1309

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

1309 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1309 MCCCIX
Ab urbe condita	2062
Armenian calendar	758 ԹՎ ՉԾԸ
Assyrian calendar	6059
Balinese saka calendar	1230–1231
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 (Earth Monkey) 4006 or 3799     — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 4007 or 3800
Coptic calendar	1025–1026
Discordian calendar	2475
Ethiopian calendar	1301–1302
Hebrew calendar	5069–5070
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1365–1366
- Shaka Samvat	1230–1231
- Kali Yuga	4409–4410
Holocene calendar	11309
Igbo calendar	309–310
Iranian calendar	687–688
Islamic calendar	708–709
Japanese calendar	Enkyō 2 (延慶２年)
Javanese calendar	1220–1221
Julian calendar	1309 MCCCIX
Korean calendar	3642
Minguo calendar	603 before ROC 民前603年
Nanakshahi calendar	−159
Thai solar calendar	1851–1852
Tibetan calendar	阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1435 or 1054 or 282     — to — 阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 1436 or 1055 or 283

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

Events

• March 9 – Pope Clement V settles the papal seat in Avignon, following a visit.
• March 14 – An angry mob overruns the palaces in the Muslim Emirate of Granada; Sultan Muhammad III is spared but his vizier, Abu Abdallah ibn al-Hakim, is killed .
• August 11 – Reconquista: Aragonese forces led by King James II land on the coast of Almería, beginning the Siege of Almería.
• 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.
• September 12 – Ferdinand IV of Castile captures the town of Gibraltar, in his campaign against the Emirate of Granada.
• December – The Siege of Almería is withdrawn leaving the Emirate of Granada in possession of the city.
• Date unknown
  • The village of Lukáčovce in Slovakia first appears in the historical record.
  • Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, in the Kingdom of England is bought by the House of Percy, later Earls of Northumberland.

Births

• Konrad of Megenberg (d. 1374)
• Aldona of Lithuania, queen consort of Poland (d. 1339)
• Leo IV, King of Armenia (d. 1341)

Deaths

• April 10 – Elisabeth von Rapperswil, Swiss sovereign countess of Rapperswil (b. 1261)
• May 5 – Charles II of Naples
• James of St. George, Savoyard military architect (b. 1230)
• Raden Wijaya, Founder and First King of Majapahit Empire