1315 - Definition and Overview

Events

• August 13 - Louis X of France marries Clemence d'Anjou.
• November 15 - Swiss defeat Leopold of Austria at Battle of Morgarten, ensuring independence for the Swiss Confederation.
• August - Louis X is crowned King of France.
• The Great Famine of 1315-1317.
• Hojo Mototoki becomes Kamakura shogun of Japan.
• Eudes IV succeeds Hugh V as Duke of Burgundy.
• 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 erected in Greece
• Arsenian schism ends
• Louis X of France crowned at Reims

Births

• Buonamico Buffalmacco, Italian painter

Deaths

• June 29 - Ramon Llull
• Hojo Hirotoki, Kamakura regent
• Maria, first wife of Charles I of Hungary