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1295 (MCCXCV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1295th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 295th year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th year of the 13th century, and the 6th year of the 1290s decade. As of the start of 1295, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

• Mongol leader Ghazan Khan is converted to Islam, ending a line of Tantric Buddhist leaders.
• Philip IV of France and Pope Boniface VIII begin having disagreements.
• Jayavarman VIII of the Khmer Empire in Cambodia abdicates.
• Marco Polo returns to Italy from his travels to China.
• Edward I summons the Model Parliament.

• September 16 – Elizabeth de Clare, English noblewoman (died 1360)
• John IV, Duke of Brittany (died 1345)
• Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (died 1350)
• Reginald de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham (died 1361)
• Joanna of Flanders, military leader in the Breton War of Succession (approximate date; died 1374)
• Nicephorus Gregoras, Byzantine historian (approximate date; died 1360)
• Al-Nasr Muhammad, sultan of Egypt (died 1341)
• Saint Roch (approximate date; died 1327)

• April 25 – King Sancho IV of Castile (born 1257)
• August 12 – Charles Martel d'Anjou (born 1271)
• December 7 – Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1243)
• December 21 – Marguerite Berenger of Provence, queen of Louis IX of France (born c. 1221)
• Meinhard II of Gorizia-Tyrol (born 1238)