1302

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Year 1302 (MCCCII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• May 18 – Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia
• June 12 – Rakvere, Estonia, receives Lübeck city rights.
• July 11 – Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch): Flanders gains a major victory over the French.
• July 27 – The Ottoman Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Bapheus, heralding the Turkish conquest of Bithynia.
• September 24 – Charles II of Naples makes peace with Frederick III of Sicily under the Treaty of Caltabellotta, ending the War of the Sicilian Vespers.^[1]
• September 26 – The Fall of Ruad, the last Crusader stronghold in the Levant.
• October 4 – A peace treaty between the Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Venice ends the Byzantine–Venetian War (1296–1302).
• November 18 – Boniface VIII publishes the Papal bull Unam Sanctam.

Date unknown

• Roger de Flor founds the Catalan Company, with soldiers (Almogavars) jobless after the Treaty of Caltabellotta.
• Castile occupies the harbor of Algiers.
• Jičín, Bohemia is chartered as a city.
• Pope Boniface VIII suppresses the Franciscans.
• The Estates General of France meets for the first time.
• Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence by the Black Guelphs, as is Petrarch's father (see Guelphs and Ghibellines).
• Robert the Bruce, king of Scotland, reconciles with Edward I of England.
• Philip IV of France confiscates Jewish property.
• Confucian Temple erected in Beijing.

Births

• December 7 – Azzone Visconti, Lord of Milan (d. 1339)
• date unknown
  • Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Islamic scholar (d. 1367)
  • Andrew Corsini, Italian bishop (d. 1373)
  • Domhnall II, Earl of Mar (d. 1332)

Deaths

• January 19 – Al-Hakim I, Caliph of Cairo
• March 9 – Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Arundel (b. 1267)
• March 20 – Ralph Walpole, Bishop of Norwich
• May 2 – Blanche of Artois, dowager, former queen consort and regent of Navarre (b. c. 1248)
• July 11 – Pierre Flotte, French politician and lawyer
• September 18 – Eudokia Palaiologina, Empress of Trebizond (b. c. 1265)
• November 17 – St. Gertrude the Great
• December 26 – Valdemar, King of Sweden, 1250–1275 (b. c. 1238/1239)
• December 31 – Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1238)
• date unknown
  • Godfrey Giffard, English bishop and politician (b. c. 1235)
  • Hu Sanxing, a Song dynasty Chinese historian (b. 1230)
• probable
  • Cimabue, Florentine painter who discovered Giotto
  • Infanta Sancha of Portugal (b. 1264)

References