Year 1331 (
MCCCXXXI) was a
common year starting on Tuesday
A common year starting on Tuesday is any non-leap year (i.e. a year with 365 days) that begins on Tuesday, 1 January, and ends on Tuesday, 31 December. Its dominical letter hence is F. The most recent year of such kind was 2019, and the next one wi ...
of the
Julian calendar
The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception). The Julian calendar is still used as a religious calendar in parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church and in parts ...
.
Events
September–December
*
September 8
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – After the capture of Herod's Palace the previous day, a Roman army under Titus secures and plunders the city of Jerusalem.
* 617 – Battle of Huoyi: Li Yuan defeats a Sui dynasty army, opening the path ...
–
Stefan Dušan
Stephen (honorific), Stefan Uroš IV Dušan ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Урош IV Душан), also known as Dušan the Mighty ( sr-Cyrl, Душан Силни; – 20 December 1355), was the King of Serbia from 8 September 1331 and Emperor of th ...
declares himself king of
Serbia
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September 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1066 – William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme river, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
* 1331 – The Battle of Płowce is fought, between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teut ...
–
Battle of Płowce
The Battle of Płowce took place on 27 September 1331 between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order.
Background
The Teutonic plan was to support John of Bohemia in an invasion of Silesia. Władysław I the Elbow-high had claimed lordshi ...
: The German
Teutonic Knights
The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem. The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem was formed to aid Christians on their pilgrimages to t ...
and the
Poles
Pole or poles may refer to:
People
*Poles (people), another term for Polish people, from the country of Poland
* Pole (surname), including a list of people with the name
* Pole (musician) (Stefan Betke, born 1967), German electronic music artist
...
battle to a draw.
Date unknown
* The Sieges of
Cividale del Friuli
Cividale del Friuli (, locally ; ; ) is a town and (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Udine, part of the North-Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The town lies above sea-level in the foothills of the eastern Alps, ...
and
Alicante
Alicante (, , ; ; ; officially: ''/'' ) is a city and municipalities of Spain, municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean port. The population ...
begin.
* The
Genkō War
The , also known as the , was a civil war fought in Japan between the Emperor Go-Daigo and the Kamakura Shogunate from 1331 to 1333. The Genkō War was named after Genkō, the Japanese era corresponding to the period of 1331 to 1334 when the wa ...
begins in Japan.
*
Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta (; 24 February 13041368/1369), was a Maghrebi traveller, explorer and scholar. Over a period of 30 years from 1325 to 1354, he visited much of Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Iberian Peninsula. Near the end of his life, Ibn ...
visits
Kilwa
Kilwa Kisiwani ('Kilwa Island') is an island, national historic site, and Hamlet (place), hamlet community located in the township of Kilwa Masoko, the district seat of Kilwa District in the Tanzanian region of Lindi Region, Lindi in southern Ta ...
.
* The first recorded outbreak of the
Black Death
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the list of epidemics, most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as people perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. ...
occurs, in the Chinese province of Hubei.
Births
*
February 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
* 1270 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battl ...
–
Coluccio Salutati
Coluccio Salutati (16 February 1331 – 4 May 1406) was an Italian Renaissance humanist and notary, and one of the most important political and cultural leaders of Renaissance
The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history ...
, Florentine political leader (d.
1406
Year 1406 ( MCDVI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 9 – Pope Innocent VII declares that Ladislaus is deposed as King of Naples, but refuses to acknowledge the order. ...
)
*
April 14
Events Pre-1600
* 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum.
* 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor ...
–
Jeanne-Marie de Maille, French Roman Catholic saint (b.
1414
Year 1414 ( MCDXIV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 7 – Michael Küchmeister von Sternberg becomes the 28th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, succeeding Heinrich ...
)
*
April 30
Events Pre-1600
* 311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.
* 1315 – Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois.
*1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus ...
–
Gaston III, Count of Foix
Gaston III, known as Gaston Phoebus or Fébus (30 April 1331 – 1 August 1391), was the eleventh Count of Foix (as Gaston III) and twenty-fourth Viscount of Béarn (as Gaston X) from 1343 until his death.
Due to his ancestral inheritance, Gas ...
(d.
1391
Year 1391 ( MCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* June 6 – Massacre of 1391: Anti-Jewish pogroms erupt in Seville, Spain. Many thousands of Jews are massacred, and the v ...
)
*
October 4
Events Pre-1600
*AD 23 – Rebels sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion.
* 1209 – Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
* 1302 – The Byzantine–Venetian War comes ...
–
James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde
James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond (4 October 133118 October 1382) was a noble in the Peerage of Ireland. He was Lord Justice of Ireland in 1359, 1364, and 1376, and a dominant political leader in Ireland in the 1360s and 1370s.
The son of James Bu ...
(d.
1382
Year 1382 ( MCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* January 20 – Princess Anne of Bohemia, a daughter of the late Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes the Queen ...
)
* ''date unknown''
**
Hamidüddin Aksarayî
Shaykh Hamid-i Vali () (1331–1412), better known by his sobriquet Somunju Baba (), was an ascetic teacher of Islam in Bursa, Turkey, who exerted extensive influence and is known as a Muslim saint. He was born in Kayseri and died in Aksaray. He ...
, Ottoman teacher of Islam (d.
1412
Year 1412 (Roman numerals, MCDXII) was a leap year starting on Friday on the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 16 – The Medici Family are made official bankers of the Papacy.
* January 25 – Ernest, Duke of ...
)
**
Blanche d'Évreux
Blanche of Navarre (; 1331 – 5 October 1398) was a Navarrese infanta who was briefly Queen of France as the second wife of King Philip VI from 29 January until 22 August 1350.
Blanche d'Évreux was intended to become the bride of John, Duk ...
, queen consort of France (d.
1398
Year 1398 ( MCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* March 15 – Trần Thuận Tông is forced to abdicate as ruler of the Trần dynasty in modern-day Vietnam, in fa ...
)
**
Michael Palaiologos, Byzantine prince
* ''probable'' –
Salvestro de' Medici, provost of Florence (d.
1388
Year 1388 ( MCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* February – The entire court of Richard II of England are convicted of treason ...
)
Deaths
*
January 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
* 1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
1601–1900
* 1761 – The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in I ...
–
Odoric of Pordenone
Odoric of Pordenone (c. 1280–14 January 1331) was a Franciscan friar and missionary explorer from Friuli in northeast Italy. He journeyed through India, Sumatra, Java, and China, where he spent three years in the imperial capital of Khanbaliq ...
, Italian explorer
*
April 17
Events Pre-1600
* 1080 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
* 1349 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of H ...
–
Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford (b. c.
1257
Year 1257 ( MCCLVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* January 13 – At the first recorded meeting of the college of the seven Electors of the Holy Roman Empire, the 48-year-ol ...
)
*
May 12
Events Pre-1600
* 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism.
* 907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the ...
–
Engelbert of Admont, abbot of Admont in Styria
*
October 27
Events Pre-1600
*312 – Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of Constantine, Vision of the Cross.
*1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
*1524 – French troops Italian campaign of 152 ...
–
Abulfeda
Ismāʿīl bin ʿAlī bin Maḥmūd bin Muḥammad bin ʿUmar bin Shāhanshāh bin Ayyūb bin Shādī bin Marwān (), better known as Abū al-Fidāʾ or Abulfeda (; November 127327 October 1331), was a Mamluk-era Kurdish geographer, historian, ...
, Kurdish Syrian historian and geographer (b.
1273)
*
November 11
Events Pre-1600
* 308 – At Carnuntum, Emperor ''emeritus'' Diocletian confers with Galerius, '' Augustus'' of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former ''Augustus'' of the West, in an attempt to end the civil wars of th ...
–
Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia
Stefan may refer to:
* Stefan (given name)
* Stefan (surname)
* Ștefan, a Romanian given name and a surname
* Štefan, a Slavic given name and surname
* Stefan (footballer) (born 1988), Brazilian footballer
* Stefan Heym, pseudonym of German writ ...
(b. c.
1285
Year 1285 ( MCCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* Aragonese Crusade: French forces led by King Philip III (the Bold) entrench before Girona, in an attempt to besiege the cit ...
)
*
December 26
Events Pre-1600
* 887 – Berengar I is elected as king of Italy by the lords of Lombardy. He is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy at Pavia.
* 1481 – Battle of Westbroek: An army of 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers raised by David of ...
–
Philip I, Prince of Taranto
Philip II (10 November 1278 – 26 December 1331), also known as Philip I of Taranto, was titular Latin Emperor of Constantinople by marriage to Catherine of Valois–Courtenay, Despot of Romania, King of Albania, Prince of Achaea and Taranto. ...
, titular Latin Emperor (b.
1278
Year 1278 (Roman numerals, MCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* May 1 – William of Villehardouin, prince of Principality of Achaea, Achaea, dies. By the terms of t ...
)
*
December 30
Events
Pre-1600
* 534 – The second and final edition of the Code of Justinian comes into effect in the Byzantine Empire.
* 999 – Battle of Glenmama: The combined forces of Munster and Meath under king Brian Boru inflict a cr ...
–
Bernard Gui
Bernard Gui (), also known as Bernardo Gui or Bernardus Guidonis (c. 1261/62 – 30 December 1331), was a Limousin Dominican friar, Bishop of Lodève, and a papal inquisitor during the later stages of the Medieval Inquisition.
Biography
...
, French inquisitor (b.
1261
Year 1261 ( MCCLXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* March 13 – Treaty of Nymphaeum: Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos signs a trade and defense agreement with the ...
or
1262)
* ''date unknown'' –
Matilda of Hainaut
Matilda of Hainaut (French language, French: ''Mathilde de Hainaut''; November 1293 – 1331), also known as Maud and Mahaut, was Prince of Achaea, Princess of Achaea from 1316 to 1321. She was the only child of Isabella of Villehardouin and Flor ...
, Princess of Achaea (b.
1293
Year 1293 ( MCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By area Africa
* December – Mamluk sultan of Egypt Khalil is assassinated by his regent Baydara, who briefly claims the sultanate, before bei ...
)
References
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