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    1308!

    The Capet-Anjou family begins to rule Hungary.

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    1307 - All Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into "admitting" heresy.

    Now that was an interesting year
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    1306 - Mar 25th - Robert the Bruce crowned king of Scotland

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    June 5 – Pope Clement V, formerly the Archbishop of Bordeaux Bertrand de Got, succeeds Pope Benedict XI as the 195th pope.

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    1304 - The peace treaty signed between the khanates of the Mongol Empire. The end of the civil war of the Mongols.
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    One of the seven wonders of the world, the Lighthouse of Alexandria is destroyed by an earthquake.
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    1302 - Boniface VIII publishes the Papal bull Unam Sanctam - a firm statement of papal supremacy.
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    January 14 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Arpad dynasty in Hungary.

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    1300 - Accounts from England include a reference to a game called creag being played (generally agreed that creag was an early form of cricket)
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    1299 - Jan I, count of Holland/Zeeland (1295-99), dies at 15
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    1298

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

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    1297 - Sep 11th - Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel Wm Wallace beats English
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    1296 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
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    1295 - let's have a look at what happened then...

    Oh! That's a nice one, certainly in view of the one above!

    23rd October: The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance was signed between Scotland and France in Paris against England .
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    July 5 – Pope Celestine V succeeds Nicholas IV as the 192nd pope.

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