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1296

March 30 - March 30 - Edward I stormed Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking the then Scottish border town with much bloodshed. He slaughtered almost everyone who resided there, even if they fled to the churches.

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1295

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- Mongol leader Ghazan Khan is converted to Islam, ending a line of Tantric Buddhist leaders.

- Philip IV of France and Pope Boniface VIII begin having disagreements.

- Jayavarman VIII of the Khmer Empire in Cambodia abdicates.

- Marco Polo returns to Italy from his travels to China.

- Edward I summons the Model Parliament.

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1294

John Balliol, King of Scotland, decides to refuse King Edward I of England's demands for support in a planned invasion of France, and instead informs the French of Edward's plans and negotiates the Auld Alliance with France and Norway. These actions play a part in precipitating the Scottish Wars of Independence, to begin in 1296.

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1293

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- May 20 - King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Studium General, forerunner to the modern Complutense University of Madrid.

- May 20 - An earthquake in Kamakura, Japan kills an estimated 30,000.

- December - Mamluk sultan of Egypt Khalil is assassinated by his regent Baydara, who briefly claims the sultanate before being assassinated himself by a rival political faction.

- Torkel Knutsson leads Sweden in beginning the Third Swedish Crusade against unchristianized Finnish Karelia.

- Dante Alighieri completes the book of verse La Vita Nuova.

- The Hindu Majapahit Empire of the Malay archipelago is founded by Kertarajasa, who exploits internal conflict and Mongol intervention to defeat the Singhasari kingdom and establish the empire.

- The Japanese era Shōō ends, and the Einin era begins.

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1292

November 17 - (Julian calendar) John Balliol is selected as King of Scotland from among 13 candidates by King Edward I of England; Edward then treats John as a puppet ruler and Scotland as a vassal state, eventually leading to the Wars of Scottish Independence commencing in 1296.

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1291

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- In the spring of this year, Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi set sail from Genoa with the goal of reaching India; they never return.
- May 10 - Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King Edward I of England in mediating resolution of the succession crisis created by the death of King Alexander III of Scotland five years prior.

- June 17 - Mamluk Sultan of Egypt Khalil captures Acre, thus exterminating the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem — the final Christian landholding remaining from the Crusades — and ending the Ninth Crusade and effectively all Crusades by eliminating the possibility of further attacks on the Holy Land (see Siege of Acre (1291)).

- Kaifeng is made capital of the Chinese Yuan Dynasty province of Henan.

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1290

- March 1 - The University of Coimbra is founded in Lisbon, Portugal by King Denis of Portugal; it moves to Coimbra in 1308.

- July 18 - King Edward I of England banishes all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; Jews traditionally hold that this event occurs on Tisha B'Av, a sorrowful Jewish holiday.

- August 1 - The country of Wallachia is founded (traditional date).

- December - The twelve Eleanor crosses are erected between Lincolnshire and London in England as King Edward I mourns the death of his queen consort Eleanor of Castile.

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1289

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- The 5,452 meter (17,887 feet) high volcano Popocatépetl is first ascended by members of the Tecuanipas tribe in present-day Mexico.

- April 27 - Mamluk sultan Qalawun captures the County of Tripoli (in present-day Lebanon) after a month-long siege, thus extinguishing the crusader state.

- Construction of Conwy Castle, ordered by King Edward I of England, is completed in Wales.

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1288

John I of Brabant defeats the duchy of Guelders in the Battle of Worringen — one of the largest battles in Europe of the Middle Ages — thus winning possession of the duchy of Limburg. The battle also liberates the city of Cologne from rule by the Archbishopric of Cologne; it had previously been one of the major ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire.

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1287

- The English city of Old Winchelsea on Romney Marsh is destroyed by catastrophic flooding during a severe storm; a new town of the same name is later constructed some two miles away on higher ground.

- The Altar of St. James at the Cathedral of San Zeno in Pistoia, Italy — a masterwork of the silversmithing trade containing nearly a ton of silver — is begun; it will not be completed for nearly 200 years.

- King Edward I of England arrests the heads of Jewish households, and demands their communities pay hefty ransoms for their release.

- Construction on the Cathedral of Uppsala is begun; it will not be completed until 1435.

- Third mongol Golden Horde attack against Poland

- The first appearance of Bruntal coat of arms