Year 1284 (MCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

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By area

Africa

• Putting an end to the bedouin rebellion that had toppled his brother in 1283, Abu Hafs Umar I reconquers Tunis and re-installs the Hafsids as the dominating dynasty in Ifriqiya.^[1]
• Peter III of Aragon takes advantage of the weakness of the Hafsid dynasty and raids the island of Jerba. The Aragonese massacre the population and occupy the island.^[2]

Asia

• Mamluk sultan of Egypt Qalawun signs a 10-year truce with the Crusader city of Acre; he will violate the truce on pretexts in 1290.
• The Mongol Golden Horde, led by Nogai Khan, attacks Hungary a second time.
• The Byzantine city Tralles falls to the Turkish emirate of Menteshe. 20,000 people are led off as slaves.

Europe

• 5 June -- King Charles II of Naples is captured in the Battle of the Gulf of Naples by Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon.
• The Statute of Rhuddlan is created, formally incorporating Wales into England in the entity England and Wales.
• Battle of Meloria: The Italian city-state of Genoa defeats its rival Pisa, ending Pisa's marine power and hastening the city's decline in power.
• King Stefan Dragutin of Serbia receives Belgrade, Syrmia, and other territories from Hungary, when his son marries the king of Hungary's cousin.
• The Kingdom of Germany imposes a trade embargo on Norway, due to the latter pillaging a German ship. The embargo cuts off vital supplies of grain, flour, vegetables and beer, causing a general famine.^[3]
• The German city of Hamburg is destroyed by a fire.

By topic

Arts and culture

• Construction on the Cath drale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais is interrupted by a partial collapse of the choir; the event unnerves French masons working in the Gothic style.
• Jean de Meun translates Vegetius' 4th century military treatise De Re Militari from Latin into French.

Education

• Peterhouse, the oldest college at the University of Cambridge, is founded by Hugo de Balsham.

Health

• Completion of the al-Mansuri hospital in Cairo.^[4]

Markets

• The Republic of Venice begins coining the ducat, a gold coin that is to become the standard of European coinage for the following 600 years.

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Births

• April 25 – King Edward II of England (d. 1327)
• John I, Count of Holland (d. 1299)
• Count Edward of Savoy (d. 1329)

Deaths

• March 24 – Hugh III of Cyprus
• April 4 – King Alfonso X of Castile (b. 1221)
• August 19 – Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (b. 1273)
• Siger of Brabant, Flemish theologian
• Adelaide of Holland, regent of Holland
• Tekuder, Khan of the Mongol Ilkhanate
• H j Tokimune, regent of Japan (b. 1251)

In fiction

• June 26 – According to legend, the Pied Piper of Hamelin visits the German town of Hamelin and leads 130 children to their deaths, as told in the tales of the Brothers Grimm and many others.

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