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Data for the 1300s

1300Aztecs In the year 1300, money from Florence in Italy becomes the world’s first international currency, Amsterdam is officially declared a city, census in Imperial China reveals that it has around 60 million inhabitants, Aztec culture starts in Mesoamerica around this time - and all these fine people were born:

1300-xxxx Jeanne de Clisson* Breton privateer - Belleville-sur-Vie, France (1359)

1301-0723 Otto, Duke of Austria* and Styria - Vienna, Austria (1339/37)
In the year 1302, Rakvere in Estonia receives Lübeck city rights (Jun 12), the Ottoman Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire (Jul 27), Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence by the Black Guelphs.

1302-0222 Gegeen Khan* an emperor of the Yuan dynasty of China (1323/21)

1302-1207 Azzone Visconti* lord of Milan/considered the founder of the state of Milan - Ferrara, Italy (1339/36)

1303 Individual post

1304-xxxx Marie of Luxembourg* Queen of France - Luxembourg (1324)
1304-0225 Ibn Battuta* scholar/explorer - Tangier, Marinid Morocco (1369/ca 65)

1305-xxxx Philip IV of France accuses the Knights Templar of heresy
1305-xxxx Isabella of Aragon* queen consort of Germany (1330)

1306-xxxx Sasaki Takauji*佐々木 高氏 poet/warrior/bureaucrat -  Japan (1373/)

1307-xxxx William II* - Count of Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland (1345/ca38)

1308-xxxx Prince Moriyoshi*護良親王  shogun/monk - Japan (1335/ca27)

1309-xxxx Conrad of Megenberg* Catholic scholar/writer - Bavaria (1374)

PS. The dates of birth of the above people are in many cases uncertain, and denoted here by all those xs.

Updated 18.9.2022
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