1306

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

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1280s 1290s 1300s 1310s 1320s
Years:	1303 1304 1305 1306 1307 1308 1309

1306 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1306 MCCCVI
Ab urbe condita	2059
Armenian calendar	755 ԹՎ ՉԾԵ
Assyrian calendar	6056
Balinese saka calendar	1227–1228
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	1227–1228
- Kali Yuga	4406–4407
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)
Javanese calendar	1217–1218
Julian calendar	1306 MCCCVI
Korean calendar	3639
Minguo calendar	606 before ROC 民前606年
Nanakshahi calendar	−162
Thai solar calendar	1848–1849
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–December

• February 10 – Scottish Wars of Independence: Before the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, his leading political rival, sparking revolution.
• March 25 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of the Scots.
• May – Hugh the younger Despenser, favourite of Edward, Prince of Wales, marries heiress Eleanor de Clare.
• May 15 – One of the first exchange contracts (cambium) to mention the city of Bruges involves two parties: Giovanni Villani, representing the Peruzzi Company, granting a loan to Tommaso Fini, representing the Gallerani Company of Siena.
• June – The Knights Hospitaller conquer the islands of Kos (briefly) and Kastellorizo, and begin their conquest of Rhodes.[1]
• June 19 – Battle of Methven: The forces of the Earl of Pembroke defeat Bruce's Scottish rebels.
• August - September – The English army sacks Kildrummy Castle, captures and executes Nigel Bruce (brother of Robert I), and captures Queen Elizabeth de Burgh, Christina Bruce and Mary Bruce (sisters of Robert I), and Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert I.
• September 29 – The Hatuna Games are played in Sweden.
• 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)
• Isabella, Countess of Brienne, vassal ruler and claimant (d. 1360)
• 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 – Araniko, Nepali artist (b. 1245)
• March 21 – Robert II, 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
• Khutulun, Mongol princess and warrior (b. 1260)

References

1. Luttrell, Anthony (1975). "The Hospitallers at Rhodes, 1306–1421". In Hazard, Harry W. (ed.). A History of the Crusades, Volume III: The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 278–313. ISBN 0-299-06670-3.
2. Favier, Jean (2012). Le Bourgeois de Paris au Moyen Age. Paris: Tallandier. p. 135.
3. Nirenberg, David (1998). Communities of violence: persecution of minorities in the Middle Ages. Princeton: Princeton University Press. p. 18. ISBN 0-691-05889-X.
4. 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.