1306

1306 (MCCCVI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1306th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 306th year of the 2nd millennium, the 6th year of the 14th century, and the 7th year of the 1300s decade. As of the start of 1306, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1270s  1280s  1290s  – 1300s –  1310s  1320s  1330s
Years:	1303 1304 1305 – 1306 – 1307 1308 1309

1306 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1306 MCCCVI
Ab urbe condita	2059
Armenian calendar	755 ԹՎ ՉԾԵ
Assyrian calendar	6056
Balinese saka calendar	1227–1228
Bengali calendar	713
Berber calendar	2256
English Regnal year	34 Edw. 1 – 35 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1850
Burmese calendar	668
Byzantine calendar	6814–6815
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4002 or 3942     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4003 or 3943
Coptic calendar	1022–1023
Discordian calendar	2472
Ethiopian calendar	1298–1299
Hebrew calendar	5066–5067
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1362–1363
- Shaka Samvat	1227–1228
- Kali Yuga	4406–4407
Holocene calendar	11306
Igbo calendar	306–307
Iranian calendar	684–685
Islamic calendar	705–706
Japanese calendar	Kagen 4 / Tokuji 1 (徳治元年)
Javanese calendar	1217–1218
Julian calendar	1306 MCCCVI
Korean calendar	3639
Minguo calendar	606 before ROC 民前606年
Nanakshahi calendar	−162
Thai solar calendar	1848–1849
Tibetan calendar	阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1432 or 1051 or 279     — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1433 or 1052 or 280

Events

• March 25 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.
• May – Hugh the younger Despenser, favourite of King Edward II of England, is married to heiress Eleanor de Clare.
• June 19 – Forces of Earl of Pembroke defeat Bruce's Scottish rebels at the Battle of Methven
• Philip IV of France exiles all the Jews from France and confiscates their property
• In London, a city ordinance decrees that heating with coal is forbidden when parliament is in session – the ordinance is not particularly effective

Births

• Ashikaga Tadayoshi, general of the Northern and Southern Courts(d. 1352)
• Sasaki Takauji, Japanese poet, warrior, and bureaucrat (d. 1373)
• August 8 – Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria (d.1353)

Deaths

• February 10 – John "the Red" Comyn, Scottish nobleman
• March 21 – Robert II, Duke of Burgundy (born 1248)
• August 4 – King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (born 1289)
• Robert de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh
• Roger de Flor, German soldier
• Richard of Middleton, Norman theologian and philosopher of the Franciscan Order (born 1249)
• Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk (born 1270)