1311

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1311 is a common year starting on a Friday.

Events

6 January: Henri VII of Luxembourg is crowned king of Italy in Milan.
January 27: The reign of Bouyantou, great Khan of the Mongols began (end in 1320).
January: currency devaluation in France. Lamb's hit, coin worth a book tournaments (20 cents).
11 February: John of Luxembourg was crowned king of Bohemia by the Archbishop of Mainz. Half French by his education, he will be involved in the struggles for the empire between the Habsburgs and the Wittelsbach, taking part in the second. With the hostility of the Czech nobility, he abandoned the administration of the country to his wife and spent his life traveling Europe, going to Luxembourg and the court of France. A wandering knight, he tried to make Prague a center of chivalry with an organization of the round table of King Arthur.
12 February: Emperor Henry VII faces Milan with a revolt fomented by the Della Torre, which will extend to other Lombard cities, while the Visconti played a troubled role.
15 March: The Duchy of Athens passes into the hands of the Catalans at the Battle of Halmyros. The Catalan mercenaries recruited by the Duke of Athens Gautier V of Brienne massacred him with all his knights. This disaster ended in ruining the French predominance in the East. The Catalan Duchy in Athens remained until 1388.
7 April: (Woplawki) between Teutonic Order and Vytenis, Grand Duke of Lithuania.
April 15th: Vicence, rebelled against Padua, was taken by Cangrande della Scala and then annexed by Verona (finally in 1404).
April 27: Rex Gloriae bubble. Pope Clement V settles the dispute with France. Guillaume de Nogaret and Sciarra Colonna are absolved but the conviction of Boniface VIII is avoided.
18 May: In Italy, the imperial army of Henry VII, after taking Cremonus, began the siege of Brescia.
13 July: Matteo Visconti recovered in Milan. He conquers Bergamo, Cremon, Plaisance, Pavia, Alexandria, Tortone and Verceil.
September 18: Brescia capitulation besieged since May 19 by the Imperials.
16 October: the beginning of the Vienna Council. Pope Clement V nevertheless granted the convocation of a council to Philip the Bel to judge the memory of Boniface VIII. He managed to avoid the trial by granting the king the condemnation of the Templars (1312). Deprived of its true purpose, the Council takes measures to strengthen the unity of the Church and to stimulate its intellectual activity (language channel, project of creation of Eastern language chairs in universities). During the Council of Vienna, the envoys of King Henry II of Cyprus gave Pope Clement V a plan for a crusade in the Holy Land.
21 October: Henry VII entered Genoa where he restored peace between the factions by appointing vicars of empire.

The Turks ravaged Thrace for the first time between 1311 and 1314.
Council condemning a priest of Novgorod who refused to institute