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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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