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Year 1308 (MCCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

January–December

  • January 25 – King Edward II of England marries Isabella of France. They are both crowned a month later (on February 25).
  • March 8 – Póvoa de Varzim (then Varazim), Portugal gains a foral from Denis of Portugal.
  • October 13 – Walter Reynolds, is consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury in England.
  • November 27 – Henry VII, King of Germany, is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
  • December 28 – Emperor Hanazono ascends to the throne of Japan.

    • Date unknown

  • The Capet-Anjou family begins to rule Hungary.
  • Sultanate of Rûm ends.
  • King Philip IV of France purchases the Hôtel de Nesle and builds one of the earliest indoor tennis courts there.
  • approx. date – Dante Alighieri begins to write the Divine Comedy.

    • Births

  • date unknown
  • Longchenpa, Buddhist teacher (d. 1363)
  • Prince Moriyoshi, Japanese shogun (d. 1335)

    • Deaths

  • March 18 – Yuri I of Galicia
  • May 1 – Albert I of Germany, Duke of Austria (murdered) (b. 1255)
  • September 10 – Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)
  • October 10 – Patrick Dunbar, 8th Earl of Dunbar
  • November 8 – Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher
  • December 21 – Henry I of Hesse (b. 1244)
  • date unknown
  • Vakhtang III of Georgia (b. 1276)
  • Andrea Morisco

    • References

    1308 Wikipedia
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