1296

Events

• 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.
• April 27 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
• 'Ala al-Din Khalji succeeds to the Delhi Sultanate, as a member of the Khilji dynasty .

Births

• Gregory Palamas

Deaths

• May 19 - Pope Celestine V
• June 5 - Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster (b. 1245)