1309

This article is about the year 1309.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1270s  1280s  1290s  – 1300s –  1310s  1320s  1330s
Years:	1306 1307 1308 – 1309 – 1310 1311 1312

1309 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1309 in poetry

1309 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1309 MCCCIX
Ab urbe condita	2062
Armenian calendar	758 ԹՎ ՉԾԸ
Assyrian calendar	6059
Bahá'í calendar	-535–-534
Bengali calendar	716
Berber calendar	2259
English Regnal year	2 Edw. 2 – 3 Edw. 2
Buddhist calendar	1853
Burmese calendar	671
Byzantine calendar	6817–6818
Chinese calendar	戊申年閏十一月十九日 (3945/4005-intercalary 11-19) — to — 己酉年十一月廿九日 (3946/4006-11-29)
Coptic calendar	1025–1026
Ethiopian calendar	1301–1302
Hebrew calendar	5069–5070
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1365–1366
- Shaka Samvat	1231–1232
- Kali Yuga	4410–4411
Holocene calendar	11309
Iranian calendar	687–688
Islamic calendar	708–709
Japanese calendar
Julian calendar	1309    MCCCIX
Korean calendar	3642
Minguo calendar	603 before ROC 民前603年
Thai solar calendar	1852

Year 1309 (MCCCIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• March 9 – Pope Clement V settles the papal seat in Avignon, following a visit.
• August 15 – The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island, and rename themselves as the Knights of Rhodes.

Date unknown

• The first historical records or village Lukáčovce, Slovakia.
• Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, is bought by the Percy family, later Earls of Northumberland.

Births

• date unknown – Leo IV, King of Armenia (d. 1341)

Deaths

• May 5 – Charles II of Naples
• date unknown – James of St. George, Savoyard military architect (b. 1230)