    __notoc__ year 1317 (mcccxvii) was a common year starting on saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the julian calendar. == events == === december === * december 10&ndash;december 11 &ndash; king birger of sweden has his brothers, dukes eric and valdemar, captured and thrown into a dungeon during the nykÃ¶ping banquet, as a revenge for their imprisonment of him in the hÃ¥tuna games in 1306. as the dukes soon starve to death in the dungeon, their followers rebel against the king, throwing sweden into civil war, in which the king is deposed in 1318. === date unknown === * the great famine of 1315-1317 comes to an end. * the black death epidemic forms somewhere in southern china, spreading rapidly. * pope john xxii erects the dioceses of luÃ§on, maillezais, and tulle and issues the decretal spondent pariter prohibiting alchemy, but not chemistry (which john himself had studied). == births == * date unknown &ndash; michael 2nd baron poynings, knight (d. 1369) == deaths == * february 7 &ndash; robert, count of clermont, french founder of the house of bourbon (b. 1256) * february 14 &ndash; marguerite of france, queen of edward i of england (b. 1282) * october 8 &ndash; emperor fushimi of japan (b. 1265) * november 28 &ndash; yishan yining, zen monk and writer from china who taught in japan (b. 1247) * date unknown ** william de ros, 2nd baron de ros, claimant to the crown of scotland (b. 1255) ** ramkhamhaeng the great, king of sukhothai (b. 1239) ** madhvacharya, saint (b. 1238) ** boniface of verona ** john i orsini, count of cephalonia == references ==  
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