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1331 CE

Stefan Dušan declares himself king of Serbia. Battle of Płowce: The German Teutonic Knights and the Poles battle to a draw. The Sieges of Cividale del Friuli and Alicante begin.

Conflict & Security

  • September 27 – Battle of Płowce: The German Teutonic Knights and the Poles battle to a draw.source
  • The Genkō War begins in Japan.source
  • The Sieges of Cividale del Friuli and Alicante begin.source

Religion & Belief

  • September 8 – Stefan Dušan declares himself king of Serbia.source

Health & Medicine

  • The first recorded outbreak of the Black Death occurs, in the Chinese province of Hebei.source

Births

  • February 16 – Coluccio Salutati, Florentine political leader (d. 1406)source
  • April 14 – Jeanne-Marie de Maille, French Roman Catholic saint (b. 1414)source
  • April 30 – Gaston III of Foix (d. 1391)source
  • October 4 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (d. 1382)source
  • Blanche d'Évreux, queen consort of France (d. 1398)source
  • Michael Palaiologos, Byzantine princesource
  • Hamidüddin Aksarayî, Ottoman teacher of Islam (d. 1412)source
  • probable – Salvestro de' Medici, provost of Florence (d. 1388)source

Deaths

  • January 14 – Odoric of Pordenone, Italian missionary friar and explorer (b. c. 1280)source
  • April 17 – Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford, English noble and soldier (b. c. 1257)source
  • May 12 – Engelbert of Admont, abbot in Styriasource
  • October 27 – Abulfeda, Kurdish Syrian historian and geographer (b. 1273)source
  • November 11 – King Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia (b. c. 1285)source
  • December 26 – Philip I, Prince of Taranto, titular Latin Emperor (b. 1278)source
  • December 30 – Bernard Gui, French inquisitor (b. 1261 or 1262)source
  • date unknown – Matilda of Hainaut, Princess of Achaea (b. 1293)source