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Events

• Beginning of the Renaissance.
• Abacus first used in China.
• Money from Florence, Italy becomes the first International Currency.
• Philip IV of France begins attempt to annex Flanders.
• Wenceslas II of Bohemia becomes King of Poland.
• A census in Imperial China finds that is has roughly 60 million inhabitants. (Having lost 20 millions after nearly a century of Mongolian conquest.)
• Jubilee of Pope Boniface VIII.
• The Tuareg establish a state centered on Agadez.
• 10 March - Wardrobe accounts of King Edward I of England (aka Edward Longshanks) include a reference to a game called creag being played at the town of Newenden in Kent. It is generally agreed that creag was an early form of cricket.
  See also: History of cricket to 1696.

Births

• June 1 - Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (died 1338)
• John III, Duke of Brabant (died 1355)
• Jean Buridan, French philosopher and religious skeptic (died 1358)
• Qutugtu Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire (died 1329)
• Laurence Minot, English poet (died 1352)
• Andrea Tafi, Italian artist (died 1325)
• Chihab Addine Abul-Abbas Ahmad ben Fadhl Al-Umari, Arab historian (died 1384)

Deaths

• May 2 - Blanche of Artois, regent of Navarre
• Guido Cavalcanti, Italian poet (born 1250)
• Tsar Chaka, Mongol ruler of Bulgaria
• Tran Hung Dao, Vietnamese general
• William of Nangis, French chronicler
• Munio de Zamora, General of the Dominican Order

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