Year 1295 (MCCXCV) was a common year starting on Saturday ^[1] (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1295

• Mongol leader Ghazan Khan is converted to Islam, ending a line of Tantric Buddhist leaders.
• Philip IV of France and Pope Boniface VIII begin having disagreements.
• Jayavarman VIII of the Khmer Empire in Cambodia abdicates; Srindravarman succeeds him.
• Marco Polo returns to Italy from his travels to China.
• Edward I summons the Model Parliament.
• The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris.

[edit] Births

• September 16 - Elizabeth de Clare, English noblewoman (d. 1360)
• John IV, Duke of Brittany (d. 1345)
• Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1350)
• Reginald de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham (d. 1361)
• Joanna of Flanders, military leader in the Breton War of Succession (approximate date; d. 1374)
• Nicephorus Gregoras, Byzantine historian (approximate date; d. 1360)
• Saint Roch (approximate date; d. 1327)

Also see Category:1295 births.

[edit] Deaths

• April 25 - King Sancho IV of Castile (b. 1257)
• August 12 - Charles Martel d'Anjou (b. 1271)
• December 7 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1243)
• December 21 - Marguerite Berenger of Provence, queen of Louis IX of France (b. c. 1221)
• Meinhard II of Gorizia-Tyrol (b. 1238)

Also see Category:1295 deaths.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ "Calendar - Portugal - 1295" (Julian calendar), Time and Date AS / Steffen Thorsen, 2008, webpage: TimeandDate-calendar-1295-Portugal.