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England's Edward II journeys to France and on January 25 marries Isabella, 15, daughter of Philippe IV, while his court favorite Piers Gaveston rules as regent at home. Gaveston marries the king's niece Margaret of Gloucester and receives the earldom of Cornwall.
France steps up her attack on the Knights Templar with an appeal to the Estates-General. Pope Clement V is obliged to cooperate, and torture is used to force confessions that will result in the abolishment of the order in 1312.
The Teutonic Knights seize the city of Gdansk at the mouth of the Vistula River on the Baltic Sea, massacre its inhabitants, and will hold it until 1466. Losing Gdansk cuts the reunited Polish kingdom off from the Baltic and strips it also of eastern Pomerania and Silesian Wroclaw, a developed province with some 20,000 inhabitants.
Albrecht I of Austria refuses demands by his nephew Johann, 18, for Johann's hereditary domains and is murdered at Brugg, Switzerland, May 1 by conspirators organized by Johann (the Parricide), who flees to the south (he will be arrested at Pisa in 1312 and executed the following year). Now 58, Albrecht has been German king since 1298 and is succeeded by the count of Luxembourg, 39, who is elected king November 27. He will be crowned emperor in 1311 and reign until 1313 as Heinrich VII. Albrecht's handsome son Friedrich, 22, becomes head of the house of Hapsburg and duke of Austria (see 1309).
Delhi's second Khalji sultan Ala-ud-Din (Juna Khan) sends his lieutenant Malik Kafur south on a plundering expedition that will soon lead to the capture of Warangal (see 1303; 1311).
Franciscan realist philosopher and scholastic theologian John Duns Scotus dies at Cologne November 8 at age 42 (approximate), having maintained that theology is a practical science of God and that man's ultimate goal is union with the divine Trinity through love. His 23-year-old student François de Meyronnes will carry on the Scotsman's teachings of the Immaculate Conception (that Jesus of Nazareth's mother, Mary, was conceived without original sin), that will is superior to intellect and love of knowledge (philosophy), that heaven consists in essence of beatific love rather than a vision of God, and that the Incarnation is not dependent on the fact that man has sinned.
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This article is about the year 1308.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1270s 1280s 1290s – 1300s – 1310s 1320s 1330s |
| Years: | 1305 1306 1307 – 1308 – 1309 1310 1311 |
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| 1308 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1308 MCCCVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2061 |
| Armenian calendar | 757 ԹՎ ՉԾԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6058 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -536–-535 |
| 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 | 丁未年十二月初七日 (3944/4004-12-7) — to —
戊申年閏十一月十八日(3945/4005-intercalary 11-18) |
| Coptic calendar | 1024–1025 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1300–1301 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5068–5069 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1364–1365 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1230–1231 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4409–4410 |
| Holocene calendar | 11308 |
| Iranian calendar | 686–687 |
| Islamic calendar | 707–708 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Julian calendar | 1308 MCCCVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3641 |
| Minguo calendar | 604 before ROC 民前604年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1851 |
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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.
- November 27 – Henry VII 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.
- Sultanate of Rûm ends.
- approx. date – Dante Alighieri begins to write the Divine Comedy.
Births
- date unknown
- Longchenpa, Buddhist teacher (d. 1363)
- Prince Morinaga, Japanese shogun (d. 1335)
Deaths
- May 1 – Albert I of Germany, Duke of Austria (murdered) (b. 1255)
- September 10 – Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)
- November 8 – Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher
- December 21 – Henry I of Hesse (b. 1244)
- date unknown
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