Editing 1299 (section)

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==== Cities and towns ====
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[Kingston upon Hull]] is granted city status in England by [[royal charter]] of Edward I.

==== Literature ====
* Approximate date &ndash; [[Rustichello da Pisa]] completes taking down ''[[The Travels of Marco Polo]]'' from Marco while they are both imprisoned in [[Genoa]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Hoffman|first= Donald L.|editor-last=Lacy|editor-first=Norris J.|editor-link= Norris J. Lacy|encyclopedia=The New Arthurian Encyclopedia|title=Rusticiano da Pisa|year=1991|publisher=Garland|location=New York|isbn=0-8240-4377-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/newarthurianency00lacy/page/392 392]|url=https://archive.org/details/newarthurianency00lacy/page/392}}</ref>

==== Markets ====
* King [[Edward I of England]] is recorded as borrowing from Italian merchants. He obtains a loan of 2,000 pollard marks, from agents of the [[Frescobaldi]] Firm in [[London]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Ferris|first=Eleanor|title=The Financial Relations of the Knights Templars to the English Crown|journal=American Historical Review|year=1902|volume=8|issue=1|pages=1–17 |doi=10.2307/1832571|jstor=1832571}}</ref>

==== Religion ====
* [[June 27]] &ndash; [[Pope Boniface VIII]] issues the papal bull "Scimus, Fili" condemning Edward I of England's invasion and occupation of [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Michael|last=Brown|title=The Wars of Scotland 1214–1371|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=0748612378|year=2004|pages=192, 280}}</ref>

==== Science and technology ====
* The [[spinning wheel]] is now in widespread use in [[Kingdom of England|England]] for manufacturing woolen yarn.<ref>Williams, Hywel (2005). ''Cassell's Chronology of World History'', p. 152. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. {{ISBN|0-304-35730-8}}.</ref></onlyinclude>