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Decades:	1260s  1270s  1280s  – 1290s –  1300s  1310s  1320s
Years:	1294 1295 1296 – 1297 – 1298 1299 1300

1297 in topic:

Subjects:               Architecture – Art

Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1297 (MCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday ^[1] (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1297 1.1 Undated 1.2 Ongoing 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Notes

[edit] Events of 1297

• January 8 – Monaco gains independence.
• August 28 – Edward I unsuccessfully invades Flanders.
• September 11 – Battle of Stirling Bridge: The Scottish armies of Andrew de Moray and William Wallace defeat the English.
• September 12 – King Diniz of Portugal and King Fernando IV of Spain sign the Treaty of Alcanizes. The geographic limits of Portugal are fixed permanently, with the exception of São Félix de Galegos, lost in 1640 and Olivenza, lost in 1801.

[edit] Undated

• King Louis IX of France is canonized.
• A Portuguese Water Dog is first described in a monk’s report of a drowning sailor who had been pulled from the sea by a dog.^[2]

[edit] Ongoing

• War of the Sicilian Vespers (1284–1302)
• First War of Scottish Independence (1296–1328)

1297 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1297 MCCXCVII
Ab urbe condita	2050
Armenian calendar	746 ԹՎ ՉԽԶ
Bahá'í calendar	-547 – -546
Bengali calendar	704
Berber calendar	2247
Buddhist calendar	1841
Burmese calendar	659
Byzantine calendar	6805 – 6806
Chinese calendar	丙申年十二月初七日 (3933/3993-12-7) — to — 丁酉年十二月十六日 (3934/3994-12-16)
Coptic calendar	1013 – 1014
Ethiopian calendar	1289 – 1290
Hebrew calendar	5057 – 5058
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1352 – 1353
- Shaka Samvat	1219 – 1220
- Kali Yuga	4398 – 4399
Holocene calendar	11297
Iranian calendar	675 – 676
Islamic calendar	696 – 697
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3630
Thai solar calendar	1840
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[edit] Births

• March 25
  • Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (d. 1364)
  • Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1341)
• August 14 – Emperor Hanazono of Japan (d. 1348)
• date unknown
  • Joseph Caspi, Provençal grammarian (d. 1340)
  • Charles II of Alençon,Count of Alençon and Perche 1325–1346, Count of Joigny 1335–1336 (d. 1346)
  • Kęstutis, Grand Prince of Lithuania (d. 1382)
  • Louis of Burgundy, King of Thessalonica (d. 1316)
  • Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell (d. 1349)
• probable
  • Abu Al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman, Sultan of Morocco (d. 1351)
  • Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake, sister-in-law of King Edward II of England and mother-in-law of Edward, the Black Prince

[edit] Deaths

• January 23 – Florent of Hainaut, Prince of Achaea (b. c. 1255)
• February 22 – Saint Margaret of Cortona (b. 1247)
• March – Patriarch John XI of Constantinople (b. c. 1225)
• May 18 – Nicholas Longespee, Bishop of Salisbury
• August 13 – Nawrūz, Mongol emir
• August 14 – Frederick III, Burgrave of Nuremberg (b. c. 1220)
• August 16 – John II, Emperor of Trebizond (b. c. 1262)
• August 19 – Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop (b. 1274)
• August 20 – William Fraser, bishop and Guardian of Scotland
• September – Andrew Moray, Scottish resistance leader
• September 11 – Hugh de Cressingham, English Treasurer
• December 28 – Hugh Aycelin, French cardinal (b. 1230)
• December 31 – Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1249)
• date unknown
  • Ronald Crawford, Scottish clan chief (b. c. 1240)
  • Guido I da Polenta, Lord of Ravenna
  • Marianus II of Arborea, Judge of Arborea
• probable – Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas, ruler of Epirus

[edit] Notes

1. ^ "Calendar – Portugal – 1297" (Julian calendar), Time and Date AS / Steffen Thorsen, 2008, webpage: TimeandDate-calendar-1297-Portugal.
2. ^ "History of the Portuguese Water Dog", Kathryn Braund and Deyanne Farrell Miller, The Complete Portuguese Water Dog, 1986, DeLeao.