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This article is about the year 1299.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1260s 1270s 1280s – 1290s – 1300s 1310s 1320s
Years:	1296 1297 1298 – 1299 – 1300 1301 1302

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Year 1299 (MCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events[edit]

Osman I declares the independence of the Ottoman Principality.
A Mongol khan launches a campaign into India with 200,000 men, but the sultan of Delhi defeats them.

April – Scots take Stirling Castle from the English after a siege.
April 1 – Kings Towne on the River Hull (Kingston upon 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.^[1]
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.
A serious fire occurs at Westminster Palace.
Early evidence of the king of England borrowing from the Italian merchants. Edward I obtains a loan of 2,000 pollard marks from the agents of the Frescobaldi firm in London.^[2]

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

date unknown
- Alfonso IV of Aragon (d. 1366)
- Pierre Bertrand de Colombier, French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1361)
- Dmitri of Tver, Grand Prince of Vladimir (d. 1326)
- Maria of Aragon, princess of Aragon (d. 1316)
probable
- Ranulf Higdon, English chronicler (d. c. 1363)
- Malatesta II Malatesta, Italian condottiero (d. 1364)

May 17 – Daumantas of Pskov, Lithuanian prince (b. c. 1240)
July 15 – King Eric II of Norway (b. c. 1268)
November 10 – John I, Count of Holland (b. 1284)
November 13 – Oliver Sutton, Bishop of Lincoln
December 9 – Bohemond I, Archbishop of Trier
date unknown
- John Giffard, English baron (b. 1232)
- Gottfried Hagen, German chronicler (b. 1230)
- Conrad de Lichtenberg, Bishop of Strasbourg (b. 1240)
- Nogai Khan, ruler of the Golden Horde
- Zafar Khan, Indian military leader
- Yakut al-Mustasim, Turkish secretary of the last Abbasid caliph
probable – Nicholas of Autrecourt, French philosopher and theologian (d. c. 1369)

^ Cancelleri, J.-A. "Sinucello della Rocca". Dizionario biografico. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
^ Ferris, Eleanor (1902). "The Financial Relations of the Knights Templars to the English Crown". American Historical Review 8 (1).