1331
Calendar year
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Year 1331 (MCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
SeptemberâDecember
- September 8 â Stefan DuÅ¡an declares himself king of Serbia.
- September 27 â Battle of PÅowce: The German Teutonic Knights and the Poles battle to a draw.
Date unknown
- The Sieges of Cividale del Friuli and Alicante begin.[1]
- The GenkÅ War begins in Japan.
- Ibn Battuta visits Kilwa.
- The first recorded outbreak of the Black Death occurs, in the Chinese province of Hebei.
Births
- February 16 â Coluccio Salutati, Florentine political leader (d. 1406)
- April 14 â Jeanne-Marie de Maille, French Roman Catholic saint (b. 1414)
- April 30 â Gaston III, Count of Foix (d. 1391)
- October 4 â James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (d. 1382)
- date unknown
- Hamidüddin Aksarayî, Ottoman teacher of Islam (d. 1412)
- Blanche d'Ãvreux, queen consort of France (d. 1398)
- Michael Palaiologos, Byzantine prince
- probable â Salvestro de' Medici, provost of Florence (d. 1388)
Deaths
- January 14 â Odoric of Pordenone, Italian missionary friar and explorer (b. c. 1280)
- April 17 â Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford, English noble and soldier (b. c. 1257)
- May 12 â Engelbert of Admont, abbot in Styria
- October 27 â Abulfeda, Kurdish Syrian historian and geographer (b. 1273)
- November 11 â King Stefan UroÅ¡ III DeÄanski of Serbia (b. c. 1285)
- December 26 â Philip I, Prince of Taranto, titular Latin Emperor (b. 1278)
- December 30 â Bernard Gui, French inquisitor (b. 1261 or 1262)
- date unknown â Matilda of Hainaut, Princess of Achaea (b. 1293)