| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1311 MCCCXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2064 |
| Armenian calendar | 760 ԹՎ ՉԿ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6061 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1232–1233 |
| Bengali calendar | 718 |
| Berber calendar | 2261 |
| English Regnal year | 4 Edw. 2 – 5 Edw. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1855 |
| Burmese calendar | 673 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6819–6820 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4007 or 3947 — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4008 or 3948 |
| Coptic calendar | 1027–1028 |
| Discordian calendar | 2477 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1303–1304 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5071–5072 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1367–1368 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1232–1233 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4411–4412 |
| Holocene calendar | 11311 |
| Igbo calendar | 311–312 |
| Iranian calendar | 689–690 |
| Islamic calendar | 710–711 |
| Japanese calendar | Enkyō 4 / Ōchō 1 (応長元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1222–1223 |
| Julian calendar | 1311 MCCCXI |
| Korean calendar | 3644 |
| Minguo calendar | 601 before ROC 民前601年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −157 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1853–1854 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 1437 or 1056 or 284 — to — 阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 1438 or 1057 or 285 |
Year 1311 (MCCCXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- January 6 – Henry VII is crowned King of Italy in Milan, and on February 12 crushes a local rebellion.
- 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.[1]
- April 7 – Battle of Wopławki: The Teutonic Knights defeat the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
- August 16 – The Parliament of England presents the Ordinances of 1311 to King Edward II (document dated 5 October; published on 11 October); these substitute the 21 Lord Ordainers for the King as the effective government of the country.[2]
- October 16 – The Council of Vienne begins.
Date unknown
- Bolingbroke Castle passes to the House of Lancaster.
- Lincoln Cathedral in England is completed; with the spire reaching around 525 feet (160 m),[3] 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.
Births
- January 28 or 1312 – Joan II of Navarre, queen regnant of Navarre (d. 1349)
- June 24 or 1314 – Philippa of Hainault, queen of Edward III of England (d. 1369)
- August 13 – King Alfonso XI of Castile (d. 1350)
- July 1 – Liu Bowen, Chinese military strategist, officer, statesman and poet (d. 1375)
- date unknown
- Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1356)
- Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut (d. 1356)
Deaths
- January 27 – Külüg Khan, Emperor Wuzong of Yuan
- March 3 – Antony Bek, bishop of Durham
- March 15 – at the Battle of Halmyros:
- Walter V, Count of Brienne, Duke of Athens
- Thomas III d'Autremencourt, Lord of Salona, Marshal of Achaea
- Albert Pallavicini, Margrave of Bodonitza
- George I Ghisi, Triarch of Euboea, Baron of Chalandritsa, Lord of Tinos, Mykonos, Serifos and Keos
- May 29 – James II of Majorca (b. 1243)
- August 13 – Pietro Gradenigo, Doge of Venice
- September 5 – Amadeus Aba, Hungarian oligarch
- December 14 – Margaret of Brabant, German queen consort (b. 1276)
- date unknown
- David VIII of Georgia (b. 1273)
- Arnold of Villanova, Spanish alchemist and physician (b. 1235)
- Mangrai, founding king of Lan Na (b. 1238)
- probable – Bernard Saisset, Occitan bishop of Pamiers (b. 1232)
References
- ^ Lock, Peter (2013). The Routledge Companion to the Crusades. Routledge. p. 125. ISBN 9781135131371.
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 95–98. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ "Lincoln Cathedral". Skyscraper News. August 25, 2009. Retrieved February 22, 2012.