Year 1317 (MCCCXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe January 9 – The 23-year-old Philip V (the Tall) is hastily crowned at Rheims after the death of his nephew John I (the Posthumous), as king of France (and Philip II as ruler of Navarre). There are demonstrations in Artois, Champagne and Burgundy. The coronation of Philip, instead of his niece Joan II, eldest daughter of his brother Louis X (the Quarrelsome), sets the precedent for the French royal succession (known as the Salic law).Wagner, John. A. (2006). Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War, p. 250. Westport: Greenwood Press. Philip V (the Tall) reorganizes the French army by extending the military obligations of the realm. Each town and castellany is responsible for providing a specified number of fully equipped troops – such as sergeants and infantry militias, while towns in economically advanced areas like Flanders become a major source of men and money. At the same time, the arriére ban (military recruitment) is generally commuted in favour for taxation. November 25 – Treaty of Templin: After ending the war between the Margraviate of Brandenburg and Denmark, Brandenburg is forced to negotiate a truce. King Eric VI, his ally Duke Henry II (the Lion) and Waldemar the Great sign a peace treaty in Templin. Brandenburg agrees to transfer Burg Stargard and Arnsberg castle to Mecklenburg. They also surrender the territories of Schlawe-Stolp, located on the Baltic coast, to Pomerania.Siegfried Schwanz (2002). Kleinzerlang 1752–2002, p. 15. Edition Rieger. . December 10–11 – King Birger Magnusson has his brothers, Duke's Eric Magnusson and Valdemar Magnusson, captured and thrown into a dungeon during the Nyköping Banquet – as a revenge for their imprisonment of him in the Håtuna games (see 1306). As the brothers soon starve to death in the dungeon, their followers rebel against Birger, throwing Sweden into civil war. A Hungarian document mentions for the first time Basarab I as leader of Wallachia (historians estimate he was on the throne since about 1310). Basarab will become the first voivode of Wallachia as an independent state, and founder of the House of Basarab (until 1352). By topic Catastrophe The Great Famine of 1315–1317 comes to an end. Crop harvests return to normal – but it will be another five years before food supplies are completely replenished in Northern Europe.