1312

This article is about the year 1312.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1280s  1290s  1300s  – 1310s –  1320s  1330s  1340s
Years:	1309 1310 1311 – 1312 – 1313 1314 1315

1312 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1312 in poetry

1312 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1312 MCCCXII
Ab urbe condita	2065
Armenian calendar	761 ԹՎ ՉԿԱ
Assyrian calendar	6062
Bengali calendar	719
Berber calendar	2262
English Regnal year	5 Edw. 2 – 6 Edw. 2
Buddhist calendar	1856
Burmese calendar	674
Byzantine calendar	6820–6821
Chinese calendar	辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4008 or 3948     — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4009 or 3949
Coptic calendar	1028–1029
Discordian calendar	2478
Ethiopian calendar	1304–1305
Hebrew calendar	5072–5073
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1368–1369
- Shaka Samvat	1234–1235
- Kali Yuga	4413–4414
Holocene calendar	11312
Igbo calendar	312–313
Iranian calendar	690–691
Islamic calendar	711–712
Japanese calendar	Ōchō 2 / Shōwa 1 (正和元年)
Julian calendar	1312 MCCCXII
Korean calendar	3645
Minguo calendar	600 before ROC 民前600年
Thai solar calendar	1854–1855

Year 1312 (MCCCXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• April – Pope Clement V forcibly disbands the Knights Templar. This is following years of persecution of the Knights Templar, initially started on Friday, October 13th, 1307 in collusion with King Philip "the fair" Le Bel of France.
• June 15; The Battle of Rozgony
• June 29 – Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned in the Lateran Palace due to St Peter's Basilica being occupied by Romans hostile to him.
• September 27 – the Charter of Kortenberg is signed, and is possibly the first constitution which allows democratic decisions in feudal mainland Europe.
• October 31 – Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor is forced to abandon his campaign against Florence.

Date unknown

• The Knights Hospitaller, newly based on Rhodes, defeat a Turkish fleet in the Cyclades.
• The Siege of Rostock begins.
• The Canary Islands are "rediscovered" by Lancelotto Malocello, a Genoese navigator, who sails to Lanzarote and remains there for almost two decades.

• Mansa Musa starts to rule the Mali Empire (approximate date).

Births

• November 13 – King Edward III of England (d. 1377)
• date unknown – William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster (d. 1333)

Deaths

• May 13 – Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)
• June 19 – Piers Gaveston, favourite of Edward II of England
• August 27 – Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1262)
• September 7 – King Ferdinand IV of Castile (b. 1285)
• October 27 – John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
• date unknown – Tokhta, khan of the Blue Horde