1310

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Year 1310 (MCCCX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January – Forces of the Kingdom of Castile retreat from the Siege of Algeciras after enduring severe losses and securing a peace treaty.
• March – Muhammed III, former Sultan of the Emirate of Granada is blinded and found dead in a pool after an attempted coup to retake his throne from his brother Nasr.
• May 11 – In France, 54 members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake for heresy.

Date unknown

• Abu al-Fida becomes governor of Hama.
• The first purpose-built accommodation for students (the Mob Quad) is completed in Merton College, Oxford, England.
• Basarab I, after the battle against the Tatars, is named "big prince" of Wallachia by the feudal lords of the region. The country remains under Hungarian domination until the Battle of Posada on 12 October, 1330.

Births

• April 30 – King Casimir III of Poland (d. 1368)
• May 5 – Preczlaw of Pogarell (d. 1376)
• November 29 – John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray, English Baron (d. 1361)
• November 30 – Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (d. 1349)
• date unknown
  • Gil Alvarez De Albornoz, Spanish cardinal
  • Guillaume Tirel, chef (d. 1395)
  • Pope Urban V (d. 1370)

Deaths

• March – Muhammed III, Sultan of Granada (b. 1256)
• May 22 – Saint Humility (b. c. 1226)
• June 1 – Marguerite Porete, French mystic (burnt at the stake)
• June 5 – Amalric, Prince of Tyre (b. c. 1272)
• October 1 – Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon (b. 1257)
• October 28 – Ecumenical Patriarch Athanasius I of Constantinople (b. 1230)
• December 10 – Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1271)
• date unknown
  • Shams al-Din ibn Ashraf Al-Samarqandi, Samarkandi astronomer (b. 1250)
  • George Pachymeres, Byzantine historian (b. 1242)

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