1308

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1280s 1290s 1300s 1310s 1320s
Years:	1305 1306 1307 1308 1309 1310 1311

1308 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1308 MCCCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2061
Armenian calendar	757 ԹՎ ՉԾԷ
Assyrian calendar	6058
Balinese saka calendar	1229–1230
Bengali calendar	715
Berber calendar	2258
English Regnal year	1 Edw. 2 – 2 Edw. 2
Buddhist calendar	1852
Burmese calendar	670
Byzantine calendar	6816–6817
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4005 or 3798     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4006 or 3799
Coptic calendar	1024–1025
Discordian calendar	2474
Ethiopian calendar	1300–1301
Hebrew calendar	5068–5069
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1364–1365
- Shaka Samvat	1229–1230
- Kali Yuga	4408–4409
Holocene calendar	11308
Igbo calendar	308–309
Iranian calendar	686–687
Islamic calendar	707–708
Japanese calendar	Tokuji 3 / Enkyō 1 (延慶元年)
Javanese calendar	1219–1220
Julian calendar	1308 MCCCVIII
Korean calendar	3641
Minguo calendar	604 before ROC 民前604年
Nanakshahi calendar	−160
Thai solar calendar	1850–1851
Tibetan calendar	阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1434 or 1053 or 281     — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1435 or 1054 or 282

Year 1308 (MCCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 25 – King Edward II of England marries Isabella of France. They are both crowned a month later (on February 25).
• March 8 – Póvoa de Varzim (then Varazim), Portugal gains a foral from Denis of Portugal.
• April 15 – Abu Hammu I ascends to the throne of the Kingdom of Tlemcen after the death of his brother Abu-I Zayyan.
• November 27 – Henry VII, King of Germany, is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
• December 28 – Emperor Hanazono ascends to the throne of Japan.

Date unknown

• The Capet-Anjou family begins to rule Hungary.
• The Sultanate of Rûm ends.
• King Philip IV of France purchases the Hôtel de Nesle, and builds one of the earliest indoor tennis courts there.
• approx. date – Dante Alighieri begins to write the Divine Comedy.

Births

• July 26 – Stefan Dušan, Emperor of the Serbs (d. 1355)
• date unknown
  • Longchenpa, Tibetan Buddhist teacher (d. 1363)
  • Laura de Noves, French countess (d. 1348)
  • Prince Moriyoshi, Japanese shōgun (d. 1335)

Deaths

• March 18 – Yuri I of Galicia
• April 5 – Ivan Kőszegi, Hungarian baron
• May 1 – Albert I of Germany, Duke of Austria (murdered) (b. 1255)
• September 4 – Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of Sicily (b. 1250)
• September 10 – Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)
• October 10 – Patrick Dunbar, 8th Earl of Dunbar
• November 8 – Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher
• December 21 – Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (b. 1244)
• date unknown
  • Vakhtang III of Georgia (b. 1276)
  • Andrea Morisco, Genoese pirate