1299

By place

Asia

• February 24 - Alauddin Khalji, sultan of Delhi, sends his generals Ulugh Khan and Nusrat Khan to conquer Gujarat.
• May 10 - Kyawswa of Pagan and Crown Prince Theingapati are executed at Myinsaing, by the three brothers of the Myinsaing Kingdom, as traitors for submitting to the Mongol Empire.
• July 27 - Osman I declares his Anatolian beylik to be independent of the Seljuq Dynasty Sultanate of Rum, originating the Ottoman Empire, with Söğüt as the original capital, which will last until the 1920s.
• A Mongol khan launches a campaign into India with 200,000 men, but Alauddin Khalji, sultan of Delhi, defeats them.
• The Kingdom of Singapura is founded by Sang Nila Utama, a Srivijaya prince.

  Europe

• April - The Scots take Stirling Castle from the English, after a siege.
• April 1 - Kings Towne on the River Hull is granted city status, by Royal Charter of King Edward I of England.
• July 31 - Pisa and Genoa agree to a thirty-year truce. Part of the treaty includes the end of the Pisan support to Genoa's enemies, in particular Sinucello della Rocca in Corsica.
• November 1 - Håkon V Magnusson becomes king of Norway.
• December 1 - Battle of Falconaria: Frederick II of Sicily defeats Philip I of Taranto.
• The House of Holland becomes extinct. The County of Holland becomes part of a personal union with the County of Hainaut.
• Early evidence is uncovered of the king of England borrowing from the Italian merchants. Edward I obtains a loan of 2,000 pollard marks, from agents of the Frescobaldi Firm in London.

  By topic

Markets

• The city of Florence bans the use of Arabic numerals for commerce, allowing only Roman numerals.

  Births

• date unknown
• * Alfonso IV of Aragon
• * Pierre Bertrand de Colombier, French cardinal and diplomat
• * Dmitri of Tver, Grand Prince of Vladimir
• * Maria of Aragon, princess of Aragon
• probable
• * Ranulf Higdon, English chronicler
• * Malatesta II Malatesta, Italian condottiero
• * Nicholas of Autrecourt, French philosopher and theologian

  Deaths

• May 10
• * Kyawswa of Pagan, deposed ruler of the Pagan Kingdom
• * Theingapati, heir to the Pagan Kingdom
• May 17 - Daumantas of Pskov, Lithuanian prince
• July 15 - King Eric II of Norway
• August 1 - Conrad de Lichtenberg, Bishop of Strasbourg
• November 10 - John I, Count of Holland
• November 13 - Oliver Sutton, Bishop of Lincoln
• December 9 - Bohemond I, Archbishop of Trier
• December 31 - Margaret, Countess of Anjou
• date unknown
• * John Giffard, English baron
• * Gottfried Hagen, German chronicler
• * Nogai Khan, ruler of the Golden Horde
• * Zafar Khan, Indian military leader
• * Yakut al-Mustasim, Turkish secretary of the last Abbasid caliph