1330s

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

Events

1330

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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.

1331

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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

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  • February 18 – Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia, begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces (possibly in 1329).
  • August 10–11 – Battle of Dupplin Moor: Edward Balliol rebels, and the English defeat the loyalists of David II in Scotland.[2]
  • September – Edward Balliol crowns himself King of Scotland.[2]
  • November 7 – Lucerne joins the Swiss Confederation with Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden.
  • December 16 – Battle of Annan: The loyalists of David II defeat Edward Balliol in Scotland.[3]
  • The city of Marosvásárhely (in Transylvania, today Târgu Mureș in Romania) is first documented in the papal registry, under the name Novum Forum Siculorum.

1333

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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.

1334

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January–December[]

  • July 18 – The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundational stone laid for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral (the tower was designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone).
  • December 30 – Pope Benedict XII succeeds Pope John XXII, as the 197th pope.

Date unknown[]

1335

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January–December[]

Date unknown[]

  • Georgians under King George V (the Brilliant) finally defeat the Mongolians in a decisive battle. After that George V returns the Grave of Christ from the Muslims.
  • Slavery is abolished in Sweden.
  • Congress of Visegrád: The monarchs of Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland form an anti-Habsburg alliance.
  • Carinthia and Carniola come under Habsburg rule. After the death of Duke Henry, the duchies are bestowed by Louis the Bavarian on the Dukes of Austria. From that time onwards, what is today Slovenia is ruled jointly with Austria until 1918.
  • Pope Benedict XII begins to reform the Cistercians.
  • The excommunication of Frederick III of Sicily and the interdict placed on Sicily end.
  • Construction begins on the papal palace in Avignon.
  • Aabenraa is chartered as a city.
  • The School of Arts in Zaragoza, Spain is founded (later known as the University of Zaragoza in the 16th Century).

1336

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  • 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 – Brothers Harihara and Bukka Raya found the Vijayanagara Empire on the southern part of the Deccan Plateau in South India.
  • 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.[7]
  • 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.[8]
  • September 20 – The reign of Emperor Kōmyō, second of the Ashikaga Pretenders to the Northern Court of Japan, begins.

1337

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January–December[]

  • March 16 – Edward, the Black Prince establishes the Duchy of Cornwall, becoming the first English Duke.[9]
  • May 24 – Philip VI of France confiscates Gascony from English control.[10]
  • August – English forces relieve Stirling Castle, ending Edward III of England's last campaign in Scotland.[10]
  • October – Hundred Years' War: Edward III of England formally rejects Philip VI's claim to the French throne, initiating hostilities between France and England.[10][4]
  • November – Battle of Cadzand: English troops raid the Flemish island of Cadzand.

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

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Date unknown[]

  • Hundred Years' War: Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor appoints Edward III of England as a vicar-general of the Holy Roman Empire. Louis supports Edward's claim to the French throne, under the terms of the Treaty of Koblenz.
  • Philip VI of France besieges Guienne in Southwest France, and his navy attacks Portsmouth, England.
  • Ashikaga Takauji is granted the title of shōgun by the emperor of Japan, starting the Ashikaga Shogunate.
  • Nicomedia is captured by the Ottoman Empire.

1339

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January–December[]

  • June – Battle of Laupen: The Canton of Bern defeats the forces of Fribourg. [11]
  • September 18 – Emperor Go-Murakami accedes to the throne of Japan.
  • September 24 (or 28)[12] – Simone Boccanegra is elected, as the first Doge of Genoa.

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[]

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1330

  • June 15 – Edward, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (d. 1376)[13]
  • July 4 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shōgun (d. 1367)
  • October 25 – Louis II of Flanders (d. 1384)
  • date unknown
    • Frans Ackerman, Flemish statesman (d. 1387)
    • Euphemia of Sicily, princess regent of Sicily (d. 1359)
    • Altichiero, Italian painter (d. 1390)
    • Nicolas Flamel, French scribe and manuscript-seller, reputed alchemist (d. 1417)
    • John Gower, English poet (d. 1410)

1331

1332

1333

  • date unknown

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

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)[16]
  • 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

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)[17]
    • Erik Magnusson, king of parts of Sweden 1356–1359 (d. 1359)[18]
    • Frederick, Duke of Bavaria-Landshut (d. 1393)
    • Pope Innocent VII (d. 1406)
    • John IV, Duke of Brittany (d. 1399)[19]
    • Juana Manuel of Castile, queen consort of Castile (d. 1381)
    • Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani, Persian Arab encyclopaedist (d. 1414)

Deaths[]

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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[20]
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

1332

1333

1334

  • January 17 – John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond (b. c. 1266)
  • December 4 – Pope John XXII (b. 1249)
  • date unknown – Sheikh Safi-ad-din Ardabili of Persia (b. 1251)
  • Isabella de Vesci, politically active French noblewoman (b. 1260s)

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)[21]
  • 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

1339

Emperor Go-Daigo

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