1302
Year 1302 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.Events
January–December
- April 10 - First meeting of the Estates General of the Kingdom of France, convened by Philip IV of France, at the Notre-Dame in Paris.
- May 18 - Bruges Matins: The French garrison in Bruges is massacred at night, by members of the local Flemish militia.
- June 12 - Rakvere, Estonia, receives Lübeck city rights.
- July 11 - Battle of the Golden Spurs : the County of Flanders gains a major victory over the Kingdom of France.
- July 27 - Battle of Bapheus: The Ottoman Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire, heralding the Turkish conquest of Bithynia.
- September 24 - Treaty of Caltabellotta: Charles II of Naples makes peace with Frederick III of Sicily, ending the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
- September 26 - Fall of Ruad: The last Crusader stronghold in the Levant is conquered.
- October 4 - A peace treaty between the Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Venice ends the Byzantine–Venetian War.
- November 18 - Boniface VIII publishes the Papal bull Unam Sanctam.
Date unknown
- Roger de Flor founds the Catalan Company, with soldiers jobless after the Treaty of Caltabellotta.
- Castile occupies the harbor of Algiers.
- Jičín, Bohemia is chartered as a city.
- Pope Boniface VIII suppresses the Franciscans.
- The Estates General of France meets for the first time.
- Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence by the Black Guelphs, as is Petrarch's father.
- Robert the Bruce, king of Scotland, reconciles with Edward I of England.
- Philip IV of France confiscates Jewish property.
- The Confucian Temple is erected in Beijing.
Births
- December 7 - Azzone Visconti, Lord of Milan
- date unknown
- * Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Islamic scholar
- * Andrew Corsini, Italian bishop
- * Domhnall II, Earl of Mar
Deaths
- January 19 - Al-Hakim I, Caliph of Cairo
- March 9 or March 9 1301 - Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Arundel
- March 20 - Ralph Walpole, Bishop of Norwich
- May 2 - Blanche of Artois, dowager, former queen consort and regent of Navarre
- July 11 - Pierre Flotte, French politician and lawyer
- September 18 - Eudokia Palaiologina, Empress of Trebizond
- November 17 or November 17 1301 - St. Gertrude the Great, German saint
- December 26 - Valdemar, King of Sweden, 1250-1275
- December 31 - Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine
- date unknown
- * Godfrey Giffard, English bishop and politician
- * Hu Sanxing, Song dynasty Chinese historian
- probable
- * Cimabue, Florentine painter who discovered Giotto
- * Infanta Sancha of Portugal