1341

'Years:' 1338 1339 1340 - 1341 - 1342 1343 1344

'Decades:' 1310s 1320s 1330s - '1340s' - 1350s 1360s 1370s

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

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ 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.

★ Beginning of the Breton War of Succession 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 wrote the ''Iron Cannon Affair'' about the destructive use of gunpowder and the cannon.

Births

★ June 5 - Edmund of Langley, son of King Edward III of England (died 1402)

★ November 10 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408)

★ Qu You, Chinese novelist (died 1427)

Deaths

★ April 30 - John III, Duke of Brittany (born 1286)

★ June 15 - Andronicus III Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor

★ August 28 - King Leo V of Armenia (murdered) (born 1309)

★ Gediminas, Duke of Lithuania

★ Uzbeg Khan, Khan of the Golden Horde (born 1312)

★ Al-Nasr Muhammad, Sultan of Egypt (born 1295)

★ Richard Folville, English outlaw and parson, dies resisting arrest.