Year 1298 (MCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1298 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1298
MCCXCVIII
Ab urbe condita2051
Armenian calendar747
ԹՎ ՉԽԷ
Assyrian calendar6048
Balinese saka calendar1219–1220
Bengali calendar705
Berber calendar2248
English Regnal year26 Edw. 1 – 27 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar1842
Burmese calendar660
Byzantine calendar6806–6807
Chinese calendar丁酉年 (Fire Rooster)
3995 or 3788
    — to —
戊戌年 (Earth Dog)
3996 or 3789
Coptic calendar1014–1015
Discordian calendar2464
Ethiopian calendar1290–1291
Hebrew calendar5058–5059
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1354–1355
 - Shaka Samvat1219–1220
 - Kali Yuga4398–4399
Holocene calendar11298
Igbo calendar298–299
Iranian calendar676–677
Islamic calendar697–698
Japanese calendarEinin 6
(永仁6年)
Javanese calendar1209–1210
Julian calendar1298
MCCXCVIII
Korean calendar3631
Minguo calendar614 before ROC
民前614年
Nanakshahi calendar−170
Thai solar calendar1840–1841
Tibetan calendar阴火鸡年
(female Fire-Rooster)
1424 or 1043 or 271
    — to —
阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
1425 or 1044 or 272
The English cavalry under Antony Bek charges the Scottish forces at Falkirk.

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  • Summer – King Edward I (Longshanks) marches from Newcastle with his household to Alnwick and then by way of Chillingham to Roxburgh, where he joins the army in July. He proceeds to Lauderdale and encamps at Kirkliston, to the west of Edinburgh, where he remains from July 15 to July 20. The army is accompanied by a long train of supply wagons. Meanwhile, English supply ships, delayed by bad weather, bring food to Leith.[6]
  • July 22Battle of Falkirk: English forces (some 15,000 men) led by Edward I (Longshanks) defeat a Scottish army led by William Wallace at Falkirk. During the battle, the English knights drive off the Scottish horse and archers, but cannot break the pikemen in the center. The Scottish pikemen are formed in four great "hedgehogs" (known as schiltron) but are destroyed by English longbow archers.[3]

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  • The foreign creditors of the Sienese Gran Tavola Bank start demanding their deposits back, thus accelerating the liquidity crisis faced by the firm.[9]

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  2. ^ Wyatt, Walter James (1876). The history of Prussia: from the earliest times to the present day, pp. 327–329. Vol 1. London: Longmans, Green and co. OCLC 1599888.
  3. ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  4. ^ Nicol, Donald M. (1988). Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-34157-4.
  5. ^ Chamberlin E. R. (1969). The Bad Popes, pp. 102–104. Chapter III: "The Lord of Europe". ISBN 0-88029-116-8.
  6. ^ Armstrong, Pete (2003). Osprey: Stirling Bridge & Falkirk 1297–98, pp. 62–63. ISBN 1-84176-510-4.
  7. ^ Banarsi Prasad Saksena (1992). "The Khalijs: Alauddin Khalij", p. 332. In Mohammad Habib and Khaliq Ahmad Nizami (ed.). A Comprehensive History of India: The Delhi Sultanat (A.D. 1206–1526). Vol. 5 (Second ed.). The Indian History Congress/People's Publishing House. OCLC 31870180.
  8. ^ "Marciac - John Reps Bastides Collection". bastides.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  9. ^ Catoni, Giuliano. "BONSIGNORI". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Retrieved December 20, 2011.