Year 1341 ( MCCCXLI) was a

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of the

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Events

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– An

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with a magnitude of 6.0 and a maximum

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of VIII (''Severe'') affects

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(disputed event). *

January 18 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later. * 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail. * 1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the C ...

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, a constituent college of the

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in Kingdom of England, England, is founded. * April 8 – Petrarch is crowned poet laureate in Rome, the first man since antiquity to be given this honor. * September–October – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 (between John VI Kantakouzenos and the regency for the infant John V Palaiologos) breaks out.

Date unknown

* The Breton War of Succession begins, over the control of the Duchy of Brittany. * Margarete Maultasch, Countess of County of Tyrol, Tyrol, expels her husband John Henry of Bohemia, to whom she had been married as a child. She subsequently marries Louis V the Brandenburger, Louis of Bavaria without having been divorced, which results in the excommunication of the couple. * Tbilisi becomes a capital of European Christian Cathedra, after the city of Smirna. George V of Georgia, George V (the Brilliant) returns Jerusalem and the Grave of Christ from the Muslims. * Saluzzo is sacked by Manfred V of Saluzzo. * Casimir III of Poland builds a masonry castle in Lublin, and encircles the city with defensive walls. * The Delhi Sultanate, sultan of Delhi Muhammad bin Tughluq chooses Ibn Battuta to lead a diplomatic mission to Yuan Dynasty China. * A 1341 Floods in Kerala, great flood in the river Periyar River, Periyar in modern-day southern India leads to the river changing its course, the closing of Muziris, the opening up of Cochin (Kochi, India, Kochi) harbour, submersion of some islands, and birth of some new islands. * Chinese poet Gunpowder warfare#China, Zhang Xian writes the ''Iron Cannon Affair'', about the destructive use of gunpowder and the cannon. * Approximate date – Magnus Erikssons landslag (the Country Law of Magnus IV of Sweden) is promulgated. * The danish king Valdemar IV of Denmark, Valdemar IV Atterdag sells southern Halland for 8000 Mark (unit), mark to king Magnus Eriksson, Magnus Eriksson of Sweden in order to finance the Valdemar IV of Denmark, reunification of Denmark. * Bridget of Sweden, Saint Bridget of Sweden and her husband Ulf Gudmarsson went on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.

Births

* June 5 – Edmund of Langley, son of King Edward III of England (d. 1402) * September 1 – Frederick III the Simple, King of Sicily (d. 1377) * November 10 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408) * ''date unknown'' ** Bonne of Bourbon, Countess regent of Savoy (d. 1402) ** Hermann II, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1413) ** Louis, Duke of Durazzo (d. 1376) ** Qu You, Chinese novelist (d. 1427)

Deaths

* January 22 – Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279) * March 2 or October 3 – Martha of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (b. 1277) * April 30 – John III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1286) * June – Al-Nasir Muhammad, Sultan of Egypt (b. 1295) * June 19 – Juliana Falconieri, Italian saint (b. 1270) * June 15 – Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1297) * August 9 – Eleanor of Anjou, queen consort of Sicily (b. 1289) * August 28 – King Levon IV of Armenia (murdered) (b. 1309) * December – Gediminas, Duke of Lithuania * December 4 – Janisław (archbishop of Gniezno), Janisław, Archbishop of Gniezno * ''date unknown'' ** Petrus Filipsson, Archbishop of Uppsala ** Uzbeg Khan, Khan of the Golden Horde (b. 1282) ** Nicholas I Sanudo, Duke of the Archipelago ** Bartholomew II Ghisi, Lord of Tenos and Mykonos, Triarch of Negroponte * ''probable'' – Richard Folville, English outlaw and parson (resisting arrest)

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