January – March •
January 13 – In Spain, Marinid Prince
Uthman ibn Abi al-Ula, who started an uprising the year before against the
Emirate of Granada and its ruler
Muhammad IV, arrives at
Almería and proceeds to enlist Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Abi Sa'id, Muhammad IV's uncle, to be installed as the new Emir, with the name al-Qa'im bi-amr Allah. •
January 20 – Imprisoned at Warwickshire,
King Edward II of England is forced to abdicate by his estranged wife,
Queen Isabella, and her lover,
Roger Mortimer. •
January 25 – The 14-year-old
Crown Prince, Edward, is proclaimed King of England in
London, with his mother Isabella serving as his
regent. •
February 1 – The coronation of
King Edward III as ruler of England takes place at
Westminster Abbey with the approval of the English Parliament.
Walter Reynolds,
Archbishop of Canterbury, places the crown upon the new King. •
February 5 – (1st waning of Kason 684 ME,
Burmese calendar) In Burma (now Myanmar),
Tarabya I becomes the new
King of Sagaing, located in northern Myanmar on the
Irrawaddy River with a capital in the city of
Sagaing. Tarabya succeeds his brother, upon the death of his brother, King
Saw Yun, despite the fact that Saw Yun has an heir,
Prince Kyaswa. •
February 8 – At
Opava (now in the Czech Republic), the Polish Silesian noble
Casimir I, Duke of Cieszyn swears
homage to the King of Bohemia,
John the Blind. In return, Casimir is granted
Auschwitz as a fiefdom on February 23. •
February 13 • King
Charles I of Hungary and King
John of Bohemia sign an alliance agreement at
Nagyszombat in Bohemia (now Trnava in the Republic of Slovakia), to proceed against the Austrian Habsburgs who occupy
Pressburg (now Bratislava, capital of Slovakia). • In Bavaria, a large fire breaks out in
Munich and is not brought under control for two days. One-third of the buildings in the city are destroyed. •
February 19 – Other
Silesian nobles follow the example of Casimir of Cieszyn at Opava and swear homage to King John of Bohemia, including the Piast nobles
Leszek of Racibórz,
Siemowit of Bytom and
George of Bytom. •
March 31 – King
Charles IV of France makes a peace treaty with
England, he returns
Aquitaine and
Gascony to English rule. Charles receives 50,000 livres and has seized all the English possessions in
France. The territories of
Limousin,
Quercy and
Périgord county come under French control.
April – June •
April 4 – In the civil war in Granada, Prince
Uthman ibn Abi al-Ula captures the fortress of
Laujar de Andarax (now in the Almeria province of Spain). •
April 6 (
Good Friday) –
Francesco Petrarca, Italian scholar and poet, sees a woman he names Laura (possibly
Laura de Noves) in the
church of Sainte-Claire d'
Avignon, which awakes in him a lasting passion. He writes a series of
sonnets and other poems in Italian dedicated to her, which are collected into
Il Canzoniere, an influential model for
Renaissance culture. •
May 31 – In
Milan,
Ludwig the Bavarian,
King of the Romans, becomes the first
King of Italy since 1313, when
Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor had died. Ludwig is enthroned as King Ludovico IV, the third king with that name (
Louis the Blind had ruled as Ludovico III from 900 to 905). •
June 21 – Queen
Ingeborg of Norway marries the Danish nobleman
Canute Porse the Elder, but is deposed from political power in
Norway.
July – September •
July 4 – During a banquet given by
Galeazzo I Visconti in
Milan, an attempt is apparently made to poison the guest of honor,
Ludwig the Bavarian, newly crowned as
King of Italy. Galeazzo's brother,
Stefano Visconti, becomes ill after tasting food and drink intended for Ludwig and dies suddenly at home. Stefano's brothers Galeazzo, Giovanni, and Luchino, along with his nephew Azzone Visconti, are all imprisoned on orders of the Holy Roman Emperor based on accusations of a fourth brother, Marco Visconti. •
August 25 –
Demasq Kaja, Viceroy of Azerbaijan and of Iraq in the
Ilkhanate, the Mongol Empire's area of control in the Middle East, is killed in
Soltaniyeh after trying to escape arrest on orders of the
Ilkhan,
Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan. Abu Sa'id had concluded that Demasq's father,
Amir Chūpān, was attempting to take over the Ilkhanate. •
September 21 – Less than a year after his arrest, the former King of England, Edward II, is brutally murdered in
Berkeley Castle in
Gloucestershire.
October – December •
October 23 – Pope
John XXII condemns
Marsilius of Padua's 1324 treatise
Defensor pacis (
The Defender of Peace). The excommunicated Marsilius flees to
Germany and seeks protection at the court of King
Louis the Bavarian. John also excommunicates Louis and demands that he relinquishes his claim to the imperial crown. •
October 27 –
Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen consort of Scotland as the wife of King Robert the Bruce, is fatally injured when she falls from her horse while traveling with her entourage to
Cullen Castle in
Banffshire. •
November 5 – At
Barcelona,
Prince Alfonso the Kind becomes the new
King of Aragon upon the death of his father,
King Jaime II, and is enthroned as King Alfonso IV. •
December 11 –
Simon Mepeham is elected as England's new
Archbishop of Canterbury as the candidate of the
Earl of Lancaster leader of the regency council. Mepeham defeats the candidate supported by Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer, and soon works with King Edward III to end Mortimer's power in England. •
December 18 –
Pope John XXII appoints 10 new Roman Catholic cardinals, the most during his papacy, including Jacques Fournier, who will succeed Pope John as
Pope Benedict XII in
1334. •
December 20 – The late King Edward II of England is buried in the
Gloucester Cathedral in
Gloucestershire, three months after his death. •
December 22 –
Ala ud-Din Timurtash, the Viceroy for Anatolia within the
Ilkhanate of the Middle East, and the brother of Demasq Kaja, learns that the Ilkhan
Abu Sa'id had arranged for the execution of Demasq. Fearing for his own safety, Timurtash decides to leave and eventually flees to Egypt, but will be executed there on August 12, 1328.
By topic Literature •
Richard of Wallingford, English cleric and
abbot, describes the construction of an
astronomical clock in his
Tractatus Horologii Astronomici.
Trade and Transport • In
China, the
Grand Canal, which runs from
Beijing to
Hangzhou over a distance of 1,800 km, is completed. == Births ==