1306
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This article is about the year 1306.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1270s 1280s 1290s – 1300s – 1310s 1320s 1330s |
| Years: | 1303 1304 1305 – 1306 – 1307 1308 1309 |
| 1306 by topic | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
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| 1306 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1306 MCCCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2059 |
| Armenian calendar | 755 ԹՎ ՉԾԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6056 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -538–-537 |
| Bengali calendar | 713 |
| Berber calendar | 2256 |
| English Regnal year | 34 Edw. 1 – 35 Edw. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1850 |
| Burmese calendar | 668 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6814–6815 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年十二月十六日 (3942/4002-12-16) — to —
丙午年十一月廿五日(3943/4003-11-25) |
| Coptic calendar | 1022–1023 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1298–1299 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5066–5067 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1362–1363 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1228–1229 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4407–4408 |
| Holocene calendar | 11306 |
| Iranian calendar | 684–685 |
| Islamic calendar | 705–706 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3639 |
| Minguo calendar | 606 before ROC 民前606年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1849 |
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Year 1306 (MCCCVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–December
- February 10 – before the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murdered John Comyn, his leading political rival sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence
- March 25 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of the Scots only five weeks after the murder in Dumfries.
- May – Hugh the younger Despenser, favourite of King Edward II of England, is married to heiress Eleanor de Clare.
- May 15 – one of the first exchange contracts (cambium) to mention the city of Bruges involved two parties: Giovanni Villani, representing the Peruzzi Company, granting a loan to Tommaso Fini, representing the Gallerani Company of Siena.
- June 19 – Battle of Methven: The forces of the Earl of Pembroke defeat Bruce's Scottish rebels.
[edit] Date unknown
- Philip IV of France exiles all the Jews from France and confiscates their property.[1]
- In London, a city ordinance decrees that heating with coal is forbidden when parliament is in session (the ordinance is not particularly effective).
- The Mongols raid India.
[edit] Births
- August 8 – Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1353)
- Ashikaga Tadayoshi, general of the Northern and Southern Courts (d. 1352)
- Sasaki Takauji, Japanese poet, warrior, and bureaucrat (d. 1373)
[edit] Deaths
- February 10 – John "the Red" Comyn, Scottish nobleman
- March 21 – Robert II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1248)
- August 4 – King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)
- Robert de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh
- Roger de Flor, German soldier
- Richard of Middleton, Norman theologian and philosopher of the Franciscan Order (b. 1249)
- Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk (b. 1270)
[edit] References
- ^ Nirenberg, David (1998). Communities of violence: persecution of minorities in the Middle Ages. Princeton: Princeton University Press. p. 18. ISBN 069105889X.
