1315

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1290s 1300s 1310s 1320s 1330s
Years:	1312 1313 1314 1315 1316 1317 1318

1315 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1315 MCCCXV
Ab urbe condita	2068
Armenian calendar	764 ԹՎ ՉԿԴ
Assyrian calendar	6065
Balinese saka calendar	1236–1237
Bengali calendar	722
Berber calendar	2265
English Regnal year	8 Edw. 2 – 9 Edw. 2
Buddhist calendar	1859
Burmese calendar	677
Byzantine calendar	6823–6824
Chinese calendar	甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4012 or 3805     — to — 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 4013 or 3806
Coptic calendar	1031–1032
Discordian calendar	2481
Ethiopian calendar	1307–1308
Hebrew calendar	5075–5076
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1371–1372
- Shaka Samvat	1236–1237
- Kali Yuga	4415–4416
Holocene calendar	11315
Igbo calendar	315–316
Iranian calendar	693–694
Islamic calendar	714–715
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 4 (正和４年)
Javanese calendar	1226–1227
Julian calendar	1315 MCCCXV
Korean calendar	3648
Minguo calendar	597 before ROC 民前597年
Nanakshahi calendar	−153
Thai solar calendar	1857–1858
Tibetan calendar	阳木虎年 (male Wood-Tiger) 1441 or 1060 or 288     — to — 阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 1442 or 1061 or 289

Year 1315 (MCCCXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• May 9 – Eudes IV succeeds Hugh V as Duke of Burgundy.
• August – Louis X is crowned King of France at Reims.
• August 13 – Louis X of France marries Clemence d'Anjou.
• August 29 – Battle of Montecatini: Pisa defeats the forces of Florence and Naples.
• September – Battle of Moiry Pass (Bruce campaign in Ireland): Edward Bruce (brother of the King of Scotland), with a Scots-Irish army, defeats a garrison of Hiberno-Norman troops of the Lordship of Ireland at Armagh, as part of his attempt to revive the High Kingship of Ireland.
• October 25 – Banastre Rebellion: Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw attack Liverpool Castle.
• November 15 – Battle of Morgarten: The Swiss defeat Leopold of Austria on the shore of the Ägerisee, ensuring independence for the Swiss Confederation.

Date unknown

• Louis X of France abolishes slavery within the Kingdom of France.
• Hōjō Mototoki becomes Kamakura shōgun of Japan.
• John XIII Glykys becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
• Flushing, Netherlands is granted city rights.
• Witzlaw III, prince of Rügen, builds Hejehdbhdd castle at Barth.
• Emir Ismael Abu-I-Walid orders the Jews of Granada to don the yellow badge.
• Dassel, Germany is granted city rights.
• The Kos Fortress is erected by the Knights Hospitallers in Greece.
• The Arsenian schism ends.
• History of Sudan (Coming of Islam to the Turkiyah): A Muslim prince of Nubian royal blood ascends the throne of Dongola as king.
• Estimation: Cairo, capital of Mamluk Egypt becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Hangzhou in Mongolian China.
• The Borough of Liverpool, along with Liverpool Castle, is granted to Robert de Holland.
• The Great Famine of 1315–1317 begins.

Births

• April 5 – James III of Majorca (d. 1349)
• May 20 – Bonne of Luxembourg, Queen of John II of France (d. 1349)

Deaths

• February or March – Margaret of Villehardouin, Lady of Akova (b. 1266)
• March 10 – Agnes Blannbekin, Austrian Beguine mystic
• May 9 – Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
• June 29 – Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
• August 12 – Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick, English nobleman
• August 15 or April 30 – Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of France (b. 1290)
• August 29
  • Charles of Taranto (b. 1296)
  • Peter Tempesta, Count of Eboli (b. 1291)