1341

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Centuries:	13th century - 14th century - 15th century
Decades:	1310s  1320s  1330s  - 1340s -  1350s  1360s  1370s
Years:	1338 1339 1340 - 1341 - 1342 1343 1344

1341 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1341 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1341

• 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.
• The Breton War of Succession begins 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 writes 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.

1341 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1341 MCCCXLI
Ab urbe condita	2094
Armenian calendar	790 ԹՎ ՉՂ
Bahá'í calendar	-503 – -502
Berber calendar	2291
Buddhist calendar	1885
Burmese calendar	703
Byzantine calendar	6849 – 6850
Chinese calendar	庚辰年十二月十三日 (3977/4037-12-13) — to — 辛巳年十一月廿三日 (3978/4038-11-23)
Coptic calendar	1057 – 1058
Ethiopian calendar	1333 – 1334
Hebrew calendar	5101 – 5102
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1396 – 1397
- Shaka Samvat	1263 – 1264
- Kali Yuga	4442 – 4443
Holocene calendar	11341
Iranian calendar	719 – 720
Islamic calendar	741 – 742
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3674
Thai solar calendar	1884
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[edit] 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)
• date unknown
  • Bonne of Bourbon, Countess of Savoy (d. 1402)
  • Hermann II, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1413)
  • Louis, Duke of Durazzo (d. 1376)
  • Qu You, Chinese novelist (d. 1427)

Also see Category:1341 births.

[edit] Deaths

• April 30 - John III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1286)
• June 12 - Juliana Falconieri, Italian saint (b. 1270)
• June 15 - Andronicus III Palaeologus, 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 4 - Janisław I, Archbishop of Gniezno
• date unknown
  • Petrus Filipsson, Archbishop of Uppsala
  • Gediminas, Duke of Lithuania
  • Uzbeg Khan, Khan of the Golden Horde (b. 1282)
  • Martha of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (b. 1277)
  • Al-Nasr Muhammad, Sultan of Egypt (b. 1295)
  • Nicholas I Sanudo, Duke of the Archipelago
• probable - Richard Folville, English outlaw and parson (resisting arrest)

Also see Category:1341 deaths.