1306

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1306 in poetry

1306 in other calendars

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

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.
• 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 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 (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

1. Lock, Peter (2013). The Routledge Companion to the Crusades. Routledge. p. 124. ISBN 9781135131371.
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.