1330s

The 1330s was a decade of the Julian Calendar which began on January 1, 1330, and ended on December 31, 1339.

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Events

1330

January–December
  • July 28 – Battle of Velbazhd: The Bulgarians under Tsar Michael Shishman (who is mortally wounded) are beaten by the Serbs. Bulgaria does not lose any territory to Serbia, but is powerless to stop the Serbian advance towards the predominantly Bulgarian-populated Macedonia.
  • October 19 – King Edward III of England starts his personal reign, arresting his regent Roger Mortimer, and having him executed.
  • November 9–12 – Battle of Posada: The Wallachians, under Basarab I, defeat the Hungarians, though heavily outnumbered, thus making a firm statement towards the independence of Wallachia.
  • December 6 – The British Isles are hit by a great storm, creating large areas of sand dunes on Anglesey.
  • Undated – Vilnius, Lithuania receives its coat-of-arms, granted to the city in the seventh year of its existence.
  • Undated – Ivan Alexander becomes the despot of Lovech.

1331

September–December

Date unknown
  • The Sieges of Cividale del Friuli and Alicante begin.[1]
  • The Genkō War begins in Japan.
  • Ibn Battuta visits Kilwa.
  • The first recorded outbreak of the Black Death occurs, in the Chinese province of Hubei.

1332

1333

January–December

Date unknown
  • A famine (lasting until 1337) breaks out in China, killing six million.
  • A great famine takes place in Southern Europe. It is known to historians of Catalonia as Lo mal any primer, "the First Bad Year" (equivalent to the Great Famine of 1315–1317 further north), an early notice of the catastrophes of the second half of this century.[5]
  • Jan IV of Dražic, Bishop of Prague, founds a friary and builds a stone bridge at Roudnice in Bohemia.
  • The Kapellbrücke wooden bridge over the Reuss in Lucerne (Switzerland) is built; by the 20th century it will be the world's oldest truss bridge and Europe's oldest covered bridge.
  • The Venetian historian Marino Sanudo Torsello publishes his History of the realm of Romania (Istoria del regno di Romania), one of the most important sources on the history of Latin Greece.[6]

1334

January–December

Date unknown
  • Autumn – Battle of Adramyttion: A Christian league defeats the fleet of the Turkish Beylik of Karasi.

1335

January–December
  • May 2 – Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia.
  • July 30 – Battle of Boroughmuir: John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray defeats Guy, Count of Namur in Scotland.
  • November 30 – Battle of Culblean: David Bruce defeats Edward Balliol in Scotland.
  • December 1 – Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan dies, a victim of the plague that ravages the Ilkhanate. This is an early outbreak of the Black Death.[7] His death without a clear heir causes the Ilkhanate to disintegrate.

Date unknown

1336
  • February 25
    • Rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights, 4,000 defenders of Pilėnai, Lithuania commit mass suicide.
    • The Kenmu Restoration ends and the Muromachi period begins in Japan; start of the Nanboku-chō period.
  • April 18 (unconfirmed) – Brothers Harihara and Bukka Raya found the Vijayanagara Empire on the southern part of the Deccan Plateau in South India.[8]
  • April 26 – The Ascent of Mount Ventoux is made by the Italian poet Petrarch: he claims to be the first since classical antiquity to climb a mountain for the view.[9]
  • May 19 – The governor of Baghdad, Oirat 'Ali Padsah, defeats Arpa Ke'un near Maraga, contributing to the disintegration of the Ilkhanate.
  • July 4 – Battle of Minatogawa: Ashikaga Takauji defeats Japanese Imperial forces, under Kusunoki Masashige and Nitta Yoshisada.
  • July 21–22 – Aberdeen, Scotland is burned by the English.[10]
  • September 20 – The reign of Emperor Kōmyō, second of the Ashikaga Pretenders to the Northern Court of Japan, begins.

1337

January–December

Date unknown
  • Bisham Priory is founded in England.
  • The Scaligeri Family loses control of Padua; Alberto della Scala, patron of the music of the Trecento, moves to Verona.
  • Petrarch, "father" of Renaissance humanism, first visits Rome to wander its mysterious ruins, with an eye for aesthetics as well as for history, exciting a renewed interest in Classical civilisation.
  • The Sofia Psalter is produced in Bulgaria.
  • The famine in China, which had lasted since 1332 and killed 6,000,000 comes to an end.

1338

Date unknown

1339

January–December

Date unknown
  • Shams-ud-Din Shah Mir, having defeated Kota Rani, Hindu queen regnant of Kashmir, in battle at Jayapur (modern Sumbal), asks her to marry him, but she commits suicide rather than do so; thus he takes over sole rule of Kashmir, beginning the Muslim Shah Mir Dynasty.
  • All streets in the city of Florence are paved, the first European city in post-Roman times where this has happened.
  • The Moscow Kremlin is first referred to as a kremlin.

Significant people

Births

1330

1331

  • February 16 – Coluccio Salutati, Florentine political leader (d. 1406)
  • April 14 – Jeanne-Marie de Maille, French Roman Catholic saint (b. 1414)
  • April 30 – Gaston III, Count of Foix (d. 1391)
  • October 4 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (d. 1382)
  • date unknown
    • Hamidüddin Aksarayî, Ottoman teacher of Islam (d. 1412)
    • Blanche d'Évreux, queen consort of France (d. 1398)
    • Michael Palaiologos, Byzantine prince
  • probable – Salvestro de' Medici, provost of Florence (d. 1388)

1332

1333

  • date unknown
    • Kan'ami, Japanese noh actor and writer (d. 1384)
    • Helena Kantakouzene, empress consort of Byzantium (d. 1396)
    • Mikhail II of Tver (d. 1399)
    • Peter Parler, German architect (d. 1399)
    • Carlo Zeno, Venetian admiral (d. 1418)

1334

1335

1336

  • April 9 – Timur, founder of the Timurid Empire (d. 1405)
  • July 25 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1404)
  • date unknown
    • Gao Qi, Chinese poet (d. 1374)
    • Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev (died 1406)
  • probable
    • Stefan Uroš V, Emperor of the Serbs (d. 1371)

1337

  • February 25 – Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg, Czech Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1383)
  • date unknown
    • Louis II, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1410)
    • Jean Froissart, historian and courtier from Hainaut (d. 1405)
    • Bianca of Savoy, lady consort of Milan (d. 1387)
    • Jeong Mong-ju, Goryeo diplomat and poet (d. 1392)
    • Robert III of Scotland, second monarch from the House of Stewart to rule Scotland (d. 1406)

1338

  • January 13 – Jeong Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (d. 1392)
  • January 21 – Charles V of France (d. 1380)[19]
  • February 3 – Joanna of Bourbon, queen consort of France (d. 1378)
  • March 23 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan, Northern Court emperor during a conflict between two imperial lines (d. 1374)
  • October 5 – Alexios III of Trebizond (d. 1390)
  • November 29 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (d. 1368)
  • date unknown
    • George de Dunbar, 10th Earl of March (d. 1420)
    • Muhammed V, Sultan of Granada (d. 1391)
    • Niccolò II d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (d. 1388)
    • Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros (d. 1383)
    • Margaret de Stafford (d. 1396)
    • Tvrtko I of Bosnia (d. 1391)

1339

  • July 23 – Louis I, Duke of Anjou (d. 1384)
  • November 1 – Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1365)
  • date unknown
    • Pope Alexander V, Antipope (d. 1410)[20]
    • Erik Magnusson, king of parts of Sweden 1356–1359 (d. 1359)[21]
    • Frederick, Duke of Bavaria-Landshut (d. 1393)
    • Pope Innocent VII (d. 1406)
    • John IV, Duke of Brittany (d. 1399)[22]
    • Juana Manuel of Castile, queen consort of Castile (d. 1381)
    • Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani, Persian Arab encyclopaedist (d. 1414)

Deaths

1330

  • January 13 – Duke Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)
  • January 21 – Joan II, Countess of Burgundy, queen dowager of France (b. 1291)
  • March 19 – Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, son of Edward I and brother of Edward II (executed by Roger Mortimer) (b. 1301)
  • May 3 – Alexios II Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1282)
  • c. July 31 – Tsar Michael Shishman of Bulgaria (b. 1280s?)
  • August 25 – Sir James Douglas, Scottish guerilla leader during the Wars of Scottish Independence (b. 1286)
  • September 28 – Elizabeth of Bohemia, queen consort of Bohemia (b. 1292)
  • November 29 – Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (b. 1287)
  • date unknown
    • Pietro Cavallini, Italian artist (b. 1259)
    • Guillaume Durand, French clergyman
    • Immanuel the Roman, Italian scholar and poet (b. 1270)
    • Maximus Planudes, Byzantine grammarian and theologian
    • Uthman ibn Abi al-Ula, Marinid prince and shaykh al-ghuzat of the Emirate of Granada[23]
The Battle of Posada (November 9–12, 1330) in Chronicon Pictum. The Basarab I of Wallachia's army ambushes Charles Robert of Anjou, king of Hungary and his 30,000-strong invading army. The Vlach (Romanian) warriors roll down rocks over the cliff edges in a place where the Hungarian mounted knights cannot escape from them nor climb the heights to dislodge the attackers.

1331

  • January 14 – Odoric of Pordenone, Italian explorer
  • April 17 – Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford (b. c. 1257)
  • May 12 – Engelbert of Admont, abbot of Admont in Styria
  • October 27 – Abulfeda, Kurdish Syrian historian and geographer (b. 1273)
  • November 11 – Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia (b. c. 1285)
  • December 26 – Philip I, Prince of Taranto, titular Latin Emperor (b. 1278)
  • December 30 – Bernard Gui, French inquisitor (b. 1261 or 1262)
  • date unknown – Matilda of Hainaut, Princess of Achaea (b. 1293)

1332

1333

  • February 7 – Nikko, Japanese priest, founder of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism (b. 1246)
  • March – William of Alnwick, Franciscan friar and theologian
  • March 2 – King Wladyslaw I of Poland (b. 1261)
  • June 6 – William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster (b. 1312)
  • June 18 – Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1312)
  • July 19 (at the Battle of Halidon Hill):
    • John Campbell, Earl of Atholl
    • Alexander Bruce, Earl of Carrick
    • Sir Archibald Douglas
    • Maol Choluim II, Earl of Lennox
    • Kenneth de Moravia, 4th Earl of Sutherland
  • July 28 – Guy VIII of Viennois, Dauphin of Vienne (b. 1309)
  • November 9 – Empress Saionji Kishi of Japan (b. c.1303)
  • October 16 – Antipope Nicholas V
  • date unknown
    • Prince Morikuni, 9th and last shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate in Japan. (b. 1301)
    • Nichimoku, Japanese priest, the 3rd high priest of Taisekiji temple and Nichiren Shoshu (b. 1260)

1334

1335

1336

Emperor Go-Fushimi
  • January 20 – John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford (b. 1306)
  • February 25 – Margiris, Duke of Samogitia
  • March 20 – Maurice Csák, Hungarian Dominican friar (b. c. 1270)[26]
  • May 17 – Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)
  • July 4 – Elizabeth of Portugal, queen consort and saint (b. 1271)
  • September 5 – Charles d'Évreux (b. 1305)
  • date unknown
    • Bernard VIII, Count of Comminges (b. c. 1285)
    • Arpa Ke'un, Ilkhanid ruler
    • Guillaume Pierre Godin, French Dominican philosopher (b. c. 1260)
    • Hugh II of Arborea
    • Ramon Muntaner, Catalan soldier and writer (b. 1270)
    • Cino da Pistoia, Italian poet (b. 1270)
    • Richard of Wallingford, English monk and mathematician (b. 1292)
    • Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din, Ilkhanate politician
    • Turgut Alp, Kayi and Ottoman soldier and commander in-chief (b. 1200) at the age of 136.

1337

  • January 8 – Giotto di Bondone, Italian painter (b. 1267)
  • June 7 – William I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1286)
  • June 15 – Angelo da Clareno, Italian Franciscan and leader of a group of Fraticelli (b. 1247)
  • June 25 – Frederick III of Sicily (b. 1272)
  • June 30 – Eleanor de Clare, politically active English noble (b. 1290)
  • date unknown
    • William Frangipani, Latin Archbishop of Patras
    • Musa I of Mali, ruler of the Malian Empire (b. c.1280)
    • Prince Narinaga, Japanese Shōgun (b. 1326, d. either 1337 or 1344, the sources are contradictory)

1338

  • April 8 – Stephen Gravesend, Bishop of London
  • April 24 – Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat (b. c. 1270)
  • May – John Wishart, Scottish bishop
  • May 5 – Prince Tsunenaga, son of the Japanese Emperor (b. 1324)
  • May 23 – Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel, English noble (b. 1287)
  • June 10 – Kitabatake Akiie, Japanese governor (b. 1318; d. in battle)
  • July – Muhammad Khan, Persian monarch
  • August 4 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk (b. 1300)
  • August 17 – Nitta Yoshisada, Japanese samurai (b. 1301; d. in battle)
  • August 22 – William II, Duke of Athens (b. 1312)
  • December 21 – Thomas Hemenhale, Bishop of Worcester
  • date unknown
    • Alfonso Fadrique, Sicilian noble
    • Awhadi Maraghai, Persian poet
    • Marino Sanuto the Elder, Venetian statesman and geographer (b. c. 1260)
    • Nitta Yoshiaki, Japanese samurai
  • probable – Prince Narinaga, Japanese shōgun (b. 1325)

1339

Emperor Go-Daigo

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