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'Years:' 1311 1312 1313 - 1314 - 1315 1316 1317

'Decades:' 1280s 1290s 1300s - '1310s' - 1320s 1330s 1340s

'Centuries:' 13th century - '14th century' - 15th century

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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ March 18 - Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was burned at the stake.

★ June 24 - Battle of Bannockburn. Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce defeated Edward II of England. Scotland regains its independence.

★ The Mappa Mundi (Map of the World) is made. It showed Jerusalem at the centre, as decreed in the Bible.

★ Exeter College, Oxford founded by Walter de Stapledon.

Births

★ Ramathibodi I, king of Ayutthaya (died 1369)

★ Philippa of Hainault, Queen consort of Edward III of England (died 1369)

★ Valdemar III of Denmark (died 1364)

Deaths

★ March 4 - Jakub Świnka, Polish Catholic priest

★ March 18

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★ Jacques de Molay, last Grand Master of the Knights Templar

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★ Geoffroy de Charney, Preceptor of Normandy for the Knights Templar

★ April 20 - Pope Clement V (born 1264)

★ November 13 - Albert the Degenerate, Landgrave of Thuringia

★ November 29 - King Philip IV of France (born 1268)

★ ''date unknown'' - Giovanni Pisano, Italian sculptor (born 1250)