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 topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1306 was a common year starting on Saturday ^[1] (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1306

• 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.
• May 15 - one of the first exchange contracts (cambium) to mention the city of Bruges involved two parties: Giovanni Villani, representing the Peruzzi Company, granting a loan to Tommaso Fini, representing the Gallerani Company of Siena.
• June 19 - Battle of Methven: The forces of the Earl of Pembroke defeat Bruce's Scottish rebels.

Undated

• 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).
• The Mongols raid India.

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)

Also see Category:1306 births.

Deaths

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

Also see Category:1306 deaths.

Notes

1. ^ "Calendar - Portugal - 1306" (Julian calendar), Time and Date AS / Steffen Thorsen, 2008, webpage: TimeandDate-calendar-1306-Portugal.