1306

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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.

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Events

  • March 25Robert 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
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Births

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

Deaths

  • February 10John "the Red" Comyn, Scottish nobleman
  • March 21Robert 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)
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