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| Gregorian calendar | 1308 MCCCVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2061 |
| Armenian calendar | 757 ԹՎ ՉԾԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6058 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1229–1230 |
| 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 | 1229–1230 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4408–4409 |
| 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) |
| Javanese calendar | 1219–1220 |
| Julian calendar | 1308 MCCCVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3641 |
| Minguo calendar | 604 before ROC 民前604年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −160 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1850–1851 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1434 or 1053 or 281 — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1435 or 1054 or 282 |
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.
- April 15 – Abu Hammu I ascends to the throne of the Kingdom of Tlemcen after the death of his brother Abu-I Zayyan.
- 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.
- The Sultanate of Rûm ends.
- King Philip IV of France purchases the Hôtel de Nesle, and builds one of the earliest indoor tennis courts there.[1]
- approx. date – Dante Alighieri begins to write the Divine Comedy.
Births[]
- July 26 – Stefan Dušan, Emperor of the Serbs (d. 1355)
- date unknown
- Longchenpa, Tibetan Buddhist teacher (d. 1363)
- Laura de Noves, French countess (d. 1348)
- Prince Moriyoshi, Japanese shōgun (d. 1335)
Deaths[]
- March 18 – Yuri I of Galicia
- April 5 – Ivan Kőszegi, Hungarian baron
- May 1 – Albert I of Germany, Duke of Austria (murdered) (b. 1255)
- September 4 – Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of Sicily (b. 1250)
- September 10 – Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)
- October 10 – Patrick Dunbar, 8th Earl of Dunbar
- November 8 – Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher
- December 16 – Emperor Tran Nhan Tong of Vietnam (b. 1258)
- December 21 – Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (b. 1244)
- date unknown
- Vakhtang III of Georgia (b. 1276)
- Andrea Morisco, Genoese pirate
References[]
- ^ Bernard Grun, The Timetables of History, Simon & Schuster, 3rd ed, 1991. ISBN 0671749196. p185
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