1307 - Definition and Overview

Events

• October 13 - All Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into "admitting" heresy.
• November 18 - (Legendary) - William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.
• Edward II becomes King of England.
• Per Abad writes the codex of the Cantar de mio Cid.

Births

•  Leonore of Castile (1307-1359) wife of Alfonso the Benign of Aragorn and Jaime of Aragorn.

Deaths

• July 3/4 - Rudolph I of Bohemia (=Rudolph III of Austria)
• July 7 - Edward I

Heads of states

• Byzantine Empire - Andronicus II Palaeologus Byzantine Emperor (1282-1328)
• England
  • Edward I King of England (1272-1307)
  • Edward II King of England (1307-1327)
• France - Philippe IV, the Fair King of France (1285-1314)
• Holy See - Clement V pope (1305-1314)
• Ottoman Empire - Osman I Sultan and founder of the Empire (1299-1326)