1334

Template:Use mdy dates Template:About year Template:Year nav Template:More citations needed Template:C14 year in topicYear 1334 (MCCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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).<ref>Zucconi, Guido (1995). Florence: An Architectural Guide (2001 Reprint ed.). San Giovanni Lupatoto (Vr): Arsenale Editrice. Template:ISBN.</ref>
• December 30 – Pope Benedict XII succeeds Pope John XXII, as the 197th pope.<ref>Bueno 2016, p. 247.</ref>

Date unknown

• Autumn – Battle of Adramyttion: A Christian league defeats the fleet of the Turkish Beylik of Karasi.<ref>Carr 2013, p. 172.</ref>

Births

• January 4 – Amadeus VI of Savoy (d. 1383)
• January 13 – King Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)
• May 25 – Emperor Sukō (d. 1398)
• August 30 – King Pedro of Castile (d. 1369)
• date unknown
  • King James I of Cyprus (d. 1398)
  • Margaret Graham, Countess of Menteith, Scottish noble (d. c. 1380)
  • Hayam Wuruk, Javanese ruler (d. 1389)

Deaths

• January 17 – John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond (b. c. 1266)
• December 4 – Pope John XXII (b. 1249)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• date unknown – Sheikh Safi-ad-din Ardabili of Persia (b. 1251)
• Isabella de Vesci, politically active French noblewoman (b. 1260s)