* 1309 – The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes.

Eventually, in 1309, Pope Clement V even left Rome and relocated to the French city of Avignon, beginning the era known as the Avignon Papacy ( or, more disparagingly, the " Babylonian captivity ").

In March 1309, the entire papal court moved from Poitiers ( where it had remained for 4 years ) to the Comtat Venaissin, around the city of Avignon, which was not then part of France, but an imperial fief held by the King of Sicily.

Often referred to as the " City of Popes " because of the presence of popes and antipopes from 1309 to 1423 during the Catholic schism, it is currently the largest city and capital of the département of Vaucluse.

In 1309 the city, still part of the Kingdom of Arles, was chosen by Pope Clement V as his residence, and from 9 March 1309 until 13 January 1377 was the seat of the Papacy instead of Rome.

In 1309 the town was under the rule of the Teutonic Knights, who during the first half of the fourteenth century fortified Chojnice, expanded the area belonging to the city and eventually released in the year 1360 a new foundation document.

The King Charles I of Hungary was crowned in May 1301 with a provisional crown in Esztergom by the Archbishop of this city, that lead to his second coronation in June 1309.

When Rakrian Kuti, one of the officials in Majapahit, rebelled against the Majapahit king Jayanegara ( ruled 1309 – 1328 ) in 1321, Gajah Mada and the then-mahapatih Arya Tadah helped the king and his family to escape the capital city of Trowulan.

He was, like most Grand Princes of Vladimir, accepted as Prince of Novgorod the Great in 1309, but fought with Novgorod, going so far as to withdraw his lieutenants ( namestniki ) and cut off grain shipments into the city in 1312.

In 1309, he appointed David as Archbishop of Novgorod and David was instrumental in the argument that led Mikhail to withdraw his lieutenants and cut the grain supplies to the city.

The city is also notable as the birthplace of Blessed Angela of Foligno ( 1248 – 1309 ).

Until 1309, Boppard was a free imperial city, and as such was often frequented by the German kings, who would then reside at the so-called Royal Estate.

1309 – 26 May 1339 ) was the Queen of Poland ( 1333 – 1339 ), and the Princess of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

He was the second Pope of the Avignon Papacy ( 1309 – 1377 ), elected by a conclave in Lyon assembled by King Philip V of France.

This period from 1309 – 1377 – the Avignon Papacy – was also called the Babylonian Captivity of exile, in reference to the Israelites ' enslavement in biblical times.

The Avignon Papacy was the period from 1309 to 1376 during which seven Popes resided in Avignon, in modern-day France.

John the Blind ( Luxembourgish: < span lang =" lb "> Jang de Blannen </ span >; German: < span lang =" de "> Johann der Blinde von Luxemburg </ span >; Czech: < span lang =" cz "> Jan Lucemburský </ span >) ( 10 August 1296 – 26 August 1346 ) was the Count of Luxembourg from 1309 and King of Bohemia from 1310 and titular King of Poland.

Year 1309 ( MCCCIX ) was a common year starting on Wednesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

In 1309, Pope Clement V, who was originally from Bordeaux, moved the Roman Catholic Papacy to Avignon.

According to 14th century historiography ( Cronica de Berno, 1309 ), Bern was founded in 1191 by Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen.

Haarlem was granted its first known indulgence by Clement V in 1309, during the Avignon Papacy.

The same name was also used by Florentines, such as the poet Fazio degli Uberti ( circa 1309 – 1367 ), the famous chronicler Giovanni Villani ( c. 1275 – 1348 ), and Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313 – 1375 ), who wrote that the Brenta River rises from the mountains of Carantania, a land in the Alps dividing Italy from Germany.

In 1155 the Premonstratensians established a monastery in Grobe, generally known as Usedom Abbey, which in 1309 was moved to the village of Pudagla.

Tczew was purchased by Heinrich von Plötzke of the Teutonic Knights following the Treaty of Soldin in 1309.

Historically, the transformation from a small church to the equivalent of a mainland European cathedral was begun in 1309 under Sir John Truesdale, Vicar of St. Botolph's at a time of historical change and upheaval across the continent and England following the arrests of the Templar's by Phillippe the Fair of France on Friday 13 October 1307.

The existing church was begun in 1309, in the usual way, at the east end.

The work was therefore written between 1305 and 1309.

The population was 1309 at the 2010 census.

The first mention of the monastery of the Franciscan Friars Minor, the Minderbroederklooster, was in 1309.

Schijndel was founded on the 6th of December in the year 1309.

In 1309, Afonso IV married Infanta Beatrice of Castile, daughter of King Sancho IV of Castile by his wife Maria de Molina.

* 1309 – Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.

After the papacy had been removed to Avignon in 1309, Pope Clement V consented to a post-mortem trial by an ecclesiastical consistory at Groseau, near Avignon, which held preliminary examinations in August and September 1310.

In March 1309, he held his first Parliament at St. Andrews, and by August, he controlled all of Scotland north of the River Tay.

The palace and gardens were built during the reign of Muhammad III ( 1302 – 1309 ) and redecorated shortly after by Abu I-Walid Isma ' il ( 1313 – 1324 ).

Gaveston eventually returned from Ireland, and by 1309 – 11 the three seemed to be co-existing together relatively comfortably.

The frontispiece of an Adelard of Bath Latin translation of Euclid's Elements, c. 1309 – 1316 ; the oldest surviving Latin translation of the Elements is a 12th-century translation by Adelard from an Arabic version.

* First Siege of Gibraltar ( 1309 ) – Siege of Gibraltar, by Juan Alfonso de Guzman el Bueno in the Reconquista

Nevertheless, by 25 April 1309, Pope Clement V was satisfied that the difficulties between the king and his magnates had been settled, and agreed to lift the interdict against Gaveston.

After being held by the family of De Vesci ( of which the modern rendering is Vasey – a name found all over south-east Northumberland ) for over two hundred years, it passed into the hands of the house of Percy in 1309.

In 1309 he purchased the barony of Alnwick from Bek, and it has been owned by the Percy family, the Earls and later Dukes of Northumberland since.

The Augustinian Hermits, while following the rule known as that of St. Augustine, are also subject to the Constitutions, first drawn up by Augustinus Novellus ( d. 1309 ), Prior General of the Order from 1298 to 1300, and by Clement of Osimo.

He died in Naples in May 1309, and was succeeded by his son Robert the Wise.