1320s

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

Events

1320

January–December[]

  • January 20 – Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland.
  • April 6 – The Scots reaffirm their independence, by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
  • September 9Battle of Saint George: The Byzantines under Andronikos Asen ambush and defeat the forces of the Principality of Achaea, securing possession of Arcadia.

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

January–December[]

  • c. MayJuneLeper 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

January–December[]

  • January 6Stephen Uroš III Dečanski is crowned King of Serbia, having defeated his half-brother Stefan Konstantin in battle.
  • February 13
    • The central tower of Ely Cathedral in England falls, on the night of February 12th-13th.
    • The Dalmatian house of Keglević (generatio Percal) is for the first time mentioned in a document.
  • March 10Despenser War - Battle of Burton Bridge: Edward II of England drives off rebel forces.
  • March 16Battle of Boroughbridge: Edward II of England defeats several rebellious barons.
  • June 24Jews are expelled from France for the third time.
  • September 28Battle of Mühldorf: Bavaria defeats Austria.
  • October 8Mladen II Šubić of Bribir, defeated in the battle of Bliska, is arrested by the Parliament.
  • October 14First War of Scottish Independence - Battle of Old Byland: Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats English troops in North Yorkshire.

1323

January–December[]

  • March 6Treaty of Paris: Louis I, Count of Flanders relinquishes his claim to Zeeland.
  • July 18Thomas Aquinas is canonized.[5]
  • August 12 – The Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and the Novgorod Republic is signed, regulating the border for the first time.

Date unknown[]

  • The first Great Black Death epidemic spreads through southern parts of Asia, killing 50 million people by 1353.
  • Lithuania: In the Letters of Gediminas, Vilnius is named as the capital city.
  • Remains of the Lighthouse of Alexandria (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) are toppled by the third of a series of earthquakes.
  • A conflict between Ingeborg of Norway, and the regencies of her son in Sweden and Norway, ends with the diminution of her power.

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

January–December[]

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

Date unknown[]

  • The town of Bolu is conquered by the Ottoman Empire.
  • Ibn Battuta begins his travels.
  • Mansa Musa completes his pilgrimage to Mecca.

1326

January–December[]

  • January 21 – The foundation of Oriel College, the University of Oxford's fifth oldest (still surviving) college, is confirmed by royal charter.
  • February 10March 11Raid on Brandenburg: Allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland, led by Władysław I the Elbow-high, and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led by the pagan Gediminas, raid Louis V of Germany's Margraviate of Brandenburg (within the Holy Roman Empire), with the sanction of Pope John XXII.
  • April 19 – A peace treaty in the Flemish peasant revolt, 1323-1328, is ratified.
  • June 3 – The Treaty of Novgorod delineates the border between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
  • August 27 – A marriage contract is drawn up between Prince Edward (the future Edward III of England) and Philippa of Hainault, guaranteeing that the wedding will take place within two years.[6]
  • September 24England is invaded by Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer.[7]
  • OctoberIbn Battuta reaches Mecca.

Date unknown[]

  • Orhan I succeeds Osman I, on the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
  • Ingeborg of Norway is deposed from political power in Sweden.
  • The use of the word "cannon" is first recorded in reference to a firearm.
  • Clare College, the University of Cambridge's second oldest (still surviving) college, is founded.

1327

January–December[]

  • 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 21Ingeborg of Norway marries her lover Knud Porse, but is deposed from political power in Norway.
  • NovemberAlfonso IV of Aragon begins his reign.

1328

  • January 24Philippa of Hainault marries King Edward III of England a year after his coronation.[8] The marriage produces ten children, the eldest of whom is Edward the Black Prince.
  • May 1Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton: England recognises Scotland as an independent nation, after the Wars of Scottish Independence.
  • May 12Antipope Nicholas V is consecrated at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome by the bishop of Venice.
  • May 26William of Ockham secretly leaves Avignon, under threat from Pope John XXII.
  • May 29 – King Philip VI of France is crowned, founding the House of Valois, after the death of King Charles IV of France, who has no sons to inherit.
  • August 23Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
  • Undated – The Augustiner-Bräu is first recorded as the brewery of an Augustinian monastery at Munich.[9]

1329

January–December[]

  • February 1 – King John of Bohemia (of the Teutonic Order) captures Medvėgalis, an important fortress of the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and baptizes 6,000 of its defenders.
  • February 18Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia, begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces (possibly in 1332).
  • March 27Pope John XXII condemns some teachings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
  • AprilAntipope Nicholas V is excommunicated by Pope John XXII.
  • June 6Edward III of England pays homage to Philip VI of France for Aquitaine.
  • June 7David II becomes King of Scots age 5; he will rule Scotland for nearly 42 years.
  • June 10 – Braganstown massacre, County Louth, Ireland: Over 160 are killed.
  • June 11Battle of Maltepe (Pelekanon): Ottoman Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire.

Date unknown[]

  • Aimone of Savoy becomes Count of Savoy.
  • Construction begins on the Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Andrew in Frombork, Poland.
  • Amberg, Germany, passes to the House of Wittelsbach.
  • Michael of Cesena is deposed as General of the Franciscans.
  • Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia defeats Stephen II, Ban of Bosnia.
  • Wiesbaden is granted the right of coinage by Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor.

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 5John II, Marquess of Montferrat (d. 1372)
  • July 5Joan of The Tower, queen consort of Scotland (d. 1362)
  • August 29John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387)
  • date unknown
  • probable – Emperor John III of Trebizond (d. 1362)

1322

1323

1324

1325

  • May 12Rupert 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)
  • probableFrancesco Landini, Florentine organist and composer (d. 1397)

1326

  • March 5 – King Louis I of Hungary (d. 1382)[11]
  • March 30Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Muscovy (d. 1359)[12]
  • May 1Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor Ningzong of Yuan (d. 1332)
  • May 8Joanna I of Auvergne, queen consort of France (d. 1360)
  • June 29Murad 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

1328

1329

Deaths[]

1320

  • January 12John Dalderby, Bishop of Lincoln[13]
  • January 21Árni Helgason, Icelandic bishop (b. c. 1260)
  • February 7Jan Muskata, Bishop of Kraków (b. 1250)
  • March 1Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan, Emperor Renzong of Yuan (b. 1286)
  • May 29Pope John VIII of Alexandria, Coptic pope
  • July 20 – King Oshin of Armenia (b. 1282)
  • October 12Michael IX Palaiologos, Byzantine co-emperor (b. 1277)
  • October 31Ricold 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
  • probableGeoffrey of Paris, French chronicler

1321

  • January 12 or 1322Maria of Brabant, queen consort of Philip III of France (b. 1256)
  • January 13Bonacossa Borri, Lady of Milan (b. 1254)
  • February 25Beatrice d'Avesnes, consort of Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg
  • March 18Matthew III Csák, Hungarian oligarch (b. c.1260/5)
  • April 8Thomas 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 27Nicolò Albertini, Italian cardinal statesman (b. c. 1250)
  • May 31Birger, King of Sweden (b. 1280)
  • July 1María de Molina, queen consort of Castile (b. c. 1265)
  • September 13 or 14Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (b. 1265)
  • October 29Stefan Milutin, King of Serbia (b. c. 1253)
  • November 9Walter Langton, bishop of Lichfield and treasurer of England (b. 1243)

1322

  • January 3 – King Philip V of France (b. 1293)
  • January 10Petrus Aureolus, scholastic philosopher
  • March 16Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1276)
  • March 22Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1278)
  • April 14Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere, English soldier (b. 1275)
  • April 20 – Blessed Simon Rinalducci, Italian Augustinian friar
  • April 22Francis of Fabriano, Italian writer (b. 1251)
  • August 10John of La Verna, Italian ascetic (b. 1259)
  • August 25Beatrice of Silesia, queen consort of Germany (b. c. 1292)
  • September 14Joan of Lusignan, Dame de Lusignan (approximate date)
  • September 17Robert III, Count of Flanders (b. 1249)
  • December 3Maud 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 3Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English military leader
  • AugustIsabella of Burgundy, Queen of Germany (b. 1270)
  • September 4Gegeen Khan, Emperor Yingzong of Yuan (b. 1303)
  • October 16Amadeus 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

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  • January 8 or January 9Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)
  • February 11Karl von Trier, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
  • March 26Marie de Luxembourg, Queen of France (b. 1304) (carriage accident)
  • June 23Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (b. c.1275)
  • July 16Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1265)
  • August 16 or August 17Irene of Brunswick, Empress of Constantinople (b. c. 1293)
  • August 31Henry II of Jerusalem (b. 1271)
  • November 1John de Halton, Bishop of Carlisle
  • November 3Petronilla 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 3Nizamuddin Auliya, Sufi saint (b. 1238)
  • June 6 or July 6Ismail I, Sultan of Granada (b. 1279) (assassinated)
  • November 21Yury of Moscow, Prince of Moscow and Vladimir
  • December 16Charles, 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

1327

  • January 16Nikephoros Choumnos, Byzantine scholar and statesman (b. 1250 or 1255)
  • January 29Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine (b. 1300)
  • March 15Albert of Schwarzburg, German grand preceptor of the Knights Hospitaller
  • April 9Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland (b. 1293)
  • May 28Robert Baldock, Lord Privy Seal and Lord Chancellor of England
  • May 29Jens Grand, Danish archbishop (b. c. 1260)
  • July 4Stefano Visconti, Milanese nobleman
  • August 25Demasq Kaja, Ilkhanate member of the Chobanid Family
  • September 1Foulques de Villaret, French Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
  • September 21 – King Edward II of England (murdered; b. 1284)[14]
  • September 26Cecco d'Ascoli, Italian encyclopaedist, physician and poet (b. 1257)
  • October 20Teresa d'Entença, Countess of Urgell (b. 1300)
  • October 27Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert the Bruce[15]
  • November – Chupan, Chobanid prince of the Ilkhanate
  • November 2 or November 5 – King James II of Aragon (b. 1267)
  • December 19Agnes 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
  • probableBartholomew of Lucca, Italian historian

1328

  • February 1 – King Charles IV of France (b. 1294)[16]
  • August 15Yesün Temür, emperor of the Yuan dynasty (b. 1293)
  • August 23Nicolaas Zannekin, Flemish peasant leader (in the battle of Cassel)[17]
  • September 26Ibn Taymiyyah, Islamic scholar and philosopher of Harran (b. 1263)[18]
  • October 12 (or 13) – Clementia of Hungary, Queen consort of France and Navarre (b. 1293)[19]
  • November 16Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shōgun (b. 1276)
  • date unknown

1329

  • January 17Saint Roseline, Carthusian nun (b. 1263)
  • April 21Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282)
  • May 9John Drokensford, Bishop of Bath and Wells
  • May 31Albertino Mussato, Italian statesman and writer (b. 1261)
  • June 7Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)
  • August 30Khutughtu Khan, Emperor Mingzong of Yuan, emperor of the Yuan dynasty and the Mongol Empire (b. 1300)
  • October 27Mahaut, Countess of Artois (b. 1268)
  • date unknown

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