1306
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1270s 1280s 1290s – 1300s – 1310s 1320s 1330s |
| Years: | 1303 1304 1305 – 1306 – 1307 1308 1309 |
| 1306 by topic | |
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| 1306 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1306 MCCCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2059 |
| Armenian calendar | 755 ԹՎ ՉԾԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6056 |
| Bengali calendar | 713 |
| Berber calendar | 2256 |
| English Regnal year | 34 Edw. 1 – 35 Edw. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1850 |
| Burmese calendar | 668 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6814–6815 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4002 or 3942 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4003 or 3943 |
| Coptic calendar | 1022–1023 |
| Discordian calendar | 2472 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1298–1299 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5066–5067 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1362–1363 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1228–1229 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4407–4408 |
| Holocene calendar | 11306 |
| Igbo calendar | 306–307 |
| Iranian calendar | 684–685 |
| Islamic calendar | 705–706 |
| Japanese calendar | Kagen 4 / Tokuji 1 (徳治元年) |
| Julian calendar | 1306 MCCCVI |
| Korean calendar | 3639 |
| Minguo calendar | 606 before ROC 民前606年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1848–1849 |
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Year 1306 (MCCCVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- February 10 – before the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, his leading political rival sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence
- March 25 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of the Scots only five weeks after the murder in Dumfries.
- 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.
- June – The Knights Hospitaller conquer the islands of Kos and Kastellorizo, but fail in their attack against Rhodes.[1]
- December 6 – the monetary policy of Philippe le Bel triggers a revolt in Paris. The provost's house is burned and the king has to flee to the fortress of the Temple .[2]
Date unknown
- Philip IV of France exiles all the Jews from France and confiscates their property.[3]
- In London, a city ordinance decrees that heating with coal is forbidden when parliament is in session (the ordinance is not particularly effective).[4]
- The Mongols raid India.
Births
- August 8 – Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1353)
- Ashikaga Tadayoshi, general of the Northern and Southern Courts (d. 1352)
- Sasaki Takauji, Japanese poet, warrior, and bureaucrat (d. 1373)
Deaths
- February 10 – John "the Red" Comyn, Scottish nobleman
- March 21 – Robert II, Duke of Burgundy, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1248)
- May 5 – Constantine Palaiologos, Byzantine prince and general (b. 1261)
- August 4 – King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)
- December 6 – Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk (b. 1270)
- Robert de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh
References
- ↑ Lock, Peter (2013). The Routledge Companion to the Crusades. Routledge. p. 124. ISBN 9781135131371.
- ↑ Favier, Jean (2012). Le Bourgeois de Paris au Moyen Age. Paris: Tallandier. p. 135.
- ↑ Nirenberg, David (1998). Communities of violence: persecution of minorities in the Middle Ages. Princeton: Princeton University Press. p. 18. ISBN 0-691-05889-X.
- ↑ 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.