1327

Year 1327 (MCCCXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1327 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1327
MCCCXXVII
Ab urbe condita2080
Armenian calendar776
ԹՎ ՉՀԶ
Assyrian calendar6077
Balinese saka calendar1248–1249
Bengali calendar734
Berber calendar2277
English Regnal year20 Edw. 2  1 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar1871
Burmese calendar689
Byzantine calendar6835–6836
Chinese calendar丙寅年 (Fire Tiger)
4023 or 3963
     to 
丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit)
4024 or 3964
Coptic calendar1043–1044
Discordian calendar2493
Ethiopian calendar1319–1320
Hebrew calendar5087–5088
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1383–1384
 - Shaka Samvat1248–1249
 - Kali Yuga4427–4428
Holocene calendar11327
Igbo calendar327–328
Iranian calendar705–706
Islamic calendar727–728
Japanese calendarKaryaku 2
(嘉暦2年)
Javanese calendar1238–1240
Julian calendar1327
MCCCXXVII
Korean calendar3660
Minguo calendar585 before ROC
民前585年
Nanakshahi calendar−141
Thai solar calendar1869–1870
Tibetan calendar阳火虎年
(male Fire-Tiger)
1453 or 1072 or 300
     to 
阴火兔年
(female Fire-Rabbit)
1454 or 1073 or 301

Events

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.[1]

Births

  • 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)

Deaths

  • 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)[2]
  • 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[3]
  • 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

In literature

  • The action of Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose (Il Nome della Rosa, 1980) takes place during this year.

References

  1. "How to Downsize a Transport Network: The Chinese Wheelbarrow". LOW-TECH MAGAZINE.
  2. "Edward II of England: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  3. "Undiscovered Scotland: Timeline of Scottish History: 1300 to 1350". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
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