1296

January–December

• March 30 - Capture of Berwick: King Edward I of England storms and captures Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking what is at this time a Scottish border town, with much bloodshed. He slaughters most of the residents, including those who flee to the churches.
• April 12 - King Mangrai the Great of Ngoenyang establishes a new capital by founding Chiangmai, and founds the Mangrai Dynasty, that will rule the Lanna Kingdom of Chiangmai from 1296 to 1578.
• April 27 - Battle of Dunbar: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey.
• July 20 - Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji dies, and his nephew and son-in-law Ala-Ud-Din-Khalji comes to the throne of the Delhi Sultanate in Hindustan, becoming the most powerful ruler of his dynasty.

  Date unknown

• Boniface of Verona expels the Byzantines from their last remaining strongholds on Euboea.
• Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan spends a year at the court of Khmer King Indravarman III at Angkor, and pens a journal setting forth his observations.
• approximate date - Tarabya, self-proclaimed king of Pegu, is defeated in single combat on war elephants by Wareru.

  Births

• August 10 - "Blind" King John I of Bohemia
• December - Marjorie Bruce, Scottish princess, only daughter of Robert I of Scotland
• date unknown
• *Charles of Taranto
• * Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica
• * Roland of Sicily, Italian nobleman
• probable
• *Algirdas, ruler of Lithuania
• * Blanche of Burgundy, queen consort of France
• * Shi Naian, Chinese author
• * Tamagusuku, ruler of Chuzan

  Deaths

• February 8 - King Przemysł II of Poland
• March 11 - John le Romeyn, Archbishop of York
• March 24 - Odon de Pins, French Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
• May - William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke
• May 19 - Pope Celestine V
• June 5 - Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, son of Henry III of England
• June 27 - Floris V, Count of Holland
• August 7 - Heinrich II von Rotteneck, prince-bishop of Regensburg
• August 9 - Hugh, Count of Brienne, French crusader
• October 9 - Louis III, Duke of Bavaria
• November 1 - Guillaume Durand, French canonist and writer
• December
• *Isabella of Mar, Scottish countess, spouse of Robert I of Scotland
• * Adam de Darlington, Bishop of Caithness
• date unknown
• *Philippe de Rémi, French lawyer and royal official
• * Campanus of Novara, Italian astronomer and mathematician
• * Dnyaneshwar, Hindu saint and poet
• * Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji, founder of the Khalji dynasty in India
• * Tarabya of Pegu, self-proclaimed ruler
• * Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford