Years 1300

Events

The West Indies

• Islam reached Sumatra. The first Moslem sovereign known in the area is the sultan Malik Al-Saleh of Pasai. Propagated by the merchants and the pirates, coming at the beginning from the south from the India and Gujarat, the new religion is spread initially slowly until the expansion of the sultanate of Malacca (Melaka), on the west coast of Malaysia, gives him its dash.
• the Javanese prince installed with Malacca as of the end of the 13th century starts by plundering the ships which go from India towards the islands of the East, then is satisfied, with the agreement of the navigators, to impose common laws to the stopover of Malacca.

Spain

• About 1300-1340, the Séfarade Ezmel d' Ablitas is the banker of the kings of Navarre and Aragon and of the bishop of Pampelune.
• the Jews of Barcelona invest in the great maritime trade (1300 - 1305).
• In the years 1300, the Jews Solomon Al-Constantini and Bonsenyor, ambassador with Alexandria is official translators in Aragon, Haïm Muddar de Murcie in Castille.

Economy & company

• Apogee of the activity of the Fairs of Champagne: supported by their situation with the meeting of the roads of Flanders and Italy, the Champagne fairs become the center of the international exchanges of products (cloths) and finance.
• Development of the low valley of the Elba, the delta of the the Vistula and the valley of Netze by German colonists.
• the royal Currency of Prague starts to strike the money sum of money (groš), used for the foreign trade. A copper currency of good qualities is useful for the current operations. The cash economy develops. The peasants cease paying their royalties in kind to discharge a silver royalty. Certain noble and the Church, with its considerable goods, grow rich. The trade develops to import cloths of Flandres and to export corn towards Austria and Bavaria.

Significant characters

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Fine 13th century: first outlines of Tuscan Accounts Department partly double in . It is diffused slowly in the Italian merchants starting from the middle of the 14th century.
• Chart pisane, first Portulan preserved, dating from the end of the 13th century. It reflects a solid knowledge of the the Mediterranean. The coasts of the Atlantique European are much fuzzier.
• a colorless factory of Verre pure appears for the first time at Murano, close to Venice.
• triennial, known rotation since the 8th century, spreads in Western Europe at the end of the 13th century.
• medieval Armor with plate.

Simple: 1300s