Events
Europe
★
Pope Martin IV succeeds
Pope Nicholas III as the 189th
pope.
★
Pope Martin IV authorizes a
Crusade against the newly re-established
Byzantine Empire in
Constantinople;
French and
Venetian expeditions set out toward Constantinople but are forced to turn back in the following year.
Middle East
★
October 29 -
Mamluk sultan
Qalawun defeats an invasion of
Syria by
Mongol Ilkhan Abaqa Khan at the
2nd Battle of Homs.
★
Osman I, founder of the
Ottoman Empire, becomes ''
bey'' of the
Sögüt tribe in central
Anatolia; in
1299 he will declare independence from the
Seljuk Turks, marking the birth of the Ottoman Empire.
★ An offensive by the
Byzantine Empire significantly reduces the size of the
Kingdom of Albania, as it recaptures land seized from the
Despotate of Epirus by
Charles I of Sicily ten years earlier.
Asia
★
August 12 - The second
Mongol invasion of Japan is foiled at the
Battle of KÅan (or Battle of Hakata Bay) as a large
typhoon — famously called a ''
kamikaze'', or divine wind — destroys much of the combined
Chinese and
Korean fleet and forces, numbering over 140,000 men and 4,000 ships.
★
Kublai Khan orders the burning of sacred
Taoist texts, resulting in the reduction in number of volumes of the
Dao Zheng (Taoist Canon) from 4,565 to 1,120.
★ The
Mon kingdom of
Haripunchai falls as its capital
Lamphun (in present-day
Thailand) is captured by King
Mengrai's
Lannathai kingdom.
Births
★
Richard De Bury, English statesman (died
1345)
★
Castruccio Castracani, duke of
Lucca (died
1328)
★
Yuri III Danilovich, Grand Prince of Russia (died
1325)
★
Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (died
1345)
★
Hamdollah Mostowfi, Ilkhanid Iranian historian (died
1349)
★
Rudolph I of Bohemia (died
1307)
Deaths
★
ErtuÄŸrul, father of
Osman I (born
1198)
★
Traidenis,
Grand Prince of
Lithuania
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