1306

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
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  • 1303
  • 1304
  • 1305
  • 1306
  • 1307
  • 1308
  • 1309
Death of John Comyn III by Robert the Bruce at Greyfriars Church (Dumfries).

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

1306 in various
Minguo calendar
606 before ROC
民前606年
Nanakshahi calendar−162
Thai solar calendar1848–1849
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

January – March

  • January 3 – Deshou Khan, the only son of Chinese Emperor Chengzong of the Yuan dynasty (Temür Khan) dies, leaving the Mongol Emperor without an heir.
  • January 27 – The University of Orléans is created by a papal bull issued by Pope Clement V endowing the Orléans institutes in France with the title and privileges of a university.
  • Ibn Taymiyyah is found innocent of charges of heresy by the Indian Qur'an scholar Safi al-Din al-Hindi. Taymiyyah is found guilty three months later by a panel of judges in the Mamluk state and imprisoned for four months.[1]
  • February 10Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn III, Scottish nobleman and political rival, before the high altar of the Greyfriars Church at Dumfries. Bruce and Comyn meet to discuss their differences at the church (without their swords). An argument between the two ensues, and Bruce draws his dagger in anger and stabs Comyn. He flees the church, telling his followers outside what has occurred. Roger de Kirkpatrick, cousin of Bruce, goes back inside and finishes off the seriously wounded Comyn. In response, Bruce is excommunicated by Pope Clement V.[2][3]
  • March 21 – In France, Hugh V, at the age of 11, becomes the new Duke of Burgundy upon the death of his father, Robert II.[4]
  • John de Baliol of his crown as King of Scots.[5]

April – June

  • April 26 – French knight Amalric, Lord of Tyre, with the aid of the Knights Templar, stages a Coup d'état against his older brother Henry II, King of Cyprus. Although Henry remains the nominal king, he is confined at the Cypriot city of Strovolos, and Amalric assumes all of the King's powers. Amalric will be assassinated in 1310.
  • May 5Charles the Lame, King of Naples, accuses Philip I of Piedmont and Isabella of Villehardouin of disloyalty, and deprives them of the right to rule the Principality of Achaea (located in southern Greece on the Peloponnese peninsula). King Charles awards Achaea to his son, Philip I, Prince of Taranto.
  • May 13 – (29 Shawwal 705 AH) A Moorish Nasrid fleet sent by Sultan Sultan Muhammad III of the Emirate of Granada (now part of Spain) makes a surprise attack on Africa and captures Ceuta.[6] Nasrid forces land in Ksar es-Seghir, Larache, and Asilah, occupying these Atlantic ports. At the same time, Prince Uthman ibn Abi al-Ula of the Marinid Sultanate, leads a rebellion against Sultan Abu Yaqub Yusuf an-Nasr. He conquers a mountainous area in northern Morocco and allies himself with Granada.[7][8]
  • John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, the desecration of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries by Robert Bruce, and to fight the infidels in the Holy Land. The King knights his son, Prince Edward of Caernarfon. The Prince knights 266 other men. King Edward then gives his "Raise the Dragon" orders, proclaiming that no mercy is to be granted to Scotland, and all Scots taken in arms are to be executed without trial. Among the persons knighted, the King appoints Aymer de Valance, lieutenant for Scotland. Valence will make his base at Perth, along with Henry Percy and Robert Clifford, to organize an army.[9]
  • May 30 – The English Parliament meets at Westminster in a one-day session, on orders of King Edward I, a week after Whit Sunday and passes a five percent tax on "citizens and burgesses and communities of all the cities and boroughs of the realm and the tenants of our demesne."[10]
  • June 8 – After bringing the Flemish War to a victorious conclusion, King Philip IV of France orders the silver content of new livre coins to be raised back to the 1285 level of 3.96 grams of silver, and orders the devaluation of the coins of 1303, 1304 and 1305 to one-third of their face value. The economic decree leads to rioting.[11]
  • June 19Battle of Methven: Scottish forces (some 5,000 men) under Robert the Bruce are defeated by the English army at Methven. During the battle, the Scots are overwhelmed by a surprise attack on their camp. They are outnumbered, but Bruce manages to form a phalanx to break free. Finally, he is forced to retreat, leaving many of his followers dead or soon to be executed.[12]
  • city of Rhodes (which will not fall until August 15, 1310).[13]

July – September

October – December

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Asia

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Economy

  • In London, a city ordinance decrees that heating with coal is forbidden when Parliament is in session (the ordinance is not particularly effective).[25]

Religion

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References

  1. ^ Peri Bearman, The Law Applied: Contextualizing the Islamic Shari'a (I.B.Tauris, 2007) pp.263–264
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  6. ^ "13 mai 1306: Le "Sultan de Grenade s'empare par surprise", Auguste Mouliéras, Le Maroc inconnu: vingt deux ans d'explorations dans le Maroc septentrional (1872 à 1893) ("The unknown Morocco: twenty two years of explorations in northern Morocco (1872 to 1893)" (Challamel, 1895) p.725
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  10. ^ Parliamentary Writs, i. pp. 165-166, 178
  11. ^ "The Monetary Fluctuations in Philip IV's Kingdom of France and Their Relevance to the Arrest of the Templars", by Ignacio de la Torre, in The Debate on the Trial of the Templars (1307–1314), ed. by Jochen Burgtorf, et al. (Ashgate, 2010) pp. 57–68
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  13. ^ "The Hospitallers at Rhodes, 1306–1421", by Anthony Luttrell, in A History of the Crusades, Volume III: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, ed. by Kenneth M. Setton and Harry W. Hazard (University of Wisconsin Press, 1975) pp. 278–313
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  15. ^ Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Memorial of the Royal Progress in Scotland (A. and C. Black, 1843) pp.359-360
  16. ^ MacDougall, Ian (1905). "The Brooch of Lorn"in "Communications and Replies", pp. 110–115. The Scottish Historical Review, Vol. 3, Edinburgh University Press.
  17. ^ The Actis and Deidis of the Illustere and Vailðeand Campioun Schir William Wallace, Knicht of Ellerslie, by Henry the Minstrel, Commonly Known as Blind Harry, ed. by James Moir (William Blackwood and Sons, 1889) p.460
  18. ^ Robert de Bruce (King of Scotland (1810). The Life of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, p. 39. Edinburgh, retrieved 14 January 2017.
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  20. ^ J. Enoch Powell and Keith Wallis, The House of Lords in the Middle Ages (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968), p.255
  21. ^ Favier, Jean (2012). Le Bourgeois de Paris au Moyen Age. Paris: Tallandier. p. 135.
  22. ^ Duncan, A. A. M. (1973). "The Scots' Invasion of Ireland, 1315", p. 105, in R. R. Davies (ed.). The British Isles, 1100–1500, pp. 100–117. Edinburgh: J. Donald (1988).
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  25. ^ Holland, John (1841). The history and description of fossil fuel, the collieries, and coal trade of Great Britain. London: Whittaker and Company. pp. 313–314.
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  28. ^ Chris Jones, "John of Paris: Through a Glass Darkly?," in John of Paris: Beyond Royal and Papal Power, ed. Jones, Turnhout: Brepols, 2015, pp. 1-31.
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