1311

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1290s 1300s 1310s 1320s 1330s
Years:	1308 1309 1310 1311 1312 1313 1314

1311 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1311 MCCCXI
Ab urbe condita	2064
Armenian calendar	760 ԹՎ ՉԿ
Assyrian calendar	6061
Balinese saka calendar	1232–1233
Bengali calendar	718
Berber calendar	2261
English Regnal year	4 Edw. 2 – 5 Edw. 2
Buddhist calendar	1855
Burmese calendar	673
Byzantine calendar	6819–6820
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4008 or 3801     — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4009 or 3802
Coptic calendar	1027–1028
Discordian calendar	2477
Ethiopian calendar	1303–1304
Hebrew calendar	5071–5072
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1367–1368
- Shaka Samvat	1232–1233
- Kali Yuga	4411–4412
Holocene calendar	11311
Igbo calendar	311–312
Iranian calendar	689–690
Islamic calendar	710–711
Japanese calendar	Enkyō 4 / Ōchō 1 (応長元年)
Javanese calendar	1222–1223
Julian calendar	1311 MCCCXI
Korean calendar	3644
Minguo calendar	601 before ROC 民前601年
Nanakshahi calendar	−157
Thai solar calendar	1853–1854
Tibetan calendar	阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 1437 or 1056 or 284     — to — 阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 1438 or 1057 or 285

Year 1311 (MCCCXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 6 – Henry VII is crowned King of Italy in Milan, and on February 12 crushes a local rebellion.
• March 15 – Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V, Count of Brienne and his forces, to take control of the Duchy of Athens.
• April 7 – Battle of Wopławki: The Teutonic Knights defeat the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
• August 16 – The Parliament of England presents the Ordinances of 1311 to King Edward II (document dated 5 October; published on 11 October); these substitute the 21 Lord Ordainers for the King as the effective government of the country.
• October 16 – The Council of Vienne begins.

Date unknown

• Bolingbroke Castle passes to the House of Lancaster.
• Lincoln Cathedral in England is completed; with the spire reaching around 525 feet (160 m), it becomes the world's tallest structure (surpassing the Great Pyramid of Giza, which held the record for almost 4,000 years), a record it holds until the spire is blown down in 1549.

Births

• January 28 or 1312 – Joan II of Navarre, queen regnant of Navarre (d. 1349)
• June 24 or 1314 – Philippa of Hainault, queen of Edward III of England (d. 1369)
• August 13 – King Alfonso XI of Castile (d. 1350)
• July 1 – Liu Bowen, Chinese military strategist, officer, statesman and poet (d. 1375)
• date unknown
  • Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1356)
  • Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut (d. 1356)

Deaths

• January 27 – Külüg Khan, Emperor Wuzong of Yuan
• March 3 – Antony Bek, bishop of Durham
• March 15 – at the Battle of Halmyros:
  • Walter V, Count of Brienne, Duke of Athens
  • Thomas III d'Autremencourt, Lord of Salona, Marshal of Achaea
  • Albert Pallavicini, Margrave of Bodonitza
  • George I Ghisi, Triarch of Euboea, Baron of Chalandritsa, Lord of Tinos, Mykonos, Serifos and Keos
• May 29 – James II of Majorca (b. 1243)
• August 13 – Pietro Gradenigo, Doge of Venice
• September 5 – Amadeus Aba, Hungarian oligarch
• December 14 – Margaret of Brabant, German queen consort (b. 1276)
• date unknown
  • David VIII of Georgia (b. 1273)
  • Arnold of Villanova, Spanish alchemist and physician (b. 1235)
• probable – Bernard Saisset, Occitan bishop of Pamiers (b. 1232)