29 July – remaining Knights Templar in England are dispersed to do penance.[2]
16 August – Parliament presents the Ordinances of 1311 to the King (document dated 5 October; published on 11 October); these substitute the Lord Ordainers for the King as the effective government of the country.[1]
13 January – royal favourite Piers Gaveston, having returned from two months exile on the continent, is reunited, probably at Knaresborough Castle, with Edward II, who on 18 January restores all Gaveston's confiscated lands to him. Edward moves his court to York and prepares to fight rebellious barons.[1]
c. March – the barons, meeting in London, where Gaveston is excommunicated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, plan to capture Gaveston and prevent him from fleeing to Scotland.[4]
4 May – Edward, Isabella and Gaveston are at Newcastle upon Tyne, pursued by Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster and his followers. The royal party flee by ship and land at Scarborough, where Gaveston (with some royal treasure) stays while Edward and Isabella return to York.[4]
19 May – After a 2-week siege of Scarborough Castle, Gaveston surrenders to the earls of Pembroke and Surrey, on the promise that he would not be harmed.[4]
19 June – Lancaster orders the execution of Gaveston, which is carried out in Warwickshire.[1]
22 December – Lancaster and his supporters refuse an offer of pardon from Edward II.[1]
Scottish forces under Robert the Bruce raid as far as Durham.[1]
13 January – Robert the Bruce expels English troops from Perth, Scotland.[5]
20 May – Ordinance of the Staple establishes specific depots through which the English wool trade to Europe must pass.[1]
28 May – Thomas Cobham elected to the Archbishopric of Canterbury.
1 October – Pope Clement V dismisses the election of Thomas Cobham to the Archbishopric of Canterbury having been petitioned to do so by King Edward II. Walter Reynolds enthroned as the Archbishop.
October – Edward II pardons rebellious barons after they publicly apologise.[1]
Robert the Bruce retakes the Isle of Man from the English.[5]
9 August – Treaty of Leake between Edward II and Earl of Lancaster, agreeing on control of administration.[1]
14 October – Anglo-Irish forces defeat a Scots-Irish army at the Battle of Faughart in Ireland. Edward Bruce, brother of Robert the Bruce, is killed in the battle.[5]
^Nicholson, Helen J. (2009). The Knights Templar on Trial: The Trial of the Templars in the British Isles, 1308-11. Stroud: The History Press. pp. 186–7. ISBN978-0-7509-4681-0.