1336

1336 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1336
MCCCXXXVI
Ab urbe condita2089
Armenian calendar785
ԹՎ ՉՁԵ
Assyrian calendar6086
Balinese saka calendar1257–1258
Bengali calendar742–743
Berber calendar2286
English Regnal yearEdw. 3 – 10 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar1880
Burmese calendar698
Byzantine calendar6844–6845
Chinese calendar乙亥年 (Wood Pig)
4033 or 3826
    — to —
丙子年 (Fire Rat)
4034 or 3827
Coptic calendar1052–1053
Discordian calendar2502
Ethiopian calendar1328–1329
Hebrew calendar5096–5097
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1392–1393
 - Shaka Samvat1257–1258
 - Kali Yuga4436–4437
Holocene calendar11336
Igbo calendar336–337
Iranian calendar714–715
Islamic calendar736–737
Japanese calendarShōkei 5
(正慶5年)
Javanese calendar1248–1249
Julian calendar1336
MCCCXXXVI
Korean calendar3669
Minguo calendar576 before ROC
民前576年
Nanakshahi calendar−132
Thai solar calendar1878–1879
Tibetan calendarཤིང་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་
(female Wood-Boar)
1462 or 1081 or 309
    — to —
མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་
(male Fire-Rat)
1463 or 1082 or 310

Year 1336 (MCCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

  • February 25
    • Rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights, 4,000 defenders of Pilėnai, Lithuania commit mass suicide.
    • The Kenmu Restoration ends and the Muromachi period begins in Japan; start of the Nanboku-chō period.
  • April 18 (unconfirmed) – Brothers Harihara and Bukka Raya found the Vijayanagara Empire on the southern part of the Deccan Plateau in South India.[1]
  • April 26 – The Ascent of Mount Ventoux is made by the Italian poet Petrarch: he claims to be the first since classical antiquity to climb a mountain for the view.[2]
  • May 19 – The governor of Baghdad, Oirat 'Ali Padsah, defeats Arpa Ke'un near Maraga, contributing to the disintegration of the Ilkhanate.
  • July 4 – Battle of Minatogawa: Ashikaga Takauji defeats Japanese Imperial forces, under Kusunoki Masashige and Nitta Yoshisada.
  • July 2122 – Second War of Scottish Independence: Aberdeen, Scotland is burned by the English.[3]
  • September 20 – The reign of Emperor Kōmyō, second of the Ashikaga Pretenders to the Northern Court of Japan, begins.

Births

  • April 9Timur, founder of the Timurid Empire (d. 1405)
  • July 25 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1404)
  • date unknown
    • Gao Qi, Chinese poet (d. 1374)
    • Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev (died 1406)
  • probable
    • Stefan Uroš V, Emperor of the Serbs (d. 1371)

Deaths

Emperor Go-Fushimi
  • January 20 – John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford (b. 1306)
  • February 25 – Margiris, Duke of Samogitia
  • March 20 – Maurice Csák, Hungarian Dominican friar (b. c. 1270)[4]
  • May 17 – Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)
  • July 4 – Elizabeth of Portugal, queen consort and saint (b. 1271)
  • September 5 – Charles d'Évreux (b. 1305)
  • date unknown
    • Bernard VIII, Count of Comminges (b. c. 1285)
    • Arpa Ke'un, Ilkhanid ruler
    • Guillaume Pierre Godin, French Dominican philosopher (b. c. 1260)
    • Hugh II of Arborea
    • Ramon Muntaner, Catalan soldier and writer (b. 1270)
    • Cino da Pistoia, Italian poet (b. 1270)
    • Richard of Wallingford, English monk and mathematician (b. 1292)
    • Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din, Ilkhanate politician
    • Turgut Alp, Kayı and Ottoman soldier and commander in-chief (b. 1200) at the age of 136.

References

  1. ^ "Vijayanagar | historical city and empire, India | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved January 1, 2022.
  2. ^ Epistolae familiares IV(1) (c.1350).
  3. ^ "Battles in Aberdeenshire". The Doric Columns. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  4. ^ Madas, Edit (2001). "Boldog Csáki Móric élete [Life of Blessed Maurice Csák]". In Madas, Edit; Klaniczay, Gábor (eds.). Legendák és csodák (13–16. század). Szentek a magyar középkorból II (in Hungarian). Osiris Kiadó. pp. 331–341.