1298

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Asia

• August 28 - Emperor Go-Fushimi succeeds Emperor Fushimi on the throne of Japan.
• John Tarchaneiotes is appointed governor of the southern portions of Byzantine Anatolia.

  Europe

• April 20 - Rintfleisch-Pogrom: The Jews of Röttingen are burned en masse; other Jewish communities are destroyed later in the year.
• June 1 - Battle of Turaida: Residents of Riga and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the Livonian Order.
• July 2 - Battle of Göllheim: Albert I of Habsburg defeats and kills Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
• July 22 - Edward I of England defeats a Scottish army led by William Wallace in the Battle of Falkirk.
• August 1 - The "ideal city" of Marciac, Gascogne, France is founded by King Philip IV of France and Guichard de Marzé.
• September 9 - Battle of Curzola: The Genoese fleet defeats the Venetians. Marco Polo is one of the prisoners taken, and while in prison in Genoa, he begins dictating his Travels to Rustichello da Pisa.
• After a year's siege, the revolting commune of Palestrina near Rome surrenders, and is razed to the ground and salted by order of Pope Boniface VIII, in an act of debellatio.

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Markets

• The foreign creditors of the Sienese Gran Tavola Bank start demanding their deposits back, thus accelerating the liquidity crisis faced by the firm.

  Religion

• Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, and Pope Gregory I are named the first Doctors of the Church. They are known collectively as the Great Doctors of the Western Church.

  Technology

• The Chinese governmental minister Wang Zhen invents a wooden movable type printing.