1341
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| Years: 1338 1339 1340 - 1341 - 1342 1343 1344 | |
| Decades: 1310s 1320s 1330s - 1340s - 1350s 1360s 1370s | |
| Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century | |
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[edit] Events
- The Queen's College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is founded.
- Petrarch is crowned poet laureate in Rome, the first man since antiquity to be given this honor.
- Beginning of the Breton War of Succession over the control of the Duchy of Brittany.
- 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.
- Saluzzo is sacked by Manfred V of Saluzzo.
- The Chinese poet Zhang Xian wrote the Iron Cannon Affair about the destructive use of gunpowder and the cannon.
- The sultan of Delhi chooses Ibn Battuta to lead a diplomatic mission to Ancient China.
[edit] Births
- June 5 - Edmund of Langley, son of King Edward III of England (died 1402)
- November 10 - Henry Percy, English statesman (d. 1408)
- Qu You, Chinese novelist (died 1427)
[edit] Deaths
- April 30 - John III (born 1286)
- June 15 - Andronicus III Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor
- August 28 - King Leo V of Armenia (murdered) (born 1309)
- Gediminas
- Uzbeg Khan, Khan of the Golden Horde (born 1312)
- Al-Nasr Muhammad, Sultan of Egypt (born 1295)
- Richard Folville, English outlaw and parson, dies resisting arrest.
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[edit] People of the year 1341 at Familypedia
3 people were born in 1341
0 people died in 1341
120 people lived in 1341
