Year in Japan

1303 in Japanese History

1 recorded entry for this year. It falls in the Kamakura period (鎌倉時代, 1185 – 1333).

Era name: Kagen 嘉元 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kagen 嘉元 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from 1303 to 1307

Reading the year 1303 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1303 corresponds to Kagen 嘉元 (year 1 of the era). Years are written with 年 (ねん, nen) — so 1600 appears as 慶長5年, "the fifth year of Keichō".

The year itself is read 1303年 (1303ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 14th century for its neighbours.