History of the World in Posts, 1 AD to 2011 AD

A.D. 1301: In Caernarvon, the conquered Welsh nobles ask Edward I to at least give them a nominal local ruler to represent their interests. They demand that he should be born in Wales, and should speak no English. Edward agrees, signs the treaty, and then presents the room with his infant son, born in Caernarvon Castle the previous night: "Behold your Prince of Wales!"

1302 AD: July 27 – The Ottoman Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Bapheus, heralding the Turkish conquest of Bithynia.

October 4 – A peace treaty between the Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Venice ends the Byzantine–Venetian War (1296–1302).

Pope Boniface VIII suppresses the Franciscans.

Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence by the Black Guelphs, as is Petrarch's father (see Guelphs and Ghibellines).

1303

• 24 February – Battle of Roslin: The Scots defeat the English.
• 4 March – Daniel of Russia, first prince of Moscow, dies.
• 4 April – Battle of Arques: The Flemings defeat the French.
• 20 April – Pope Boniface VIII founds the University of Rome La Sapienza.
• 29 May – Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to the English.
• 8 August – An earthquake destroys the Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt, one of the seven wonders of the world.
• 22 October – Pope Benedict XI succeeds Pope Boniface VIII as the 194th pope.

It's going to take us forever to get to the twentieth century, let me tell you right now.

edited 7th Jul '15 6:54:35 AM by MrLavisherMoot

And when we get there, we will see long posts to encapsulate many events, especially those from the World Wars.

1304 AD - The peace treaty is signed between the khanates of the Mongol Empire. It's the end of the civil war of the Mongols.

July 20 – Fall of Stirling Castle: Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold in the Wars of Scottish Independence. Two years later, Robert The Bruce will resume the rebellion.

edited 7th Jul '15 6:59:51 AM by Quag15

1305 AD:

• June 5 – Pope Clement V, formerly the Archbishop of Bordeaux Bertrand de Got, succeeds Pope Benedict XI as the 195th pope and is crowned at Lyon.
• August 5 – William Wallace is captured, having been turned over to the English by John de Menteith.
• (unknown) - Philip IV of France accuses the Knights Templar of heresy.

Ah, right.

edited 7th Jul '15 7:18:14 AM by DarkDestruction

You forgot William Wallace's capture or the accusation of heresy by Philip IV of France against the Knights Templar.

1306 AD - 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.

Philip IV of France exiles all the Jews from France and confiscates their property.

The Mongols raid India.

A.D. 1307:

• Edward I of England dies near the Scottish border, leaving the crown to his son Edward.
• King Philip the Fair arrests all the Knights Templar in France, on mass accusations of heresy.
• The Knights Hospitaller invade the Byzantine-held island of Rhodes.
• In Altdorf, Switzerland, William Tell is forcibly obliged to shoot an apple off his son's head.

A.D. 1308

• January 25 – King Edward II of England marries Isabella of France. They are both crowned a month later (on February 25).
• November 27 – Henry VII, King of Germany, is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
• approx. date – Dante Alighieri begins to write the Divine Comedy.

1309 AD

March 9 – Pope Clement V settles the papal seat in Avignon, following a visit.

August 15 – The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island, and rename themselves as the Knights of Rhodes.

September 12 – Ferdinand IV of Castile captures the town of Gibraltar in his campaign against the Emirate of Granada.

edited 21st Apr '16 1:29:28 PM by Superjohn

1310 A.D.

• May 11th: 54 members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics.

• May 20th: Shoes were made for both left and right feet.

• June 9th: Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.

• August 31st: German king Heinrich VII makes his son Johan king of Bohemia.

edited 8th Jul '15 8:43:27 AM by 3_D_S

1311 AD

.March 15 – Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V, Count of Brienne and his forces to take control of the Duchy of Athens.

.October 16 - Beginning of the Council of Vienne.

Dates unknown

.A committee of 21 English barons draw up a series of ordinances, which substitute ordainers for the King Edward II as the effective government of the country.

.Bolingbroke Castle passes to the House of Lancaster.

.Completion of Lincoln Cathedral in England. With the spire reaching around 525 feet (160 m) it becomes the world's tallest structure (surpassing the Great Pyramid of Giza, which held the record for almost 4,000 years), a record it holds until the spire is blown down in 1549.

edited 8th Jul '15 3:02:47 PM by Superjohn

1312 AD:

April – Pope Clement V forcibly disbands the Knights Templar. This is following years of persecution of the Knights Templar, initially started on Friday, October 13th, 1307 in collusion with King Philip of France.

September 27 – the Charter of Kortenberg is signed, and is possibly the first constitution which allows democratic decisions in feudal mainland Europe.

June 29 – Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned in the Lateran Palace due to St Peter's Basilica being occupied by Romans hostile to him. In October 31, he is forced to abandon his campaign against Florence.

A.D. 1313:

• Giovanni Boccaccio is born near Florence.
• Wang Chen, the inventor of wooden moveable-type printing, publishes his classic treatise on agriculture.
• The Turkish emir Sarukhan conquers Thyatira (one of the Seven Churches of Revelation) and styles himself the Bey of Magnesia.

1314 AD

March 18 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake in Paris.

April 4 – Exeter College, Oxford is founded by Walter de Stapledon.

June 24 – Battle of Bannockburn: Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce defeat Edward II of England, regaining Scotland's independence.

August 31 – King Haakon V of Norway moves his capital from Bergen to Oslo, where he builds Akershus Fortress, from which Norway is ruled for the next 500 years.

October 19 – Frederick the Fair of the House of Habsburg is elected King of the Romans at Sachsenhausen (Frankfurt am Main) by four of the electors, being crowned on November 25 at Bonn Minster.

October 20 – Louis IV of the House of Wittelsbach is elected King of the Romans at Sachsenhausen by five of the electors, being crowned on November 25 at Aachen.

November 29 – Philip IV of France is succeeded by Louis X.

Undated – Amda Seyon starts to rule as Emperor of Ethiopia. He defeats the Muslims at Ifat

edited 8th Jul '15 3:48:16 PM by Superjohn

The Great Famine of 1315 to 1317 starts this year, though it occasionally dated as 1315 to 1322.

1316

• The Great Famine of 1315–17 is at its peak.
• The Pound sterling experiences the greatest year of inflation in its history, at 100.04%, losing over half its value.

A.D. 1317:

• Somewhere in southern China the Black Death has its genesis, and begins spreading quickly.
• King Ramkhamhaeng the Great dies, bringing an end to the Sukhothai empire's golden age.
• The king of Sweden has his brothers imprisoned and starved to death, launching a bloody civil war.
• Pope John formally bans the practice of alchemy.

A.D. 1318:

• After allegedly murdering his rebellious brothers, King Birger of Sweden is deposed by their supporters and flees to Denmark. His son Magnus is executed in Stockholm.
• The archbishop of Naples sends troops to crush a bid for greater autonomy in the Papal holding of Benevento.
• In Egypt, a plague disastrously reduces the cattle and sheep population.

1319 AD

• Magnus Eriksson Becomes King of Norway at the young age of 3 years old, a few months later he is elected king of Sweden, uniting Norway and Sweden.
• The Aydinids receive a crushing defeat by the Knights Hospitaller at Chios.
• James of Aragon renounces his claim to the throne of Aragon in order to become a monk.

1320 AD

• Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland.
• The Scots sign the Declaration of Arbroath, reaffirming their independence.
• Birth of Peter I of Portugal.

1321 AD

• Rumors spread that French lepers are contaminating wells with their disease, on the orders of Jews and Moors.

1322 AD

• Jews are expelled from France for the third time.
• Battle of Mühldorf, in which Bavaria, under Louis of Wittelsbach, defeated the Austrian forces under Frederick of Habsburg.
• January 11: Birth of Emperor Komyo of Japan, an Ashikaga Pretender.
• Mladen II Šubić of Bribir, a ban of Croatia and Lord of all Bosnia defeated in the battle of Bliska, is arrested by the Parliament.
• Battle of Old Byland, part of the First Scottish War of Independence. Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats English troops in North Yorkshire.
• Death of Theodore Svetoslav, seventeenth emperor of Bulgaria and first emperor of the Terter dynasty.

whoopsie do

or is that a contribution

edited 19th Apr '16 9:37:14 AM by arcada188

Edit: 1323 AD

• Thomas Aquinas is canonized, no not with an actual canon.
• Edward Stays for 6 days at Liverpool Castle.
• Sweden and the Novgorod Republic sign a treaty regulating borders.

edited 19th Apr '16 9:55:51 AM by Superjohn

1324 AD

• A weak Black Death epidemic starts spreading through Asia.
• Marsilius of Padua writes a political treatise on unlimited monarchical power, Defensor pacis.
• Death of Amadeus V, Count of Savoy, at October 16.

edited 19th Apr '16 9:43:34 AM by arcada188

1325 AD

• Afonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
• Muhammad bin Tughluq succeeds his father Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq as Sultan of Delhi.
• The city of Tenochtitlan is founded in the Aztec Empire.

edited 19th Apr '16 9:56:14 AM by Superjohn