1311

This article is about the year 1311.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1280s  1290s  1300s  – 1310s –  1320s  1330s  1340s
Years:	1308 1309 1310 – 1311 – 1312 1313 1314

1311 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1311 in poetry

1311 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1311 MCCCXI
Ab urbe condita	2064
Armenian calendar	760 ԹՎ ՉԿ
Assyrian calendar	6061
Bengali calendar	718
Berber calendar	2261
English Regnal year	4 Edw. 2 – 5 Edw. 2
Buddhist calendar	1855
Burmese calendar	673
Byzantine calendar	6819–6820
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4007 or 3947     — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4008 or 3948
Coptic calendar	1027–1028
Discordian calendar	2477
Ethiopian calendar	1303–1304
Hebrew calendar	5071–5072
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1367–1368
- Shaka Samvat	1233–1234
- Kali Yuga	4412–4413
Holocene calendar	11311
Igbo calendar	311–312
Iranian calendar	689–690
Islamic calendar	710–711
Japanese calendar	Enkyō 4 / Ōchō 1 (応長元年)
Julian calendar	1311 MCCCXI
Korean calendar	3644
Minguo calendar	601 before ROC 民前601年
Thai solar calendar	1853–1854

Year 1311 (MCCCXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• March 15 – Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V, Count of Brienne and his forces to take control of the Duchy of Athens.
• October 16 - Beginning of the Council of Vienne.

Date unknown

• A committee of 21 English barons draw up a series of ordinances, which substitute ordainers for the King (Edward II) as the effective government of the country.
• Bolingbroke Castle passes to the House of Lancaster.
• Completion of Lincoln Cathedral in England. With the spire reaching around 525 feet (160 m) it becomes the world's tallest structure (surpassing the Great Pyramid of Giza, which held the record for almost 4,000 years), a record it holds until the spire is blown down in 1549.

Births

• January 28 – Joan II of Navarre, daughter of King Louis X of France (d. 1349)
• June 24 – Philippa of Hainault, queen of Edward III of England (d. 1369)
• August 13 – King Alfonso XI of Castile (d. 1350)
• July 1 – Liu Bowen, Chinese military strategist, officer, statesman and poet (d. 1375)
• date unknown
  • Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1356)
  • Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut (d. 1356)

Deaths

• January 27 – Külüg Khan, Emperor Wuzong of Yuan
• March 3 – Antony Bek, bishop of Durham
• March 15 – at the Battle of Halmyros:
  • Walter V, Count of Brienne, Duke of Athens
  • Thomas III d'Autremencourt, Lord of Salona, Marshal of Achaea
  • Albert Pallavicini, Margrave of Bodonitza
  • George I Ghisi, Triarch of Euboea, Baron of Chalandritsa, Lord of Tinos, Mykonos, Serifos and Keos
  • Renaud de la Roche, Baron of Veligosti–Damala
• May 29 – James II of Majorca (b. 1243)
• August 13 – Pietro Gradenigo, Doge of Venice
• date unknown
  • David VIII of Georgia (b. 1273)
  • Arnold of Villanova, Spanish alchemist and physician (b. 1235)
• probable – Bernard Saisset, Occitan bishop of Pamiers (b. 1232)