1300 BC & AD Timeline

1300 AD
INSTITUTIONS
• A professor of medicine, named Arnaldus de Villa Nova, distilled the first brandy at Montpellier’s medical school.
• The height of the Mali Empire is reached under King Mansa Musa in Africa.
• The city of Bilbao is founded.
• The Tuarg establish a state centered on Agadez
• Amsterdam was officially declared a city.
• Jacob Ben Machir was appointed the Dean of Montpellier’s medical school.
• Mamluks destroy Acre and end the existence of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
• Pope Clement V moves the papacy to Avignon, France.

GOVERNANCE
• The Jubilee of Pop Boniface VIII is celebrated and at this celebration Giovanni decides to write his universal history of Florence, the Cronica.
• Money from Florence, Italy became the first international currency
• Phillip IV of France begins his first attempt to annex Flanders
• Wenceslas II of Bohemia becomes King of Poland
• France and Scotland form alliance against England; Origin of the Auld Alliance.
• Edward I of England defeats Scottish army at Dunbar; Scottish king John Balliol abdicates.
• William Wallace leads uprising in Scotland; Defeats English army at Stirling Bridge.
• Edward I of England defeats William Wallace at Falkirk.
• Papal and Neapolitan armies destroyed by malaria; Truce ends the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
• Fleming militiamen defeat French army at Courtrai.
• William Wallace was executed in London.
• First recorded meeting of the French Estates-General.

COMMERCE
• Accounts of King Edward I of England include a reference to a game called creag being played at the town of Newenden in Kent. Early form of Cricket.
• Dante descended to the Inferno in The Divine Comedy

TECHNOLOGY
• Cenus in Imperial China totaled that China accommodated 60 million inhabitants at the time.
• Women’s corsets were first developed about this time.
• First prototype canon was built by the Chinese about this time.

MISC.
• Leap Year
• The Panum Crater at Mono Lake, Ca., erupted


1300 BC
INSTITUTIONS
• Pangeng moved the capital of Shang Dynasty to Yin
• Rise of Urnfield culture – the start of the late brone age in central europe. The named is derieved from cremating the dead and burying their urns in the fields.
• The palace at Pylos was built
• Approximately the end of Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, and the start of the nineteenth Dynasty

GOVERNANCE
• Adad Nirari I becomes king of Assyria
• Battle of Kadesh in Syria, Largest chariot battle fought, using approximately 5,000 – 6,000 chariots.
• The coronation of Ramses I

COMMERCE
• Tresury of Atreus, Mycenae, and Greece were built

TECHNOLOGY
• Some people of the Eastern Woodlands began building massive earthworks using mounds of stone (Poverty Point, Louisiana; earliest one) – Expansive earth shaping that expanded over 500 acres
• Around this time the Warrior Vase from Mycenae, Ancient Greece is made – Now serves as the National Archeological Museum of Athens.

Events Found On:
1. http://www.history.com/search.do?searchText=1300&targetDB=THC_WORLD_TIMELINE_v2&searchPage=1&timeZone=EST
2. http://timelines.ws/1300_1399.HTML
3. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001216.html
4. http://www.historycentral.com/dates/1200ad.html
5. http://www.timelines.ws/0C1300_500BC.HTML
6. http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/timeline/timeline.cfm?Era_id=5