugal (b. 1264)

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