1341

Year 1341 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1341

* The Queen's College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is founded.
* Petrarch is crowned poet laureate in Rome, the first man since antiquity to be given this honor.
* The Breton War of Succession begins over the control of the Duchy of Brittany.
* Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, expels her husband John Henry of Bohemia, to whom she had been married as a child. She subsequently marries Louis of Bavaria without having been divorced, which results in the excommunication of the couple.
* Saluzzo is sacked by Manfred V of Saluzzo.
* The Chinese poet Zhang Xian writes the "Iron Cannon Affair" about the destructive use of gunpowder and the cannon.
* The sultan of Delhi chooses Ibn Battuta to lead a diplomatic mission to Ancient China.

Births

* June 5 - Edmund of Langley, son of King Edward III of England (d. 1402)
* September 1 - Frederick III the Simple, King of Sicily (d. 1377)
* November 10 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408)
*"date unknown"
**Bonne of Bourbon, Countess of Savoy (d. 1402)
**Hermann II, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1413)
**Louis, Duke of Durazzo (d. 1376)
**Qu You, Chinese novelist (d. 1427)

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Deaths

* April 30 - John III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1286)
* June 12 - Juliana Falconieri, Italian saint (b. 1270)
* June 15 - Andronicus III Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1297)
* August 9 - Eleanor of Anjou, queen consort of Sicily (b. 1289)
* August 28 - King Levon IV of Armenia (murdered) (b. 1309)
* December 4 - Janisław I, Archbishop of Gniezno
*"date unknown"
**Petrus Filipsson, Archbishop of Uppsala
**Gediminas, Duke of Lithuania
**Uzbeg Khan, Khan of the Golden Horde (b. 1282)
**Martha of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (b. 1277)
**Al-Nasr Muhammad, Sultan of Egypt (b. 1295)
**Nicholas I Sanudo, Duke of the Archipelago
*"probable" - Richard Folville, English outlaw and parson (resisting arrest)

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