1284

Year 1284 (MCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1260s 1270s 1280s 1290s 1300s
Years:	1281 1282 1283 1284 1285 1286 1287

1284 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1284 MCCLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2037
Armenian calendar	733 ԹՎ ՉԼԳ
Assyrian calendar	6034
Balinese saka calendar	1205–1206
Bengali calendar	691
Berber calendar	2234
English Regnal year	12 Edw. 1 – 13 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1828
Burmese calendar	646
Byzantine calendar	6792–6793
Chinese calendar	癸未年 (Water Goat) 3980 or 3920     — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3981 or 3921
Coptic calendar	1000–1001
Discordian calendar	2450
Ethiopian calendar	1276–1277
Hebrew calendar	5044–5045
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1340–1341
- Shaka Samvat	1205–1206
- Kali Yuga	4384–4385
Holocene calendar	11284
Igbo calendar	284–285
Iranian calendar	662–663
Islamic calendar	682–683
Japanese calendar	Kōan 7 (弘安７年)
Javanese calendar	1194–1195
Julian calendar	1284 MCCLXXXIV
Korean calendar	3617
Minguo calendar	628 before ROC 民前628年
Nanakshahi calendar	−184
Thai solar calendar	1826–1827
Tibetan calendar	阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 1410 or 1029 or 257     — to — 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 1411 or 1030 or 258

Events

Africa

• Putting an end to the Bedouin rebellion that had toppled his brother in 1283, Abu Hafs Umar I reconquers Tunis, and reinstalls the Hafsids as the dominating dynasty in Ifriqiya.[1]
• Peter III of Aragon takes advantage of the weakness of the Hafsid Dynasty, and raids the island of Jerba. The Aragonese massacre the population, and occupy the island.[1]

Asia

• Mamluk sultan of Egypt Al Mansur Qalawun signs a ten-year truce with the Crusader city of Acre; he will violate the truce on various pretexts in 1290.
• The Byzantine city Tralles falls to the Turkish emirate of Menteşe; 20,000 people are led off as slaves.

Europe

• March 3 – The Statute of Rhuddlan extends English law to Wales.[2]
• June 5 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: King Charles II of Naples is captured by Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon.
• May 18 – Jönköping in Sweden is granted town privileges.[3]
• August 5–6 – Battle of Meloria: The Italian city-state of Genoa defeats its rival Pisa at sea, ending Pisa's marine power and hastening the city's decline in power.
• September 9 – German warlord Trunda makes a campaign to Karelia to tax Karelians but is defeated by Novgorod and the men from Staraya Ladoga.[4]
• King Stefan Dragutin of Serbia receives Belgrade, Syrmia, and other territories from Hungary, when his son marries the king of Hungary's cousin.
• The Kingdom of Germany imposes a trade embargo on Norway, due to the latter pillaging a German ship. The embargo cuts off vital supplies of grain, flour, vegetables and beer, causing a general famine.[5]
• The German city of Hamburg is destroyed by a fire.
• The events giving rise to the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin take place in Lower Saxony.[6]

Arts and culture

• Construction of Beauvais Cathedral is interrupted by a partial collapse of the choir; the event unnerves French masons working in the Gothic style.
• Jean de Meun translates Vegetius' 4th century military treatise De Re Militari from Latin into French.

Education

• Peterhouse, the oldest collegiate foundation of the University of Cambridge in England, is established by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely.

Health

• The al-Mansuri bimaristan (hospital) is completed in Cairo.[7]

Markets

• The Republic of Venice begins coining the ducat, a gold coin that is to become the standard of European coinage, for the following 600 years.

Births

• April 25 – King Edward II of England (d. 1327)[8]
• April 26 – Alice de Toeni, Countess of Warwick (d. 1324)
• date unknown
  • John I, Count of Holland (d. 1299)
  • Edward, Count of Savoy (d. 1329)

Deaths

• March 24 – Hugh III of Cyprus (b. 1235)
• April – Adelaide of Holland, regent of Holland (b. c.1230)
• April 4 – King Alfonso X of Castile (b. 1221)
• April 20 – Hōjō Tokimune, regent of Japan (b. 1251)
• August 10 – Tekuder, Khan of the Mongol Ilkhanate (executed)
• August 19 – Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (b. 1273)
• December – Irene Komnene Palaiologina (Eulogia), member of the Byzantine imperial family and nun (b. c.1218)

References

1. Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte. pp. 161–3. ISBN 978-2-7071-5231-2.
2. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 148–150. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
3. "Årtal och händelser i Jönköping" (in Swedish). Jönköpings historia. Retrieved February 12, 2011.
4. Linna, Martti, ed. (1989). Suomen varhaiskeskiajan lähteitä. Historian aitta. p. 138. ISBN 951-96006-1-2.
5. "Lecture on Economics in 1284". Stanford University. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011.
6. according to the earliest written record, of 1384, in the city records of Hamelin. Harty, Sheila (1994). "Pied Piper Revisited". In Bridges, David; McLaughlin, Terence H. (eds.). Education And The Market Place. Routledge. p. 89. ISBN 0-7507-0348-2.
7. "Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts _ Hospitals". Retrieved November 8, 2011.
8. "Edward II of England: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk. Retrieved March 21, 2019.