Historical Events
William Wallace Captured
Aug 5 Scottish resistance leader William Wallace is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution
Scottish History
Aug 23 Scottish patriot William Wallace is executed for high treason by Edward I of England at Smithfield, London
Born in 1305
- Aug 18 Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese founder and 1st shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate (1338-58), born in Ashikaga, Japan (d. 1358)
Died in 1305
- Mar 7 Guy of Dampierre, Count of Flanders and count of Namur, dies in a French prison at 78
- Apr 2 Joan I, Queen of Navarre, Countess of Champagne and Queen of France by marriage to King Philip IV, dies allegedly in childbirth at 32
- Jun 21 Wenceslaus II, King of Bohemia & Poland (1278-1305), dies, likely of tuberculosis, at 33
William Wallace (c. 1270-1305)
Aug 23 disemboweled and beheaded at Smithfield, London
Philip IV of France
Temür Khan