Events By place Europe March 18 (or March 11) – Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar and Geoffroy de Charney, are by orders of King Philip IV (the Fair) taken to an island on the River Seine and burned at the stake in front of Notre-Dame de Paris. Jacques declares his innocence and that the Templar Order is also innocent of all the charges of heresy. It is said that Jacques predicts the deaths of both Philip and Pope Clement V within the year. March – Tour de Nesle Affair: Philip IV (the Fair) orders the arrest of his wife Margaret of Burgundy, who is convicted of adultery and is imprisoned together with her sister-in-law Blanche of Burgundy in Château Gaillard. August 31 – King Haakon V (Magnusson) moves his capital from Bergen to Oslo – where he builds Akershus Fortress, from which Norway is ruled for the next 500 years. Haakon expands his reign from the new capital. October 19 – The 25-year-old Frederick the Fair of the House of Habsburg is elected King of the Romans at Sachsenhausen (Frankfurt am Main), by four of the electors and is crowned at Bonn Minster on November 25. October 20 – Louis IV (the Bavarian) of the House of Wittelsbach is elected King of the Romans at Sachsenhausen during an imperial election and is crowned at Aachen. Civil war breaks out in the Holy Roman Empire. November 29 – Philip IV (the Fair) dies during a hunting accident at Fontainebleau – which is possibly affected by the Tour de Nesle Affair. He is succeeded by his son, Louis X (the Quarrelsome), as ruler of France. Stephen II becomes ruler (ban) of Bosnia following the death of his father Stephen I (Kotromanić). He rules the lands from the River Sava to the Adriatic Sea, but does not effectively begin to rule until 1322. England June 17 – English forces led by King Edward II leave Berwick to march to Stirling Castle. They cross the River Tweed at Wark and Coldstream and march west across the flat Merse of Berwickshire towards Lauderdale. In Earlston, Edward uses a road through the Lammermuir Hills (an old Roman road) practical for the wheeled transport of a long supply train as well as the cavalry and infantry. June 19 – English forces march to the environs of Edinburgh, here Edward II waits for the