1284

Decades: 1230s 1240s 1250s 1260s 1270s - 1280s - 1290s 1300s 1310s 1320s 1330s

Years: 1279 1280 1281 1282 1283 - 1284 - 1285 1286 1287 1288 1289

• June 26 - According to the Brothers Grimm and older sources, in this date the Pied Piper of Hamelin visits the town of Hamelin, resulting in ca. 130 children being killed. It is not clear what really happened.
• Philip IV of France married Jeanne of Navarre, and becomes King of France.
• Charles II of Naples is captured in a naval battle off Naples.
• The city of Jönköping, Sweden, receives its charter.
• Rudolph I of Germany marries Isabella of Burgundy.
• Kiel becomes a member of the Hanseatic League.
• Hamburg is destroyed by a fire.
• The Statute of Rhuddlan is created, incorporating Wales into England.

Births

• April 25 - King Edward II of England
• Edward of Savoy

Deaths

• Alfonso X of Castile
• Sigerus of Brabant

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