The king, at Westminster on May 20,…

The autobiographical Confessions of Lady Nijo, written in 1306 by the imperial consort, continues the classical Japanese literary style.

At the age of fourteen, she had been given by her father to Gofukakusa, the Emperor of Japan, to become his consort.

Later, she was expelled from the Emperor's court and became a traveling Buddhist nun, journeying for twenty years in Japan.

Books 1-3 cover Nijo's time at court; Books 4 and 5 deal with her life and travels as a nun.

The first books show a naive, though outwardly sophisticated, adolescent and young woman.

The last books show a wiser woman reflecting on her life and responding to the "common" people she meets and the tales she hears. (The Confessions of Lady Nijo was not widely circulated after it was written and only a single manuscript has survived. It was discovered in 1940 by a scholar named Yamagishi Tohukei and was published in 1950. A complete annotated edition was published in 1966.)

Otto is no more able to strengthen his rule over Hungary than is Charles.

In the course of 1306, Charles occupies Esztergom, …

…Spiš Castle, …

…Zvolen and some other fortresses in the northern parts of the kingdom.

Wenceslas III, having abandoned his claim to the Hungarian throne, also has difficulty asserting his authority at home and elsewhere.

Marching from Bohemia to claim the Polish throne inherited from his father, the seventeen-year-old monarch is assassinated in 1306 at the Moravian city of Olomouc.

The Premyslide dynasty ends with his murder.

King Albert had failed in his attempt to seize Holland and Zeeland, as vacant fiefs of the Empire, on the death of Count John I in 1299, but in 1306 he secures the crown of Bohemia for his son Rudolph on the death of King Wenceslaus III.

He also renews the claim made by his predecessor, Adolf, on Thuringia, and interferes in a quarrel over the succession to the Hungarian throne.

Theodore Svetoslav gains the services in 1306 of Constantinople’s rebellious Alan mercenaries, whom he settles in Bulgaria, and makes unsuccessful overtures to the mercenaries of the Catalan Company, who have also rebelled against their imperial employers.

The Empire, having made enemies of the Catalan mercenaries formerly in their employ, come under constant attack by the Ottomans, who establish a chain of fortified posts and encircle several of the empire’s cities, including Bursa and …

...Nicomedia.

The Mongols return to India again in 1306, crossing the Indus near Multan and moving towards the Himalayas when Ghazi Malik (who is now the governor of the Punjab) intercepts them.

About fifty thousand Mongols are made prisoners, including Kubak, their leader.

Alauddin Khilji puts them all to death and sells their wives and children as slaves.