1294

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1270s 1280s 1290s 1300s 1310s
Years:	1291 1292 1293 1294 1295 1296 1297

1294 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1294 MCCXCIV
Ab urbe condita	2047
Armenian calendar	743 ԹՎ ՉԽԳ
Assyrian calendar	6044
Balinese saka calendar	1215–1216
Bengali calendar	701
Berber calendar	2244
English Regnal year	22 Edw. 1 – 23 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1838
Burmese calendar	656
Byzantine calendar	6802–6803
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3991 or 3784     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3992 or 3785
Coptic calendar	1010–1011
Discordian calendar	2460
Ethiopian calendar	1286–1287
Hebrew calendar	5054–5055
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1350–1351
- Shaka Samvat	1215–1216
- Kali Yuga	4394–4395
Holocene calendar	11294
Igbo calendar	294–295
Iranian calendar	672–673
Islamic calendar	693–694
Japanese calendar	Einin 2 (永仁２年)
Javanese calendar	1204–1206
Julian calendar	1294 MCCXCIV
Korean calendar	3627
Minguo calendar	618 before ROC 民前618年
Nanakshahi calendar	−174
Thai solar calendar	1836–1837
Tibetan calendar	阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 1420 or 1039 or 267     — to — 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1421 or 1040 or 268

Year 1294 (MCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

Asia

• February 18 – Kublai Khan dies; by this time the separation of the four khanates of the Mongol Empire (the Chagatai Khanate in Central Asia, the Golden Horde in Russia, the Ilkhanate in Persia, and the Yuan Dynasty in China) has deepened.^[1]

Europe

• March 30 – A Novgorodian army led by Prince Roman Glebovich attempts a storm of Vyborg, but the attack fails.^[2]
• Spring – Following the arrival of a fleet from Sweden, an offensive takes place in which Sweden captures Kexholm after an assault.^[2]
• July 5 – Following the Papal election, 1292–94, Pope Celestine V succeeds Nicholas IV, becoming the 192nd pope.^[3]
• Autumn – In response to the actions of new royal administrators in north and west Wales, Madog ap Llywelyn leads a revolt against his English overlords.^[4]
• December 24 – Pope Boniface VIII succeeds Pope Celestine V, becoming the 193rd pope, after Celestine V abdicates the papacy on December 13, only five months after reluctantly accepting his surprise election on July 5, wishing to return to his life as an ascetic hermit.^[5]
• John Balliol, King of Scotland, decides to refuse King Edward I of England's demands for support in a planned invasion of France, the result being the negotiation of the Auld Alliance with France and Norway in the following year. These actions play a part in precipitating the Scottish Wars of Independence, which begin in 1296.^[6][7]
• Strata Florida Abbey is rebuilt; it had been destroyed some years earlier, during King Edward I of England's conquest of Wales.^[8]
• Architect Arnolfo di Cambio designs Florence Cathedral (Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, better known simply as Il Duomo); he also begins work on the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence.^[9][10]
• England and Portugal enter into the first iteration of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, the oldest alliance in the world still in force.^[11]
• Edward I of England and Philip the Fair of France declare war on each other. To finance this war, both kings lay taxes on the clergy. Pope Boniface VIII insists that kings gain papal consent for taxation of the clergy, and forbids churchmen to pay taxes.^[12]

Births

• June 18 or June 19 – Charles IV of France (d. 1328)^[13]
• John, Duke of Durazzo (d. 1336)^[14]
• date unknown – Kusunoki Masashige, Japanese samurai (d. 1336)^[15]
  • Joan of Valois, Countess of Hainaut (d. 1342)^[16]

Deaths

Kublai Khan

• February 18 – Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (b. 1215)^[17]
• May 3 – John I, Duke of Brabant^[18]
• June 12 – John I of Brienne, Count of Eu^[19]
• December 25 – Mestwin II, Duke of Pomerania^[20]
• date unknown
  • Emperor Yagbe'u Seyon of Ethiopia^[21]
  • Brunetto Latini, Florentine philosopher (b. c. 1220)^[22]
  • Dmitri of Pereslavl, Grand Duke of Vladimir-Suzdal^[23]

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