1315

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Year 1315 (MCCCXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

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.
• August 29 – Battle of Montecatini: Pisa defeats the forces of Florence and Naples.
• September – Battle of Moiry Pass (Bruce campaign in Ireland): Edward Bruce (brother of the King of Scotland), with a Scots-Irish army, defeats a garrison of Hiberno-Norman troops of the Lordship of Ireland at Armagh, as part of his attempt to revive the High Kingship of Ireland.
• October 25 – Banastre Rebellion: Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw attack Liverpool Castle.
• November 15 – Battle of Morgarten: The Swiss defeat Leopold of Austria on the shore of the Ägerisee, ensuring independence for the Swiss Confederation.

Date unknown

• Louis X of France abolishes slavery within the Kingdom of France.
• Hōjō Mototoki becomes Kamakura shogun of Japan.
• John XIII Glykys becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
• Flushing, Netherlands is granted city rights.
• Witzlaw III, prince of Rügen, builds a castle at Barth.
• Emir Ismael Abu-I-Walid orders the Jews of Granada to don the yellow badge.
• Dassel, Germany is granted city rights.
• The Kos Fortress is erected by the Knights Hospitallers in Greece.
• The Arsenian schism ends.
• History of Sudan (Coming of Islam to the Turkiyah): A Muslim prince of Nubian royal blood ascends the throne of Dongola as king.
• 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.

Births

• April 5 – James III of Majorca (d. 1349)
• May 20 – Bonne of Luxembourg, Queen of John II of France (d. 1349)

Deaths

• February or March – Margaret of Villehardouin, Lady of Akova (b. 1266)
• March 10 – Agnes Blannbekin, Austrian Beguine mystic (b. c.1244)
• May 9 – Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
• June 29 – Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
• August 12 – Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick, English nobleman
• August 15 or April 30 – Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of France (b. 1290)
• August 29
  • Charles of Taranto (b. 1296)
  • Peter Tempesta, Count of Eboli (b. 1291)

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