1315

'Years:' 1312 1313 1314 - 1315 - 1316 1317 1318

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

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

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ May 9 - Eudes IV succeeds Hugh V as Duke of Burgundy.

★ August - Louis X is crowned King of France at Reims.

★ August 13 - Louis X of France marries Clemence d'Anjou.

★ October 25 - Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw attack Liverpool Castle.

★ November 15 - Swiss defeat Leopold of Austria at Battle of Morgarten, ensuring independence for the Swiss Confederation.

★ The Great Famine of 1315-1317.

★ Hōjō Mototoki becomes Kamakura shogun of Japan.

★ John XIII Glykys becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.

★ Flushing is granted city rights.

★ Witzlaw III, prince of Rügen, builds a castle at Barth.

★ Emir Ismael Abu-I-Walid orders the Jews of Granada, Spain to don the yellow badge

★ Afonso IV of Portugal succeeds his father Denis of Portugal

★ Dassel of Germany is granted city rights.

★ Kos fortress is erected in Greece

★ Arsenian schism ends

★ A Muslim prince of Nubian royal blood ascends the throne of Dongola as king. (History of Sudan (Coming of Islam to the Turkiyah))

★ Estimation: Cairo, capital of Mamluk Egypt becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Hangzhou in Mongolian China.[1]

★ The Borough of Liverpool, along with Liverpool Castle, is granted to Robert de Holland.

Births

★ May 20 - Bonne of Luxembourg, queen of John II of France (died 1349)

★ James III of Majorca (died 1349)

Deaths

★ May 9 - Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (born 1282)

★ June 29 - Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (born 1235)

★ August 10 - Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick, English nobleman

★ August 15 - Margaret of Burgundy (born 1290)