1308

This article is about the year 1308.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1270s  1280s  1290s  – 1300s –  1310s  1320s  1330s
Years:	1305 1306 1307 – 1308 – 1309 1310 1311

1308 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1308 in poetry

1308 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1308 MCCCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2061
Armenian calendar	757 ԹՎ ՉԾԷ
Assyrian calendar	6058
Bengali calendar	715
Berber calendar	2258
English Regnal year	1 Edw. 2 – 2 Edw. 2
Buddhist calendar	1852
Burmese calendar	670
Byzantine calendar	6816–6817
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4004 or 3944     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4005 or 3945
Coptic calendar	1024–1025
Discordian calendar	2474
Ethiopian calendar	1300–1301
Hebrew calendar	5068–5069
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1364–1365
- Shaka Samvat	1230–1231
- Kali Yuga	4409–4410
Holocene calendar	11308
Igbo calendar	308–309
Iranian calendar	686–687
Islamic calendar	707–708
Japanese calendar	Tokuji 3 / Enkyō 1 (延慶元年)
Julian calendar	1308 MCCCVIII
Korean calendar	3641
Minguo calendar	604 before ROC 民前604年
Thai solar calendar	1850–1851

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

Events

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.
• 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.
• The Knights Hospitaller capture the city and island of Rhodes, which becomes their main base.
• approx. date – Dante Alighieri begins to write the Divine Comedy.

Births

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

Deaths

• March 18 – Yuriy I of Halych
• 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