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• March 30 – Capture of Berwick: King Edward I of England storms and captures Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking what is at this time a Scottish border town, with much bloodshed. He slaughters most of the residents, including those who flee to the churches.{{Cite web|url=https://www.berwickshirenews.co.uk/news/andrew-marshall-berwick-massacre-must-be-remembered-too-1-2877970|title=Andrew Marshall: Berwick Massacre must be remembered too|last=Marshall|first=Andrew|date=4 April 2013|website=The Berwickshire News|language=en|access-date=2019-02-22|archive-date=February 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223074354/https://www.berwickshirenews.co.uk/news/andrew-marshall-berwick-massacre-must-be-remembered-too-1-2877970|url-status=dead}}
• April 12 – King Mangrai the Great of Ngoenyang establishes a new capital by founding Chiangmai, and founds the Mangrai Dynasty, that will rule the Lanna Kingdom of Chiangmai from 1296 to 1578 (the 700th Anniversary Stadium will be built in remembrance of this foundation).{{Cite web|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/6003/|title=Monuments, Sites and Cultural Landscape of Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna|date=2 September 2015|website=UNESCO World Heritage Centre|language=en|access-date=2019-02-22}}
• April 27 – Battle of Dunbar: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey.{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=BTL31|desc=Battle of Dunbar I|access-date=June 19, 2020}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=czN1Upfa8PIC&q=battle+of+dunbar+1296&pg=PA28|title=The History of Dunbar: From the Earliest Records to the Present Time: with a Description of the Ancient Castles and Picturesque Scenery on the Borders of East Lothian|last=Miller|first=James|publisher=James Downie|year=1859|location=London|pages=28–30|language=en}}
• July 20 – Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji dies, and his nephew and son-in-law Ala-Ud-Din-Khalji comes to the throne of the Delhi Sultanate in Hindustan, becoming the most powerful ruler of his dynasty.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8XnaL7zPXPUC&q=Alauddin+Khilji&pg=PA43|title=History of Medieval India: From 1000 A.D. to 1707 A.D.|last=Chaurasia|first=Radhey Shyam|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distributors|year=2002|isbn=9788126901234|location=New Delhi|pages=31|language=en}}
• October 21 – The formal coronation of Alauddin Khalji as Sultan of Delhi takes place, and he takes the regnal name Muhammad Shah I.S. B. Bhattacherje, Encyclopaedia of Indian Events & Dates (Sterling Publishers, 2009) p.A34

• Boniface of Verona expels the Byzantines from their last remaining strongholds on Euboea.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hh0Bu8C66TsC&q=1296|title=The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest|last=Fine|first=John Van Antwerp|publisher=University of Michigan Press|year=2006|isbn=9780472082605|location=Ann Arbor|pages=244|language=en|orig-year=1987}}
• Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan spends a year at the court of Khmer King Indravarman III at Angkor, and pens a journal setting forth his observations.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6QPWXrCCzBIC&q=Zhou+Daguan+1296&pg=PA197|title=Transnationalism in Ancient and Medieval Societies: The Role of Cross-Border Trade and Travel|last=Howard|first=Michael C.|publisher=McFarland|year=2012|isbn=9780786490332|location=Jefferson, NC|pages=197|language=en}}
• approximate date – Tarabya, self-proclaimed king of Pegu, is defeated in single combat on war elephants by Wareru.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vmIVhKXwrFcC&q=Wareru+Tarabya+elephant&pg=PA110|title=History of Burma: From the Earliest Time to 1824 A.D., the Beginning of English Conquest|last=Harvey|first=G. E.|publisher=Asian Educational Services|year=1925|isbn=9788120613652|location=London, New York, Bombay|pages=110|language=en}}

• August 10 – "Blind" King John I of Bohemia (d. 1346){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CdUIO_fYRxQC&q=John+of+Bohemia+1296&pg=PA161|title=Constructing the Middle Ages: Historiography, Collective Memory and Nation-Building in Luxembourg|last=Péporté|first=Pit|publisher=BRILL|year=2011|isbn=9789004210677|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=161|language=en}}
• December – Marjorie Bruce, Scottish princess, only daughter of Robert I of Scotland (d. 1316){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cpyDDwAAQBAJ&q=Marjorie+Bruce+1296&pg=PT104|title=House of Dunbar, Part II: After the Fall of the Earldom of Dunbar: The Rise and Fall of a Scottish Noble Family|last=Dunbar|first=Lyle|publisher=BookBaby|year=2017|isbn=9781543917383|language=en}}
• date unknown
• Charles of Taranto (d. 1315){{Cite web|url=https://www.ourfamtree.org/descend.php/Philip-I-of-Taranto-Prince-of-Achaea/109546|title=Descendants of Philip I of Taranto, Prince of Achaea, 10 NOV 1278 - 26 DEC 1331; Outline Format|website=www.ourfamtree.org|language=en|access-date=2019-02-22}}
• Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (d. 1359){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dk4G-52QT-8C&q=Gregory+Palamas+1296&pg=PA508|title=The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature|last1=Kurian|first1=George Thomas|last2=III|first2=James D. Smith|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2010|isbn=9780810872837|volume=I|location=Lanham, Toronto, Plymouth|pages=508|language=en}}
• Roland of Sicily, Italian nobleman (d. 1361){{Cite book|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/orlando-d-aragona_(Dizionario-Biografico)/|title=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani|last=Giunta|first=Francesco|year=1961|editor-last=Ghisalberti|editor-first=Alberto M.|volume=3|location=Rome|chapter=Aragona, Orlando d'}}
• probable
• Algirdas, ruler of Lithuania (d. 1377){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VkGB1CSfIlEC&q=Algirdas+1296&pg=PA42|title=Historical Dictionary of Lithuania|last=Suziedelis|first=Saulius A.|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2011|isbn=9780810875364|edition=Second|location=Lanham, Plymouth|pages=42–43|language=en}}
• Blanche of Burgundy, queen consort of France (d. 1326){{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DsGjmShjAeEC&q=Blanche+of+Burgundy+1296&pg=PA223|title=Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe: Gender, Power, Patronage, and the Authority of Religion in Latin Christendom|last=Brown|first=Elizabeth A .R.|publisher=BRILL|year=2009|isbn=9789004171251|editor-last=Smith|editor-first=Katherine Allen|series=Studies in the History of Christian Traditions|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=223|language=en|chapter=Chapter Eleven. Blanche Of Artois And Burgundy, Château-Gaillard, And The Baron De Joursanvault|editor-last2=Wells|editor-first2=Scott}}
• Shi Naian, Chinese author (d. 1370){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pmNoS2dndKsC&q=Shi+Nai%27an+1296&pg=PA232|title=The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation|last=France|first=Peter|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2001|isbn=9780199247844|location=Oxford, New York|pages=232|language=en}}
• Tamagusuku, ruler of Chuzan{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Japan.htm|title=Japan|website=www.worldstatesmen.org|access-date=2019-02-22}}

• February 8 – King Przemysł II of Poland (b. 1257){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iLnEYpw_puIC&q=Przemys%C5%82+II+1296&pg=PA105|title='The Slippery Memory of Men': The Place of Pomerania in the Medieval Kingdom of Poland|last=Milliman|first=Paul|publisher=BRILL|year=2013|isbn=9789004182745|series=East Central and Eastern European in the Middle Ages, 450 - 1450|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=105|language=en}}
• March 11 – John le Romeyn, Archbishop of York{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2LaYN9S6q6YC&q=John+le+Romeyn+1296&pg=PA7|title=A Guide to the Archive Collections in the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research|last=Smith|first=David Michael|publisher=Borthwick Publications|year=1973|isbn=9780903857024|series=Borthwick Texts and Calendars: Records of the Northern Province|volume=I|location=York|pages=7|language=en}}
• March 24 – Odon de Pins, French Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/nobiliaireunive01pongoog|quote=Odon de Pins 1296.|title=Nobiliaire universel de France: ou Recueil général des généalogies historiques des maisons nobles de ce royaume|last=de Saint-Allais|first=M.|publisher=Au bureau du Nobiliaire universel de France, Réimprimé à la Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne|year=1874|location=Paris|pages=[https://archive.org/details/nobiliaireunive01pongoog/page/n193 177]|language=fr}}
• May – William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pFjjDQAAQBAJ&q=William+de+Valence+1296&pg=PA240|title=Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, 1307-1324: Baronial Politics in the Reign of Edward II|last=Phillips|first=J. R. S.|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1972|isbn=9780198223597|location=Oxford|pages=240|language=en}}
• May 19 – Pope Celestine V (b. 1215){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H5cQH17-HnMC&q=Pope+Celestine+V+1296&pg=PA168|title=Holy People of the World: A Cross-cultural Encyclopedia|last=Jestice|first=Phyllis G.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2004|isbn=9781576073551|volume=1|location=Santa Barbara, CA, Denver, CO, Oxford|pages=168|language=en}}
• June 5 – Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245){{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/ancientarmouran00blaigoog|quote=Edmund Crouchback 1296.|title=Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe from the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Thirteenth Century|last=Hewitt|first=John|publisher=John Henry and James Parker|year=1855|location=Oxford|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ancientarmouran00blaigoog/page/n377 347]|language=en}}
• June 27 – Floris V, Count of Holland (b. 1254){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=52PUDAAAQBAJ&q=Floris+V+1296&pg=PA188|title=Governmental Forms and Economic Development: From Medieval to Modern Times|last=Brouwer|first=Maria|publisher=Springer|year=2016|isbn=9783319420400|location=Amsterdam|pages=188|language=en}}
• August 7 – Heinrich II von Rotteneck, prince-bishop of Regensburg{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qapdkLDD2vkC&q=Heinrich+II+von+Rotteneck+1296&pg=PA344|title=Geschichte der Oberpfalz und des bayerischen Reichskreises bis zum Ausgang des 18. Jahrhunderts|last1=Spindler|first1=Max|last2=Kraus|first2=Andreas|publisher=C.H.Beck|year=1995|isbn=9783406394539|series=Handbuch der bayerischen Geschichte|volume=III|location=Munich|pages=344|language=de}}
• August 9 – Hugh, Count of Brienne, French crusader{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-WFjDwAAQBAJ&q=Hugh%2C+Count+of+Brienne+1296&pg=PR21|title=The Briennes: The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, c. 950–1356|last=Perry|first=Guy|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2018|isbn=9781107196902|location=Cambridge|pages=xxiii|language=en}}
• October 9 – Louis III, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1269){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nkwrDwAAQBAJ&q=Louis+III%2C+Duke+of+Bavaria+1296&pg=PR25|title=The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350: Essays by German Historians|last1=Loud|first1=Graham A.|last2=Schenk|first2=Jochen|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2017|isbn=9781317022008|location=London and New York|pages=xxv|language=en}}
• November 1 – Guillaume Durand, French canonist and writer{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HOJErmnEfhgC&q=Guillaume+Durand+1296&pg=PT81|title=The Court Book of Mende and the Secular Lordship of the Bishop: Recollecting the Past in Thirteenth-Century Gévaudan|last=Bulman|first=Jan K.|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=2008|isbn=9781442691971|location=Toronto, Buffalo, London|language=en}}
• December
• Isabella of Mar, Scottish countess, spouse of Robert I of Scotland{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7O8IBAAAQBAJ&q=Isabella+of+Mar+1296&pg=PA133|title=My McCurdy Family and Collateral Lines Including Native American and Some Royal Family|last=Mason|first=Laird David Elsworth|publisher=Lulu.com|year=2012|isbn=9781300356011|location=Maumee, OH|pages=133|language=en}}
• Adam de Darlington, Bishop of Caithness (approximate date){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ISUbAAAAYAAJ&q=Adam+de+Darlington+1296|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae medii aevi ad annum 1638|last=Watt|first=D. E. R.|publisher=Printed for the Scottish Record Society by Smith and Ritchie Ltd.|year=1969|location=Edinburgh|pages=275|language=en|orig-year=1959}}
• date unknown
• Philippe de Rémi, French lawyer and royal official (b. c. 1247){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r-xcAAAAMAAJ&q=Philippe+de+R%C3%A9mi+1296|title=Essays on the Poetic and Legal Writings of Philippe de Remy and His Son Philippe de Beaumanoir of Thirteenth-century France|last1=Heller|first1=Sarah-Grace|last2=Reichert|first2=Michelle|publisher=E. Mellen Press|year=2001|isbn=9780773473836|volume=21|location=Lewiston, NY|pages=279|language=en}}
• Campanus of Novara, Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. c. 1220){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bENTBQAAQBAJ&q=Campanus+of+Novara+1296&pg=PA122|title=Creators of Mathematical and Computational Sciences|last1=Agarwal|first1=Ravi P.|last2=Sen|first2=Syamal K.|publisher=Springer|year=2014|isbn=9783319108704|location=Cham, Switzerland|pages=122|language=en}}
• Dnyaneshwar, Hindu saint and poet (b. 1275){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hyqljCZkO-oC&q=Dnyaneshwar+1296&pg=PA95|title=Dabawalas: Lessons for Building Lasting Success Based on Values|last=Pandit|first=Shrinivas|publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill Education|year=2007|isbn=9780070621510|location=New Delhi|pages=97|language=en}}
• Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji, founder of the Khalji dynasty in India{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HC-zALzDp_oC&q=Jalal-ud-din+Khalji+1296&pg=PA37|title=The Pearson Concise General Knowledge Manual 2012|last1=Thorpe|first1=Edgar|last2=Thorpe|first2=Showick|publisher=Pearson Education India|year=2012|isbn=9788131761915|location=Chandigarh, Delhi, Chennai|pages=2.14|language=en|orig-year=2005}}
• Tarabya of Pegu, self-proclaimed ruler
• Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford (b. c.1240){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GgTBxtdwzk8C&q=Robert+de+Vere+1296&pg=PA117|title=The Castle Community: The Personnel of English and Welsh Castles, 1272-1422|last=Rickard|first=John|publisher=Boydell Press|year=2002|isbn=9780851159133|location=Suffolk and Rochester, NY|pages=117|language=en}}

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