- December 13 - Pope Celestine V Abdicates The Papacy , only five months after reluctantly accepting his surprise election on July 7 , wishing to return to his life as an Ascetic Hermit . On December 24 , Pope Boniface VIII is elected to replace him.
- John Balliol , King of Scotland , decides to refuse King Edward I Of England 's demands for support in a planned invasion of France , and instead informs the French of Edward's plans and negotiates the Auld Alliance with France and Norway . These actions play a part in precipitating the Scottish Wars Of Independence , to begin in 1296 .
- The Strata Florida Abbey is rebuilt; it had been destroyed some years earlier in King Edward I Of England 's conquest of Wales.
- Architect Arnolfo Di Cambio designs the Florentine Cathedral Santa Maria Del Fiore , better known smply as ''Il Duomo''. He also begins work on the Basilica Di Santa Croce Di Firenze , also in Florence.
- England and Portugal enter into the first iteration of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance , the oldest alliance in the world still in force.
- The death of Kublai Khan allows the four Khanates of the Mongol Empire (the Chagatai Khanate , the Golden Horde , the Ilkhanate , and the Yuan Dynasty of China ) to formally become independent; they each had already been moving toward independence during Kublai's reign.
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