January – March •
January 3 – Englishman
Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle, who had recently defeated rebel
Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster at the
Battle of Boroughbridge, commits treason by signing a peace treaty with Scotland's King
Robert the Bruce. •
January 14 – On behalf of the
Fraticelli order of Spiritual Franciscans, Italian lawyer
Bonagrazia of Bergamo issues a protest to Pope John XXII of the December 8 papal bull
Ad conditorem canonum. Pope John revises the text of the bull and reissues it, but also punishes Bonagrazia for his insolence by having him imprisoned. •
January 25 –
Vilnius, now the capital of
Lithuania is first mentioned as a city, when the second of the
Letters of Grand Duke Gediminas of the Duchy of Lithuania are sent to German cities inviting German Jews and other Germans to resettle in the city of "Vilna". •
February 20 – Norway's regency council takes a stand against
Ingeborg Haakonsdater, mother of and regent for the 7-year-old
King Magnus VII. Ingeborg is removed from her position as chief regent on charges of misuse of her power. •
February 25 – The
Earl of Carlisle is arrested at
Carlisle Castle by the Castle's warden,
Anthony de Lucy, on charges of treason and turned over to the custody of King Edward II of England. •
March 13 –
Siege of Warangal: Sultan
Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq sends an expeditionary army led by his son,
Muhammad bin Tughluq, to the Kakatiya capital
Warangal – after ruler
Prataparudra has refused to make
tribute payments. He besieges the city and finally, after a campaign of 8 months, Prataparudra surrenders on
November 9.
April – June •
April 11 –
Hugh II, the self-styled
King of
Arborea (on the Italian island of
Sardinia, with a capital at
Oristano, becomes a
vassal of Spain's
King James II of
Aragon in exchange for maintenance of the dynastic rights over his Judicate, and begins a war on the Italian mainland against the
Republic of Pisa, winning a battle at
Villanovaforru. •
April 23 –
Elizabeth of Carinthia marries
Peter, Crown Prince of Sicily, co-ruler (with his father Frederick II) of the Kingdom of Sicily. •
April 25 – Nicolò Pistorino becomes the new
Grand Chancellor of the
Republic of Venice, succeeding Jacopo Bertoldi, who held the office for almost nine years. •
May 15 –
Marie of Luxembourg is formally crowned as Queen consort of France at
Sainte-Chapelle after her September 21 marriage to
King Charles IV. •
May 21 – The German ruler
Henry II, Lord of Mecklenburg, signs a peace treaty with King
Christopher II of Denmark confirming his conquest of the
Lordship of Rostock. •
May 26 –
Gediminas,
Grand Duke of Lithuania, sends his
third, fourth and fifth letters to German cities to advocate that residents relocate to his the Duchy of Lithuania. •
May 31 –
Zhao Xian, who had been the
Song dynasty Emperor of China from 1274 to 1276, commits suicide as an alternative to being executed, after being viewed as a threat by the Yuan dynasty Mongol Emperor
Yingzong. •
June 11 –
Bertrand du Pouget, French papal legate, commanding a military campaign against the
Ghibellines besieges
Milan – but abandons the siege when
Louis IV of Bavaria,
King of the Romans, sends a relief army to
Italy to aid the city and to protect his domains against the
Kingdom of Naples, which is together with
France the strongest ally of the
Papal States. •
June 28 –
Siege of Villa di Chiesa: Aragonese forces under Prince
Alfonso IV the Kind begin the siege at
Villa di Chiesa. The fortified town is founded by Count
Ugolino della Gherardesca, but is now under the control of the
Republic of Pisa. Alfonso attacks the town with some 1,000 men and several
siege engines, while the citizens are starved to death.
July – September •
July 18 –
Thomas Aquinas, Italian priest and theologian, is
canonized by Pope
John XXII at the
Avignon Cathedral and canonized as a
saint. •
August 12 –
Treaty of Nöteborg:
Sweden signs a peace treaty with the
Novgorod Republic, regulating the border (known as
Finland today) for the first time. The treaty is negotiated with the help of the
Hanseatic League in order to conclude the conflict over the control of the
Gulf of Finland during the
Swedish-Novgorodian Wars. •
September 4 –
Gegeen Khan, the Mongol Emperor Yingzong of China is assassinated in a coup d'etat on orders of
Yesün Temür, who becomes the new Emperor •
September 28 – In southern Burma (now Myanmar),
Saw Zein becomes the new monarch of the
Hanthawaddy kingdom (or Martaban) upon the death of his older brother,
Saw O.
October – December •
October 8 – John XXII claims the right to confirm imperial elections and demands that Louis IV of Bavarian surrender his claim to be
King of the Romans. •
October 16 – Lord Raymond-Bernard, of the Aquitaine town of
Montpezat, burns the village of Saint-Sardos to the ground and hangs the French royal sergeant who acted as agent for King Charles IV. France's government blames the England's
Baron Basset of the
Duchy of Gascony, for hiring Lord Raymond-Bernard. •
November 12 –
Pope John XXII issues the papal bull
Cum inter nonnullos as an addendum to the December 8 bull
Ad conditorem canonum, declaring that the assertion of the
Fraticelli that Christ and the Apostles possessed no property (and advocated poverty as a Christian virtue) is a heresy. •
December 7 – John of Nottingham and Robert of Coventry, two Englishmen believed by Coventry residents to be expert on
necromancy, begin the process of casting a spell to kill King Edward II, Sir Hugh le Despenser of Winchester, as well as the prior of Coventry. John allegedly accepted 20 pounds sterling, and starts his necromancy by making wax figurines of the targets of elimination and then using them for the next six months. The two men will later be prosecuted for sorcery after one of the designated victims allegedly dies after a pin is driven into his figurine. •
December 21 – In further retaliation by the King Charles of France against King Edward of England for the Saint-Sardos incident, Edward's chief advocate in France's parliament, Pons Tournemire, is arrested and imprisoned in the
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