1320s

The 1320s was a decade of the Julian Calendar which began on January 1, 1320, and ended on December 31, 1329.

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Events

1320

JanuaryDecember

Date unknown

  • Ghiyas al-Din Tughlaq founds the Tughlaq Dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.
  • The Venetian Arsenal is rebuilt, as the Arsenal Nuovo.
  • The Second Shepherds' Crusade begins.
  • Dante's Quaestio de Aqua et Terra is published.
  • In England, many horses die of a disease called "Ffarsine".[1]
  • The Byzantine governor in the Morea, Andronikos Asen, captures the Frankish castles of Akova, Karytaina and St. George, securing control over Arcadia and Cynuria.

1321

JanuaryDecember

  • c. MayJune Leper scare: Rumours that lepers (acting on the orders of Jews bribed by Moors) are attempting to poison the Christian population spread throughout southern France.
  • August 14 King Edward II of England reluctantly agrees to demands from his barons to send Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester, and his son Hugh Despenser the Younger into exile.[2]
  • October 29 King Stephen Uroš II Milutin of Serbia dies. His son Stephen Constantine claims the throne, but Constantine's younger half-brother Stephen Uroš III Dečanski succeeds.

Date unknown

  • The Byzantine civil war of 1321–28 begins, when Andronikos III Palaiologos initiates an uprising against Andronikos II Palaiologos.[3]
  • A bad harvest brings famine in Europe.
  • The Anatolian beylik of Teke is established.
  • Gračanica monastery in Kosovo is rebuilt by the Serbian king Stefan Milutin.
  • Spitakavor Monastery is completed in Armenia.
  • The University of Florence is established.[4]
  • The Kebra Negast is translated from Arabic to Ge'ez, according to its colophon.

1322

JanuaryDecember

1323

JanuaryDecember

Date unknown

1324

  • 23 MarchPope John XXII excommunicates German king Louis IV, as Louis had not sought papal approval during his conflict with Frederick the Fair. Louis in turn declares the pope a heretic, because of John's opposition against the view of Christ's absolute poverty held by some Franciscans.

Date unknown

  • Marsilius of Padua writes his defence of the secular state, Defensor pacis.
  • Emperor Musa I of Mali arrives in Cairo on his hajj to Mecca, accompanied by an entourage numbering in the thousands, and with hundreds of pounds of gold. This display of wealth garners the Mali Empire a place on European maps in 1395. On his return journey, he peacefully annexes Timbuktu. He is said to have told the Arabic historian Al-Umari that "his predecessors had launched two expeditions from West Africa to discover the limits of the Atlantic Ocean."

1325

JanuaryDecember

  • January 7 Afonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
  • February Muhammad bin Tughluq succeeds his father Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq, as Sultan of Delhi.
  • July War of the Bucket breaks out: Modena makes incursions into the territory of Bologna.
  • November 15 Battle of Zappolino: Modena defeats Bologna.

Date unknown

1326

JanuaryDecember

Date unknown

1327

JanuaryDecember

  • January 25 The 14-year-old Edward III is proclaimed King of England, after his mother Isabella has engineered the abdication of his imprisoned father Edward II of England, on January 20, effective January 25. Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer rule as regents (the coronation takes place February 1).
  • April 6 (Good Friday) Tuscan writer Petrarch sees a woman he names Laura in the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon, which awakes in him a lasting passion. He writes a series of sonnets and other poems in Italian dedicated to her, which are collected into Il Canzoniere, an influential model for Renaissance culture.
  • June 14 A peace treaty is signed between Norway and Sønderjylland.
  • June 21 Ingeborg of Norway marries her lover Knud Porse, but is deposed from political power in Norway.
  • November Alfonso IV of Aragon begins his reign.

Date unknown

  • English abbot Richard of Wallingford describes the construction of an astronomical clock in his Tractatus Horologii Astronomici.
  • Grand Canal (China), which ran from Hangzhou to Beijing over a distance of 1800 km, was completed.[8]

1328

1329

JanuaryDecember

Date unknown

Significant people

Births

1320

  • April 8 King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)
  • date unknown
    • Blanka of Namur, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1363)
    • Chen Youliang, founder of the Great Han regime (d. 1363)
    • John Hawkwood, English mercenary (d. 1394)
    • Iolo Goch, Welsh poet (d. 1398)
    • Shams al-Dīn Abū Abd Allāh al-Khalīlī, Arab astronomer (d. 1380)
    • Lalleshwari, Hindu poet (d. 1392)
    • Louis of Taranto (d. 1362)
    • Michael Panaretos, chronicler of Trebizond (d. 1390)
    • Nissim of Gerona, Talmudist and authority in Jewish law (d. 1380)
    • Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (d. 1398)
    • Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1346)
    • Ukhaantu Khan, Emperor Huizong of Yuan, emperor of the Yuan Dynasty (d. 1370)
    • William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester (d. 1404)
  • probable
    • Bertrand du Guesclin, Breton knight (d. 1380)
    • King Valdemar IV of Denmark (d. 1375)
    • John Wycliffe, English reformer (d. 1384)
  • approximate date
    • Turisanus, Florentine physician

1321

  • February 5 John II, Marquess of Montferrat (d. 1372)
  • July 5 Joan of The Tower, queen consort of Scotland (d. 1362)
  • August 29 John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387)
  • date unknown
    • James I, Count of Urgell
    • Khwaja Bande Nawaz, Sufi saint (d. 1422)
  • probable Emperor John III of Trebizond (d. 1362)

1322

  • January 11 Emperor Kōmyō of Japan (d. 1380)
  • February 12 John Henry, Margrave of Moravia (d. 1375)
  • June 24 Joanna, Duchess of Brabant (d. 1406)
  • date unknown
    • Blessed Imelda Lambertini, Italian patroness of First Communion (d. 1333)
    • King Michael Asen IV of Bulgaria (d. 1355)

1323

  • February 9 Margaret of Brabant, Countess of Flanders (d. 1380)
  • Charles, Duke of Durazzo, Neapolitan noble (d. 1348)
  • Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan, Italian soldier and statesman (d. 1385)
  • Latest likely date Constanza Manuel, queen consort of Castile (d. 1345)

1324

  • March 5 King David II of Scotland (d. 1371)[11]
  • date unknown
    • Prince Dmitry of Suzdal (d. 1383)
    • Louis of Durazzo, Count of Gravina and Morrone (d. 1362)
    • Constance of Sicily, princess regent of Sicily (d. 1355)
    • Giovanni Manfredi, lord of Faenza (d. 1373)
    • Prince Tsunenaga, Japanese imperial prince (d. 1338)
  • probable Manuel II, Emperor of Trebizond (d. 1333)

1325

  • May 12 Rupert II, Elector Palatine (d. 1398)
  • date unknown
    • John Wycliffe, English "Morning star of the Reformation" (d. 1384)
    • Hafiz al-Iraqi, Islamic scholar (d. 1403)
    • Inês de Castro, lover of King Pedro I of Portugal (d. 1355)
    • Margaret the Barefooted, Italian saint (d. 1395)
    • Matthew Kantakouzenos, Emperor of Byzantium
    • Pandolfo II Malatesta, Italian condottiero (d. 1373)
  • probable Francesco Landini, Florentine organist and composer (d. 1397)

1326

  • March 5 King Louis I of Hungary (d. 1382)[12]
  • March 30 Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Muscovy (d. 1359)[13]
  • May 1 Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor Ningzong of Yuan (d. 1332)
  • May 8 Joanna I of Auvergne, queen consort of France (d. 1360)
  • June 29 Murad I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1389)
  • date unknown
    • Olivier de Clisson (The Butcher), French soldier (d. 1407)
    • Robert of Durazzo, Neapolitan nobleman (d. 1356)
    • Prince Narinaga, Japanese Shōgun (d. in either 1337 or 1344, the sources are contradictory)
    • Imagawa Sadayo, Japanese poet and soldier (d. 1420)
    • Isaac ben Sheshet, Spanish Talmudic authority (d. 1408)
  • probable
    • Manuel Kantakouzenos, despot of Morea (d. 1380)
    • Seii, King of Chuzan (d. 1349)
    • Simeon Uroš, self-proclaimed Emperor of Serbs and Greeks (d. 1370)

1327

  • June Malatesta Ungaro, Italian condottiero (d. 1372)
  • October 30 Andrew, Duke of Calabria (d. 1345)
  • date unknown
    • Charles de La Cerda, Franco-Spanish soldier (d. 1354)
    • Elizabeth le Despenser, Baroness Berkeley, English noble (d. 1389)
    • Demetrius I Starshy, Prince of Trubczewsk (d. 1399)
    • Birger Gregersson, Archbishop of Uppsala (d. 1383)
    • Baldus de Ubaldis, Italian jurist (d. 1400)
  • probable William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, Scottish nobleman (d. 1384)

1328

  • April 1 Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans (d. 1393)
  • May 7 Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1365)
  • June 25 William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)
  • September 29 Joan of Kent, princess of Wales, spouse of Edward the Black Prince (d. 1385)
  • October 9 King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
  • October 21 Hongwu Emperor of China (d. 1398)
  • November 11 Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (d. 1360)
  • November 25 Antipope Benedict XIII, born Pedro Martínez de Luna (d. 1423)
  • date unknown
    • Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas ("Archibald the Grim", "Black Archibald"), Scottish magnate and warrior (d. 1400)
    • Emperor Go-Murakami of Japan (d. 1368)

1329

Deaths

1320

  • January 12 John Dalderby, Bishop of Lincoln[14]
  • January 21 Árni Helgason, Icelandic bishop (b. c. 1260)
  • February 7 Jan Muskata, Bishop of Kraków (b. 1250)
  • March 1 Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan, Emperor Renzong of Yuan (b. 1286)
  • May 29 Pope John VIII of Alexandria, Coptic pope
  • July 20 King Oshin of Armenia (b. 1282)
  • October 12 Michael IX Palaiologos, Byzantine co-emperor (b. 1277)
  • October 31 Ricold of Monte Croce, Italian Dominican missionary (b. 1242)
  • date unknown
    • Blessed Margaret of Castello, patron of the poor, crippled, and unwanted (b. 1287)
    • Qutb ud din Mubarak Shah, last Khilji ruler of India
    • Radulphus Brito, French grammarian
    • Filippo Tesauro, Italian painter (b. 1260)
    • Yasa'ur, Chagatai prince
  • probable Geoffrey of Paris, French chronicler

1321

  • January 12 or 1322 Maria of Brabant, queen consort of Philip III of France (b. 1256)
  • January 13 Bonacossa Borri, Lady of Milan (b. 1254)
  • February 25 Beatrice d'Avesnes, consort of Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg
  • March 18 Matthew III Csák, Hungarian oligarch (b. c.1260/5)
  • April 8 Thomas of Tolentino, Italian Franciscan missionary, martyred (b. c. 1255)
  • April 17 Infanta Blanche of Portugal, daughter of King Afonso III of Portugal and Urraca of Castile (b. 1259)
  • April 27 Nicolò Albertini, Italian cardinal statesman (b. c. 1250)
  • May 31 Birger, King of Sweden (b. 1280)
  • July 1 María de Molina, queen consort of Castile (b. c. 1265)
  • September 14 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (b. 1265)[15]
  • October 29 Stefan Milutin, King of Serbia (b. c. 1253)
  • November 9 Walter Langton, bishop of Lichfield and treasurer of England (b. 1243)
  • date unknown
    • Marianus III of Arborea, Giudice
    • Mubarak Khan, Khilji regent, murdered
    • Reginald of Burgundy, Count of Montbéliard
    • Witte van Haemstede, Dutch prince (b. 1280/2)
  • probable Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi, Arab mathematician (b. 1256)

1322

  • January 3 King Philip V of France (b. 1293)
  • January 10 Petrus Aureolus, scholastic philosopher
  • March 16 Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1276)
  • March 22 Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1278)
  • April 14 Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere, English soldier (b. 1275)
  • April 20 Blessed Simon Rinalducci, Italian Augustinian friar
  • April 22 Francis of Fabriano, Italian writer (b. 1251)
  • August 10 John of La Verna, Italian ascetic (b. 1259)
  • August 25 Beatrice of Silesia, queen consort of Germany (b. c. 1292)
  • September 14 Joan of Lusignan, Dame de Lusignan (approximate date)
  • September 17 Robert III, Count of Flanders (b. 1249)
  • December 3 Maud Chaworth, Countess of Leicester (b. 1282)
  • date unknown
    • Ma Duanlin, Chinese historian (b. 1245)
    • Bertha van Heukelom, Dutch heroine
    • Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria, emperor of Bulgaria
    • Zhao Mengfu, Chinese scholar, painter and calligrapher (b. 1254)

1323

  • March 3 Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English military leader
  • August Isabella of Burgundy, Queen of Germany (b. 1270)
  • September 4 Gegeen Khan, Emperor Yingzong of Yuan (b. 1303)
  • October 16 Amadeus V, Count of Savoy (b. 1249)
  • date unknown
    • King Andrew of Galicia, with his brother Leo II
    • King Leo II of Galicia, with his brother Andrew (both died fighting Mongol-Tatars) (possibly Lithuanians)

1324

Emperor Go-Uda
  • January 8 or January 9 Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)
  • February 11 Karl von Trier, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
  • March 26 Marie de Luxembourg, Queen of France (b. 1304) (carriage accident)
  • June 23 Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (b. c.1275)
  • July 16 Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1265)
  • August 16 or August 17 Irene of Brunswick, Empress of Constantinople (b. c. 1293)
  • August 31 Henry II of Jerusalem (b. 1271)
  • November 1 John de Halton, Bishop of Carlisle
  • November 3 Petronilla de Meath, Irish servant and suspected witch (burned at stake)
  • date unknown
    • Dino Compagni, Italian historian (b. c. 1255)
    • Hedwig of Holstein, queen consort of Sweden (b. 1260)
    • King Sancho of Majorca (b. 1274)

1325

  • January 7 King Dinis of Portugal (b. 1261)
  • April 3 Nizamuddin Auliya, Sufi saint (b. 1238)
  • June 6 or July 6 Ismail I, Sultan of Granada (b. 1279) (assassinated)
  • November 21 Yury of Moscow, Prince of Moscow and Vladimir
  • December 16 Charles, Count of Valois, son of Philip III of France (b. 1270)
  • date unknown
    • Amir Khusrow, Persian language poet (b. 1253)
    • Francis of Mayrone, French philosopher (b. c. 1280)
    • Saint Nikodim I, Serbian archbishop
    • Princess Joguk, Korean princess (b. 1308)
    • Thomas de Dundee, Bishop of Ross

1326

  • January 18 Robert FitzWalter, 1st Baron FitzWalter, English baron (b. 1247)
  • February 28 Leopold I, Duke of Austria (b. 1290)
  • March 26 Alessandra Giliani, Italian anatomist (b. c. 1307)
  • April 29 Blanche of Burgundy, former queen consort of France (b. c. 1296)
  • May 31 Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley, English rebel baron (b. 1271)
  • July 29 Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster (b. 1259)
  • October 15 Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (b. 1261)
  • October 27 Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester (executed; b. 1262)
  • November 17 Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
  • November 25 Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shōgun (b. 1264)
  • November 24 Hugh the younger Despenser, English knight (executed; b. 1286)
  • December 20 Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow
  • December 28 Sir David II Strathbogie, Earl of Atholl, Constable of Scotland, and Chief Warden of Northumberland
  • date unknown

1327

  • January 16 Nikephoros Choumnos, Byzantine scholar and statesman (b. 1250 or 1255)
  • January 29 Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine (b. 1300)
  • March 15 Albert of Schwarzburg, German grand preceptor of the Knights Hospitaller
  • April 9 Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland (b. 1293)
  • May 28 Robert Baldock, Lord Privy Seal and Lord Chancellor of England
  • May 29 Jens Grand, Danish archbishop (b. c. 1260)
  • July 4 Stefano Visconti, Milanese nobleman
  • August 25 Demasq Kaja, Ilkhanate member of the Chobanid Family
  • September 1 Foulques de Villaret, French Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
  • September 21 King Edward II of England (murdered; b. 1284)[16]
  • September 26 Cecco d'Ascoli, Italian encyclopaedist, physician and poet (b. 1257)
  • October 20 Teresa d'Entença, Countess of Urgell (b. 1300)
  • October 27 Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert the Bruce[17]
  • November Chupan, Chobanid prince of the Ilkhanate
  • November 2 or November 5 King James II of Aragon (b. 1267)
  • December 19 Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
  • date unknown
    • Thomas Cobham, Bishop of Worcester
    • Constantine I of Imereti
    • David of Hrodna, Lithuanian military leader
    • Vital du Four, French theologian (b. 1260)
    • Walter Reynolds, Archbishop of Canterbury
    • Sir Richard de Exeter, Anglo-Irish knight
  • probable Bartholomew of Lucca, Italian historian

1328

1329

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