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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

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.[1]
  • 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.[2]
  • Undated – Ivan Alexander becomes the despot of Lovech.

1331

September–December

Date unknown

  • The Sieges of Cividale del Friuli and Alicante begin.[3]
  • 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

  • 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.[4]
  • September – Edward Balliol crowns himself King of Scotland.[4]
  • 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.[5]
  • 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

January–December

  • May 18 – Siege of Kamakura in Japan: Forces loyal to Emperor Go-Daigo, led by Nitta Yoshisada, enter and destroy the city, breaking the power of the Hōjō clan over the Kamakura shogunate. The Kamakura period ends, and the Kenmu Restoration under Go-Daigo begins.
  • June 6 – William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, is murdered as part of the Burke Civil War in Ireland.
  • June 8 – King Edward III of England seizes the Isle of Man from Scottish control.[6]
  • June 19 – Ashikaga Takauji leads his army into Kyoto as part of the Kenmu Restoration.
  • July 7 – The reign of Emperor Kōgon of Japan, first of the Northern Court (Ashikaga) Pretenders, ends.
  • July 19 – Wars of Scottish Independence - Battle of Halidon Hill: Edward III of England decisively defeats Sir Archibald Douglas. Berwick-upon-Tweed returns to English control.
  • November 4 – The River Arno floods, causing massive damage in Florence, as recorded by Giovanni Villani.

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.[7]
  • 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.[8]

1334

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

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.[9] His death without a clear heir causes the Ilkhanate to disintegrate.
  • October 22 – Ex-emperor Hanazono (95th emperor of japan) becomes a Zen priest.

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

  • February 25
  • April 18 (unconfirmed) – Brothers Harihara and Bukka Raya found the Vijayanagara Empire on the southern part of the Deccan Plateau in South India.[10]
  • 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.[11]
  • 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 – Second War of Scottish Independence: Aberdeen, Scotland is burned by the English.[12]
  • September 20 – The reign of Emperor Kōmyō, second of the Ashikaga Pretenders to the Northern Court of Japan, begins.

1337

January–December

Date unknown

1338

Date unknown

1339

January–December

  • June – Battle of Laupen: The Canton of Bern defeats the forces of Fribourg.[16]
  • September 18 – Emperor Go-Murakami accedes to the throne of Japan.
  • September 24 (or 28)[17] – 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

1330

1331

1332

1333

1334

1335

1336

1337

1338

1339

Deaths

1330

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

  • 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

  • April 2 – Duke Henry of Carinthia
  • August 12 – Prince Moriyoshi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1308)
  • August 23 – Heilwige Bloemardinne, Dutch Christian mystic (b. c. 1265)
  • October 31 – Marie of Évreux, French noblewoman (b. 1303)
  • December 1 – Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan, Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate (b. 1305)

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)[28]
  • 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, Kayı and Ottoman soldier and commander in-chief (b. 1200) at the age of 136.

1337

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
  • probable – Prince Narinaga, Japanese shōgun (b. 1325)

1339

Emperor Go-Daigo

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