Events of 1298

• April 20– beginning of the Rintfleisch-Pogrom, the Jews of Röttingen burned en masse, other Jewish communites destroyed later in the year

• July – Emperor Go-Fushimi succeeds Emperor Fushimi on the throne of Japan.

• July 2 – Battle of Göllheim: Albert I of Habsburg defeats and kills Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.

• July 22 – Battle of Falkirk: King Edward I of England defeats a Scottish army led by William Wallace.

• 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 a local writer.

Undated

• The Chinese governmental minister Wang Zhen (official) invents wooden movable type printing (Bi Sheng invented ceramic movable type in the 11th century).

• 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.

Births

• December 12 – Albert II of Austria (d. 1358)

• date unknown

• *Charles, Duke of Calabria (d. 1328)

• *Elisabeth of Carinthia, queen consort of Sicily (d. after 1347)

• *Ibn Juzayy, Islamic scholar (d. 1340)

• *Sir Andrew Murray, Scottish soldier (d. 1338)

• probable – William Irvine, Scottish soldier

Deaths

• April 17 – Árni Þorláksson, Icelandic bishop (b. 1237)

• July 2 – King Adolf of Germany (b. c. 1255)

• July 22 – Sir John de Graham, Scottish soldier at the Battle of Falkirk

• July 23 – King Thoros III of Armenia (b. c. 1271)

• July 13 – Jacobus de Voragine, Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa

• July 22 – John de Graham, Scottish soldier (in battle)

• August 29 – Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar (b. 1269)

• September 11 – Philip of Artois, French soldier (b. 1269)

• September 29 – Guido I da Montefeltro, Italian military strategist (b. 1223)

• November 19 – Saint Mechtilde, Saxon saint (b. c. 1240)

• date unknown

• *Archibald, Scottish prelate

• *Auhaduddin Kermani, Sufi poet

• *Gerard of Lunel, French saint

• *William Houghton, Archbishop of Dublin

• *John of Procida, Italian physician and diplomat (b. 1210)

• *Jolenta of Poland, Hungarian princess (b. 1235)

• *Mordecai ben Hillel, German rabbi (b. c. 1250)

• *Nino Visconti, ruler of Gallula

• *Emperor Smilets of Bulgaria (b. 1292)

• probable

• *William Douglas the Hardy, Scottish warlord

• *Thomas Learmonth, Scottish minstrel