1310s

1310s: events by year

Contents: 1310 1311 1312 1313 1314 1315 1316 1317 1318 1319

1310

January–December

• May 11 – In France, 54 members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake for heresy.

Date unknown

• Abu al-Fida becomes governor of Hama.
• The first purpose-built accommodation for students (the Mob Quad) is completed in Merton College, Oxford, England.
• Basarab I, after the battle against the Tatars, is named "big prince" of Wallachia by the feudal lords of the region. The country remains under Hungarian domination until the Battle of Posada on 12 October, 1330.

1311

January–December

• March 15 – Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens.

Date unknown

• A committee of 21 English barons draw up a series of ordinances, which substitute ordainers for the King (Edward II) as the effective government of the country.
• Bolingbroke Castle passes to the House of Lancaster.

1312

January–December

• April – Pope Clement V forcibly disbands the Knights Templar. Some argue^[1] that this date is the basis for the stigma surrounding the "Friday the 13th".
• June 29 – Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned in the Lateran Palace due to St Peter's Basilica being occupied by Romans hostile to him.
• October 31 – Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor is forced to abandon his campaign against Florence.

Date unknown

• A battle is fought near Thebes.
• The Siege of Rostock begins.
• Lancelotto Malocello, a Genoese navigator, sails to the island of Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands, and remains there for almost two decades.
• Mansa Musa starts to rule the Mali Empire (approximate date).

1313

January–December

• November 9 – Battle of Gamelsdorf: Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria.

Date unknown

• The Siege of Rostock ends.
• Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia founds the Banjska monastery.
• Wang Zhen, Chinese agronomist, government official, and inventor of wooden-based movable type printing, publishes the Nong Shu (Book of Agriculture).

1314

January–December

• March 18 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
• June 24 – Battle of Bannockburn: Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce defeat Edward II of England, regaining Scotland's independence.
• August 31 – King Håkon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo, where he builds Akershus Fortress. Norway is ruled from this fortress the next 500 years.
• October – Louis IV elected Holy Roman Emperor.

Date unknown

• The Hereford Mappa Mundi (Map of the World) is made. It shows Jerusalem at the centre, as decreed in the Bible.
• Exeter College, Oxford is founded by Walter de Stapledon.
• Amda Seyon starts to rule. He defeats the Muslims at Ifat.

1315

January–December

• May 9 – Eudes IV succeeds Hugh V as Duke of Burgundy.
• August – Louis X is crowned King of France at Reims.
• August 13 – Louis X of France marries Clemence d'Anjou.
• October 25 – Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw attack Liverpool Castle.
• November 15 – Battle of Morgarten: The Swiss defeat Leopold of Austria, ensuring independence for the Swiss Confederation.

Date unknown

• Hōjō Mototoki becomes Kamakura shogun of Japan.
• John XIII Glykys becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
• Flushing is granted city rights.
• Witzlaw III, prince of Rügen, builds a castle at Barth.
• Emir Ismael Abu-I-Walid orders the Jews of Granada, Spain to don the yellow badge.
• Dassel of Germany is granted city rights.
• The Kos Fortress is erected in Greece.
• The Arsenian schism ends.
• A Muslim prince of Nubian royal blood ascends the throne of Dongola as king (History of Sudan (Coming of Islam to the Turkiyah)).
• Estimation: Cairo, capital of Mamluk Egypt becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Hangzhou in Mongolian China.
• The Borough of Liverpool, along with Liverpool Castle, is granted to Robert de Holland.
• The Great Famine of 1315-1317 begins.

1316

January–December

• January 28 – The revolt of Llywelyn Bren breaks out in Wales.
• July 5 – Battle of Manolada between the Burgundian and Majorcan claimants of the Principality of Achaea.
• August 7 – Pope John XXII succeeds Pope Clement V as the 196th pope.
• August 10 – Second Battle of Athenry ends with over 5,000 dead, and Norman rule retained in Ireland.

Date unknown

• The Great Famine of 1315-1317 is at its peak.
• The Pound sterling experiences the greatest year of inflation in its history, at 100.04 percent, losing over half its value.^[2]
• Au peninsula in Switzerland is first mentioned as "Owe" belonging to the commandry of the Knights Hospitaller in Bubikon.

1317

Date unknown

• The Great Famine of 1315-1317 comes to an end.
• Pope John XXII erects the dioceses of Luçon, Maillezais, and Tulle.

1318

January–December

• March – King Birger of Sweden is deposed and is forced to flee to Denmark. (alternative date is April)
• April 1 – Berwick-upon-Tweed is retaken by the Scottish from the English.
• April – The inhabitants of Benevento, Italy rise against the pope and demand some political autonomy. The rebellion is crushed by William of Frejus and the archbishop of Naples.^[3]
• May 11 – Battle of Dysert O'Dea: The Irish armies of Conor O'Dea defeat the Normans under Richard de Clare.
• June 27 – Mats Kettilmundsson is appointed regent (rikshövitsman) of Sweden, in the absence of a Swedish king.

Date unknown

• Emperor Go-Daigo succeeds Emperor Hanazono on the throne of Japan.
• Pope John XXII declares the doctrines of the Franciscans advocating ecclesiastical poverty erroneous.
• Disease hits cattle and sheep, reducing the herds and flocks in Europe.
• Qala'un Mosque, Cairo, Egypt is founded by Al-Nasr Muhammad.

1319

January–December

• May 8 – Upon the death of his maternal grandfather, King Haakon V, three-year-old Magnus Eriksson becomes King of Norway.
• July 8 – Three-year-old Magnus Eriksson is elected king of Sweden, thus uniting it with Norway. His mother Ingeborg of Norway is given a place in the regency in both Sweden and Norway.

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