1341

Template:Use mdy dates Template:About year Template:Year nav Template:C14 year in topicYear 1341 (MCCCXLI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

The Byzantine Empire around the start of the Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347.

• January 1 – An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) affects Crimea<ref>Template:Citation</ref> (disputed event<ref>Papadopoulos, G. A., Diakogianni, G., Fokaefs, A., and Ranguelov, B.: Tsunami hazard in the Black Sea and the Azov Sea: a new tsunami catalogue, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 11, 945–963, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-11-945-2011, 2011.</ref>).
• January 18 – The Queen's College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, is founded.<ref>"History". The Queen's College, Oxford. Archived from the original on 10 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2025.</ref>
• April 8 – Petrarch is crowned poet laureate in Rome, the first man since antiquity to be given this honor.<ref>Kirkham, Victoria (2009). Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 9. Template:ISBN.</ref>
• September–October – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 (between John VI Kantakouzenos and the regency for the infant John V Palaiologos) breaks out.

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• The Breton War of Succession begins, over the control of the Duchy of Brittany.Template:Citation needed
• Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, expels her husband John Henry of Bohemia, to whom she had been married as a child. She subsequently marries Louis of Bavaria without having been divorced, which results in the excommunication of the couple.Template:Citation needed
• Tbilisi becomes a capital of European Christian Cathedra, after the city of Smirna. George V (the Brilliant) returns Jerusalem and the Grave of Christ from the Muslims.Template:Citation needed
• Saluzzo is sacked by Manfred V of Saluzzo.<ref>"Non iam capitanei, sed reges nominarentur: progetti regi e rivendicazioni politiche nei rituali funerari dei Visconti (XIV secolo)". Courts and Courtly Cultures in Early Modern Italy and Europe Models and Languages. Retrieved 2 January 2025.</ref>
• Casimir III of Poland builds a masonry castle in Lublin, and encircles the city with defensive walls.<ref>"Tourist Guide: Lublin" (PDF). Lublin City Council. 2009. p. 2. Archived from the original(PDF) on 20 April 2015.</ref>
• The sultan of Delhi Muhammad bin Tughluq chooses Ibn Battuta to lead a diplomatic mission to Yuan Dynasty China.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• A great flood in the river Periyar in modern-day southern India leads to the river changing its course, the closing of Muziris, the opening up of Cochin (Kochi) harbour, submersion of some islands, and birth of some new islands.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Chinese poet Zhang Xian writes the Iron Cannon Affair, about the destructive use of gunpowder and the cannon.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Approximate date – Magnus Erikssons landslag (the Country Law of Magnus IV of Sweden) is promulgated.<ref>Ruffert, Matthias (2011). Legitimacy in European Administrative Law: Reform and Reconstruction. Europa Law Publishing. p. 118. Template:ISBN.</ref>
• The danish king Valdemar IV Atterdag sells southern Halland for 8000 mark to king Magnus Eriksson of Sweden in order to finance the reunification of Denmark.<ref>Harrison, Dick (2020). ”Riket växer”. Det svenska rikets födelse. Historiska media. Template:ISBN</ref>
• Saint Bridget of Sweden and her husband Ulf Gudmarsson went on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.<ref>Birgitta Birgersdotter, www.skbl.se/sv/artikel/BirgittaBirgersdotter, Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (article by Thomas Lindkvist), retrieved 2025-01-02.</ref>

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)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 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
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  • 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)