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

Contents

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 (briefly) and Kastellorizo, and begin their conquest of Rhodes.
  • September 29 – Håtuna games 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 .

    • Date unknown

  • Philip IV of France exiles all the Jews from France and confiscates their property.
  • In London, a city ordinance decrees that heating with coal is forbidden when parliament is in session (the ordinance is not particularly effective).
  • 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
  • Khutulun, Mongol princess and warrior (b. 1260)

    • References

    1306 Wikipedia
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