1331

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Year 1331 (MCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

September–December

• Serbia
  .
• Teutonic Knights and the Poles
  battle to a draw.

• The Sieges of Cividale del Friuli and Alicante begin.^[1]
• The Genkō War begins in Japan.
• Ibn Battuta visits Kilwa.
• The first recorded outbreak of the Black Death occurs, in the Chinese province of Hubei.

Births

• February 16 – Coluccio Salutati, Florentine political leader (d. 1406)
• April 14 – Jeanne-Marie de Maille, French Roman Catholic saint (b. 1414)
• April 30 – Gaston III, Count of Foix (d. 1391)
• James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (d. 1382
  )
• date unknown
  • Hamidüddin Aksarayî, Ottoman teacher of Islam (d. 1412
    )
  • Blanche d'Évreux, queen consort of France (d. 1398
    )
  • Michael Palaiologos, Byzantine prince
• probable – Salvestro de' Medici, provost of Florence (d. 1388)

Deaths

• January 14 – Odoric of Pordenone, Italian explorer
• April 17 – Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford (b. c. 1257)
• May 12 – Engelbert of Admont, abbot of Admont in Styria
• October 27 – Abulfeda, Kurdish Syrian historian and geographer (b. 1273)
• Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia (b. c. 1285
  )
• December 26 – Philip I, Prince of Taranto, titular Latin Emperor (b. 1278)
• December 30 – Bernard Gui, French inquisitor (b. 1261 or 1262)
• date unknown – Matilda of Hainaut, Princess of Achaea (b. 1293)

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