* 1304 – Ibn Battuta, Arabian explorer ( d. c. 1368 )

(, ), or simply Ibn Battuta (), also known as Shams ad-Din ( February 25, 1304 – 1368 or 1369 ), was a Berber Muslim Moroccan explorer, known for his extensive travels, accounts of which were published in the Rihla ( lit.

* 1304 – Pope Benedict XI ( b. 1240 )

Francesco Petrarca ( 20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374 ), known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet, and one of the earliest humanists.

1495-1527 ), in a work falsely attributed to Petrarch ( 1304 – 74 ), wrote in his Chronica de le Vite de Pontefici et Imperadori Romani that after Pope Joan had been revealed as a woman:

Blessed Pope Benedict XI ( 1240 – 7 July 1304 ), born Nicola Boccasini, was Pope from 22 October 1303 until his death.

* Horace Kinder Mann, The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages from 590 to 1304 ( London 1910 ) 5: 249, 250, 252 – 253, 254, 256, 259 – 260, 276.

The famous illuminated manuscript – described as " the most beautifully illumined German manuscript in centuries ;" – was commissioned by the Manesse family of Zurich, copied and illustrated in the city at some time between 1304 and 1340.

* Ibn Battuta, Berber Muslim traveler ( 1304 – 1368 / 1377 )

* Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet and writer ( 1304 – 1374 ).

1304 – 1321 ) in a World Heritage Site, Quinta da Regaleira, immersed in Templar, Rosicrucian and Masonic tradition.

* July 19 – Petrarch, Italian poet ( b. 1304 )

* June 14 – Günther von Schwarzburg, German king ( b. 1304 )

* October 7 – Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormonde ( b. 1304 )

* date unknown – Ibn Battuta, Moroccan explorer ( b. 1304 )

* March 26 – Marie de Luxembourg, Queen of France ( b. 1304 ) ( carriage accident )

* November 5 – Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler ( d. 1304 )

* June 28 – Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan ( d. 1304 )

* John II Comyn and John III Comyn — Guardians ( 1298 – 1301, 1304 )

* John de Soulis — Guardian ( 1301 – 1304 )

1251 / 53, Rheinfelden – 23 December 1304, Munich ), married 1273 in Aachen to Louis II, Duke of Bavaria and became mother of Rudolf I, Count Palatine of the Rhine and Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor.

His military career can be traced back as far as 1304 when he took part in a campaign in the Scottish Wars.

Prominent among them is Sir William Oliphant, the resolute Governor of Stirling Castle when in 1304 it held out longer than any other against Edward I of England, during the Wars of Scottish Independence.

4 March 1304 ), 6th Lord of Annandale ( dominus vallis Anandie ), jure uxoris Earl of Carrick ( 1271 – 1292 ), Lord of Hartness, Writtle and Hatfield Broad Oak ( Wretele et Hatfeud Regis ), was a cross-border lord, and participant of the Second Barons ' War, Welsh Wars, and First War of Scottish Independence.

The First War of Scottish Independence can be loosely divided into four phases: the initial English invasion and success in 1296 ; the campaigns led by William Wallace, Andrew de Moray and various Scottish Guardians from 1297 until John Comyn negotiated for the general Scottish submission in February 1304 ; the renewed campaigns led by Robert the Bruce following his killing of The Red Comyn in Dumfries in 1306 to his and the Scottish victory at Bannockburn in 1314 ; and a final phase of Scottish diplomatic initiatives and military campaigns in Scotland, Ireland and Northern England from 1314 until the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton in 1328.

After another campaign in 1303 / 1304, Stirling Castle, the last major Scottish held stronghold, fell to the English, and in February 1304, negotiations led to most of the remaining nobles paying homage to Edward and to the Scots all but surrendering.

Meantime, while Robert Bruce outwardly maintained his loyalty to Edward, he was secretly advancing his own ambition and, while assisting Edward in the settlement of the Scottish government, on 11 June 1304, with both of them having witnessed the efforts of their countrymen at Stirling, Bruce and William Lamberton made a pact that bound them, each to the other, in " friendship and alliance against all men.

* Fall of Stirling Castle, 1304

The most famous historical account of trebuchet use dates back to the siege of Stirling Castle in 1304, when the army of Edward I constructed a giant trebuchet known as “ Warwolf ”, which then proceeded to “ level a section of wall, successfully concluding the siege .”

On 11 June 1304, with both of them having witnessed the heroic efforts of their countrymen during King Edward's siege of Stirling Castle, Bruce and William Lamberton made a pact that bound them, each to the other, in “ friendship and alliance against all men .” If one should break the secret pact, he would forfeit to the other the sum of ten thousand pounds.

By 1304, most of the other nobles of the country had also pledged their allegiance to Edward, and this year the English also managed to re-take Stirling Castle.

There were also several Sieges of Stirling Castle in the conflict, notably in 1304.

He also worked at Stirling ( during the 1304 siege ).

He was present at the Siege of Stirling in 1304, serving under Edward, the Prince of Wales.

Another grandchild of the original Alan de la Zouche, Joyce la Zouche, married Robert Mortimer of Richard's Castle ; one of their younger sons, William la Zouche, took the name of la Zouche and bought Ashby-de-la-Zouch from Alan in 1304, the latter to hold it until his death ( 1314 ).

* Alexander De Forbes, ( d. 1303, Loch Ness, Scotland ), governor of Urquhart Castle in Moray, defended it 1304 against Edward I

He was made Constable of Rochester Castle for life in 1303 / 1304, of Dover Castle, of Tonbridge Castle in 1324 and of Canterbury, all in Kent.

William de Clinton, 1st Earl of Huntingdon ( 1304 – 1354 ) and Lord High Admiral, was the younger son of John de Clinton, 1st Baron Clinton ( d. 1312 / 13 ) of Maxstoke Castle, Warwickshire, and Ida De Odingsells, who was a great-great-granddaughter of Henry II.

File: Szydlow 20060619 1304 1. jpg | The Cracow Gate in Szydłów, part of the city walls established by the King

In the summer of 1304, King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia arrived to Hungary in order to help his son to strengthen his rule in the kingdom.

On the death of King Valdemar's descendant Eric VI of Denmark in 1319, Christopher II of Denmark attempted to seize the Duchy of Schleswig, the heir of which Duke Valdemar V ( as of 1325 ) was a minor ; but Valdemar's guardian and uncle, Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg ( 1304 – 1340 ), surnamed the Great and a notable warrior, drove back the Danes and, Christopher having been expelled, succeeded in procuring the election of Duke Valdemar to the Danish throne ( as Valdemar III as of 1326 ), while Gerhard himself obtained the Duchy of Schleswig.

In 1304, a weekly market and annual fair for Kirkcaldy was proposed by the Abbot of Dunfermline to King Edward I, during a period of English rule in Scotland from 1296 to 1306.

1304 ), daughter of King Béla IV of Hungary.

King Wenceslaus could not strengthen his rule against his opponent and he had to leave the kingdom ( August 1304 ).

Although he did not join to King Charles ' partisans, but his troops took part in the campaign King Charles and Duke Rudolph lead against the Kingdom of Bohemia ( September – October 1304 ).

King Philip le Bel in War-dress, on the Occasion of his entering Paris in 1304, after having conquered the Communes of Flanders .-- Equestrian Statue placed in Notre Dame, Paris, and destroyed in 1772 .-- Fac-simile of a Woodcut from Thevet's " Cosmographie Universelle ," 1575.

The Reichsadler from the coat of arms of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor | Henry VI dated 1304, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Germany.

Gukjagam was renamed Sungkyunkwan in June 1304, and then relocated to the old site of Seongmun-gwan in 1367 during the reign of King Gongmin near the end of the Goryeo Dynasty.

Infanta Maria of Portugal ( Coimbra, 21 November 1264 – Coimbra, 6 June 1304 ; ) was a Portuguese infanta ( princess ) daughter of King Afonso III of Portugal and his second wife Beatrice of Castile

In 1300 Richeza was married to a widower, King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia ( 1271 – 1305, reigned in Bohemia from 1278 and in parts of Poland from 1304 ), who wanted to use her succession rights in order to gain Poland.

King Birger, who feared his brothers ' plans, forced them to sign a paper, in 1304, so as to render them less dangerous.