* Konrad of Gundelfingen ( 1288 – 1291 ) Anti-Abbot

William of Ockham (; also Occam, Hockham, or several other spellings ; c. 1288 – c. 1348 ) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher, who is believed to have been born in Ockham, a small village in Surrey.

* Charles I of Hungary ( 1288 – 1342 ) military, diplomatic and financial reformer, restoring the Kingdom of Hungary to power.

* Ivan I of Moscow ( 1288 – 1340 ) called The Moneybag, was Prince of Moscow, who made his principality most powerful state in Russia.

* May 17 – Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan ( b. 1288 )

* 1287 – June 8 – the Welsh nobleman Rhys ap Maredudd begins a revolt in Wales that lasts until January 1288.

* 1288 – June 5 – John I of Brabant defeats the duchy of Guelders in the Battle of Worringen — one of the largest battles in Europe of the Middle Ages — thus winning possession of the duchy of Limburg.

* 1288 – August 8 – Pope Nicholas IV proclaims a crusade against King Ladislaus IV of Hungary, who had lost credibility by favoring his semi-pagan Cuman subjects and in general refusing to conform to the social standards of western Europe.

* 1288 – Vietnamese general Tran Hung Dao sinks the entire fleet of an invading Yuan dynasty army by placing steel-tipped bamboo stakes in the Bạch Đằng River, near Halong Bay.

* 1288 – The Scottish Parliament creates a law allowing women to propose marriage to men during leap years ; men who refuse such proposals are required to pay a fine to the spurned bride-to-be.

* 1288 – The oldest surviving bell in the clocks atop the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome dates to 1288.

* 1288 – Ibn Nafis, Arabic scientist ( b. 1210 )

# 14v: Margrave Heinrich von Meißen ( Henry III, 1215 – 1288 )

1288 – 1348 )

* March 31 – Ivan I of Moscow ( b. 1288 )

* September 19 – Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan ( b. 1288 )

* June 8 – Rhys ap Maredudd revolts in Wales ; the revolt will not be suppressed until 1288.

* The oldest known bronze handgun in the world is dated to this year, a Chinese gun found in Acheng District that was once used to suppress the rebellion of the Christian Mongol Prince Nayan in 1287 – 1288.

* Donnchadh IV, Earl of Fife, ( 1288 – 1353 )

* Kōan ( 1278 – 1288 )

** Gersonides, French rabbi and mathematician ( b. 1288 )

Levi ben Gershon, better known by his Latinised name as Gersonides or the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG ( 1288 – 1344 ), philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, astronomer / astrologer.

Needham asserts Shen had discovered the survey device known as Jacob's staff, which was not described elsewhere until the Provençal Jewish mathematician Levi ben Gerson ( 1288 – 1344 ) wrote of it in 1321.

* Ibn Nafis, Persian anatomist ( d. 1288 )

The lordship of Ferrara was made hereditary by Obizzo II ( d. 1293 ) who was proclaimed Lord of Ferrara in 1264, Lord of Modena 1288 and Lord of Reggio 1289.

The Este family were identified as lords of Modena from 1288 ( Obizzo d ' Este ).

Upon Casimir's death 1267, the Duchy of Kujawy was divided by his sons Leszek II the Black ( d. 1288 ), Ziemomysł ( d. 1287 ) and Władysław I the Elbow-high into the two separate duchies of Inowrocław and Brześć-Kujawy.

* Elizabeth Stewart, ( c. 1248, d. before 1288 ) Married Sir William Douglas the Hardy, Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed.

* Gertrude, Duchess of Austria ( b c 1223-d. c 1288 or d. 24 April 1299 ), m. 27 June 1252 ( div 1253 )

When asked who his spiritual master was, he used to reply, ‘ I used to be the close follower of ‘ Abd al-Salam ibn Mashish, but I am no more the close follower of any human master .’ Shaykh Abul-Abbas al-Mursi ( d. 1288 ), who succeeded Shaykh ash-Shadhili as the next spiritual master of the Order, was asked about the knowledge of his spiritual master and replied, ‘ He gave me forty sciences.

# Joan ( d. October 15, 1333 ), married 1288 Enguerrand IV de Coucy ( d. 1310 ), Viscount of Meaux.

* Marguerite de Lusignan ( c. 1226 / 1228 – 1288 ), married ( 1st ) 1240 / 1241 Raymond VII of Toulouse ( 1197 – 1249 ), married ( 2nd ) c. 1246 Aimery IX de Thouars, Viscount of Thouars ( d. 1256 ), and married ( 3rd ) Geoffrey V de Chateaubriant, seigneur of Chateubriant

It was already called a civitas in a 1288 document issued by the Piast duke Henry V of Legnica, and officially received town privileges in 1333.

Chinese soldiers fighting under the Mongols appear to have used hand cannon in Manchurian battles during 1288, a date deduced from archaeological findings at battle sites.

1 / 8 share of the Stora Kopparberg mine, dated June 16, 1288.

In 1288 fire destroyed the entire settlement except for the churches, which were of brick.

The oldest surviving gun, made of bronze, has been dated to 1288 because it was discovered at a site in modern-day Acheng District, Heilongjiang, China, where the Yuan Shi records that battles were fought at that time.

By 1288 the city had secured its independence from the archbishop ( who relocated to Bonn ), and was ruled by its burghers.

Most Nichiren Schools, referring to their establishment, state the founding of their respective head or main temple for example Nichiren Shu the year 1281, Nichiren Shōshū the year 1288 and Kempon Hokke Shu the year 1384.

His son, Napoleone, became a cardinal in 1288 and remained a prominent member of the Curia until his death at Avignon in 1342.

* Isabelle ( 1288 – 1344 ), a nun at Poissy