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{{Year nav|1294}} {{Year in various calendars|1294}} {{Year article header|1294}} == Events == * [[July 5]] – [[Pope Celestine V]] succeeds [[Nicholas IV]] as the 192nd [[pope]]. * [[December 24]] – [[Pope Boniface VIII]] succeeds [[Pope Celestine V]] as the 193rd [[pope]] after Celestine V [[papal abdication|abdicates the papacy]] on [[December 13]], only five months after reluctantly accepting his surprise election on [[July 5]], wishing to return to his life as an [[ascetic]] [[hermit]]. * [[John Balliol]], King of [[Scotland]], decides to refuse King [[Edward I of England]]'s demands for support in a planned invasion of [[France]], and instead informs the French of Edward's plans and negotiates the [[Auld Alliance]] with France and [[Norway]]. These actions play a part in precipitating the [[Scottish Wars of Independence]], to begin in [[1296]]. * The [[Strata Florida Abbey]] is rebuilt; it had been destroyed some years earlier in King [[Edward I of England]]'s conquest of Wales. * Architect [[Arnolfo di Cambio]] designs the [[Florence|Florentine]] [[cathedral]] [[Santa Maria del Fiore]], better known smply as ''Il Duomo''. He also begins work on the [[Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze]], also in Florence. * [[England]] and [[Portugal]] enter into the first iteration of the [[Anglo-Portuguese Alliance]], the oldest alliance in the world still in force. * The death of [[Kublai Khan]] allows the four [[khanates]] of the [[Mongol Empire]] (the [[Chagatai Khanate]], the [[Golden Horde]], the [[Ilkhanate]], and the [[Yuan Dynasty]] of [[China]]) to formally become independent; they each had already been moving toward independence during Kublai's reign. == Births == * [[Charles IV of France]] (died [[1328]]) * [[Kusunoki Masashige]], Japanese samurai (died [[1336]]) == Deaths == * [[February 18]] – [[Kublai Khan]] of the Mongol Empire (born [[1215]]) * [[May 3]] – [[John I, Duke of Brabant]] * [[December 25]] – [[Mściwój II of Pomerania]] * [[Roger Bacon]], English philosopher and scientist * Emperor [[Yagbe'u