1315

Year 1315 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1315

* May 9 - Eudes IV succeeds Hugh V as Duke of Burgundy.
* August - Louis X is crowned King of France at Reims.
* August 13 - Louis X of France marries Clemence d'Anjou.
* October 25 - Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw attack Liverpool Castle.
* November 15 - Battle of Morgarten: The Swiss defeat Leopold of Austria, ensuring independence for the Swiss Confederation.

Undated

* Hōjō Mototoki becomes Kamakura shogun of Japan.
* 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.
* The Kos Fortress is erected in Greece.
* The Arsenian schism ends.
* A Muslim prince of Nubian royal blood ascends the throne of Dongola as king (History of Sudan (Coming of Islam to the Turkiyah)).
* Estimation: Cairo, capital of Mamluk Egypt becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Hangzhou in Mongolian China.
* The Borough of Liverpool, along with Liverpool Castle, is granted to Robert de Holland.

Ongoing

* The Great Famine of 1315-1317 begins.

Births

* May 20 - Bonne of Luxembourg, queen of John II of France (d. 1349)
* James III of Majorca (d. 1349)
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Deaths

* May 9 - Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
* June 29 - Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
* August 10 - Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick, English nobleman
* August 15 - Margaret of Burgundy (b. 1290)
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