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'Years:' 1333 1334 1335 - 1336 - 1337 1338 1339

'Decades:' 1300s 1310s 1320s - '1330s' - 1340s 1350s 1360s

'Centuries:' 13th century - '14th century' - 15th century

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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ End of the Kemmu restoration and beginning of the Muromachi period in Japan.

★ Start of the reign of Emperor Kōmyō, second of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders

★ Foundation of Vijayanagara on the southern part of the Deccan plateau in India by the brothers Harihara and Bukka Raya.

★ Aberdeen is burned by the English.

Births

★ April 14 - Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (died 1374)

★ July 25 - Albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404)

★ King Albert of Sweden (died 1412)

★ Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (died 1406)

★ Pope Gregory XI (died 1378)

★ Pope Innocent VII (died 1406)

★ Gao Qi, Chinese poet (died 1374)

★ Tamerlane, founder of the Timurid Empire (died 1405)

Deaths

★ May 17 - Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (born 1288)

★ July 4 - Elizabeth of Portugal, Catholic saint (born 1271)

★ Bagdad Katun, Chobanid princess

★ Arpa Ke'un, Ilkhanid emperor

★ Ramon Muntaner, Catalan soldier and writer (born 1270)

★ Cino da Pistoia, Italian poet (born 1270)