Years: 1297 1298 1299 - 1300 - 1301 1302 1303

Decades: 1270s 1280s 1290s - 1300s - 1310s 1320s 1330s

Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century 1300 state leaders

Events

• Beginning of the Renaissance.
• Abacus first used in China.
• Money from Florence, Italy becomes the first International Currency .
• Philip IV of France begins attempt to annex Flanders.
• Wenceslas II of Bohemia becomes King of Poland.
• Jubilee of Pope Boniface VIII.
• The Tuareg establish a state centered on Agadez.

Births

Deaths

• May 2 - Blanche of Artois, regent of Navarre, Countess of Lancaster
• Guido Cavalcanti, Italian poet