Year 1296 (MCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
Date unknown
Births
Deaths
- February 8 – King PrzemysÃ
 II of Poland (b. 1257)
- March 11 – John le Romeyn, Archbishop of York
- March 24 – Odon de Pins, French Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
- May – William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke
- May 17 – Agnes of Bohemia, Duchess of Austria (b. 1269)
- May 19 – Pope Celestine V (b. 1215)
- June 5 – Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)
- June 27 – Floris V, Count of Holland (b. 1254)
- August 7 – Heinrich II von Rotteneck, prince-bishop of Regensburg
- August 9 – Hugh, Count of Brienne, French crusader
- October 9 – Louis III, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1269)
- November 1 – Guillaume Durand, French canonist and writer
- December
- Isabella of Mar, Scottish countess, spouse of Robert I of Scotland
- Adam de Darlington, Bishop of Caithness (approximate date)
- date unknown
- Philippe de Rémi, French lawyer and royal official (b. c. 1247)
- Campanus of Novara, Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. c. 1220)
- Dnyaneshwar, Hindu saint and poet (b. 1275)
- Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji, founder of the Khalji dynasty in India
- Tarabya of Pegu, self-proclaimed ruler
- Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford (b. c.1240)
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