1330

1330 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1330
MCCCXXX
Ab urbe condita2083
Armenian calendar779
ԹՎ ՉՀԹ
Assyrian calendar6080
Balinese saka calendar1251–1252
Bengali calendar736–737
Berber calendar2280
English Regnal yearEdw. 3 – 4 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar1874
Burmese calendar692
Byzantine calendar6838–6839
Chinese calendar己巳年 (Earth Snake)
4027 or 3820
    — to —
庚午年 (Metal Horse)
4028 or 3821
Coptic calendar1046–1047
Discordian calendar2496
Ethiopian calendar1322–1323
Hebrew calendar5090–5091
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1386–1387
 - Shaka Samvat1251–1252
 - Kali Yuga4430–4431
Holocene calendar11330
Igbo calendar330–331
Iranian calendar708–709
Islamic calendar730–731
Japanese calendarGentoku 2
(元徳2年)
Javanese calendar1242–1243
Julian calendar1330
MCCCXXX
Korean calendar3663
Minguo calendar582 before ROC
民前582年
Nanakshahi calendar−138
Thai solar calendar1872–1873
Tibetan calendarས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་
(female Earth-Snake)
1456 or 1075 or 303
    — to —
ལྕགས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Iron-Horse)
1457 or 1076 or 304

Year 1330 (MCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

  • May – Odoric of Pordenone narrates the story of his 10 years of missionary travel to China, from which he is newly returned, to Friar William of Solagna in Padua, who records it as the Relatio.[1]
  • July 28 – Battle of Velbazhd: The Bulgarians under Tsar Michael Shishman (who is mortally wounded) are beaten by the Serbs. Bulgaria does not lose any territory to Serbia, but is powerless to stop the Serbian advance towards the predominantly Bulgarian-populated Macedonia.
  • October 19 – King Edward III of England starts his personal reign, arresting his regent Roger Mortimer, and having him executed.
  • November 912 – Battle of Posada: The Wallachians, under Basarab I, defeat the Hungarians, though heavily outnumbered, thus making a firm statement towards the independence of Wallachia.[2]
  • December 6 – The British Isles are hit by a great storm, creating large areas of sand dunes on Anglesey.
  • Undated

Births

Deaths

  • January 13 – Duke Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)
  • January 21 – Joan II, Countess of Burgundy, queen dowager of France (b. 1291)
  • March 19 – Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, son of Edward I and brother of Edward II (executed by Roger Mortimer) (b. 1301)
  • May 3 – Alexios II Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1282)
  • c. July 31 – Tsar Michael Shishman of Bulgaria (b. 1280s?)
  • August 25 – On or about this date, Sir James Douglas, Scottish guerilla leader during the Wars of Scottish Independence (b. circa 1286)
  • September 28 – Elizabeth of Bohemia, queen consort of Bohemia (b. 1292)
  • November 29 – Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (b. 1287)
  • date unknown
    • Pietro Cavallini, Italian artist (b. 1259)
    • Guillaume Durand, French clergyman
    • Immanuel the Roman, Italian scholar and poet (b. 1270)
    • Maximus Planudes, Byzantine grammarian and theologian
    • Uthman ibn Abi al-Ula, Marinid prince and shaykh al-ghuzat of the Emirate of Granada[5]
The Battle of Posada (November 9–12, 1330) in Chronicon Pictum. The Basarab I of Wallachia's army ambushes Charles Robert of Anjou, king of Hungary and his 30,000-strong invading army. The Vlach (Romanian) warriors roll down rocks over the cliff edges in a place where the Hungarian mounted knights cannot escape from them nor climb the heights to dislodge the attackers.

References

  1. ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainYule, Henry; Beazley, C. Raymond (1911). "Odoric". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 10.
  2. ^ Djuvara, Neagu. Thocomerius – Negru Vodă. Un voivod de origine cumană la inceputurile Țării Românești. Bucharest: Humanitas, 2007. ISBN 978-973-50-1731-6.
  3. ^ Miesčionaitienė, Eugenija; Misevičius, Juozas; Stanaitis, Stanislovas; Valaitytė, Violeta (2009). Lietuviai inteligentai tautos laisvės ir pažangos kelyje (PDF). Vilnius: VĮ Mokslotyros institutas. p. 60. ISBN 978-9986-795-61-2. Retrieved June 11, 2023.
  4. ^ "Edward, the Black Prince (1330 - 1376)". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  5. ^ Manzano Rodríguez, Miguel Angel (1992). La intervención de los Benimerines en la Península Ibérica (in Spanish). Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press. p. 351. ISBN 978-84-00-07220-9.