Arrest of the Knights Templar
The French king destroys Europe's richest order
On Friday 13 October 1307 Philip IV had the Templars across France arrested in a single morning and charged with heresy under torture. The pope dissolved the order in 1312, and in 1314 Grand Master Jacques de Molay was burned in Paris.
Wikipedia (English) · 14th century
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 1291 Fall of Acre — 16 years earlier
Africa
- 1324 Hajj of Mansa Musa — 17 years later
- c. 1327 The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu — 20 years later
Asia
- 1293 Founding of Majapahit — 14 years earlier
Americas
- c. 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan — 18 years later
Alive at the time
- Marco Polo (aged 53)
- Dante Alighieri (aged 42)
- Edward I Longshanks (aged 68)
- Osman I (aged 49)
- Philip IV the Fair (aged 39)
- Mansa Musa (aged 27)
- Orhan (aged 26)
- Emperor Go-Daigo (aged 19)
- Ivan Kalita (aged 19)
- Ibn Battuta (aged 3)