1306

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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ March 25 - Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.

★ May - Hugh the younger Despenser, favourite of King Edward II of England, is married to heiress Eleanor de Clare.

★ June 19 - Forces of Earl of Pembroke defeat Bruce's Scottish rebels at the Battle of Methven

★ 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

Births

★ Ashikaga Tadayoshi, general of the Northern and Southern Courts(d. 1352)

★ Sasaki Takauji, Japanese poet, warrior, and bureaucrat (d. 1373)

★ August 8 - Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria (d.1353)

Deaths

★ February 10 - John "the Red" Comyn, Scottish nobleman

★ March 21 - Robert II, Duke of Burgundy (born 1248)

★ August 4 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (born 1289)

★ Robert de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh

★ Roger de Flor, German soldier

★ Richard of Middleton, Norman theologian and philosopher of the Franciscan Order (born 1249)

★ Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk (born 1270)