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== Events ==
=== January &ndash; March ===
* [[January 3]] &ndash; The Taiding Era begins in China three months after [[Yesün Temür (Yuan dynasty)|Borjigin Yesün Temür]] ascends the throne. 
* [[January 23]] &ndash; England's envoy to France, [[Ralph Basset, 2nd Baron Basset of Drayton|Ralph Basset]], and Raymond-Bernard de Montpezat, decline to obey an order to appear before King [[Charles IV of France]] to answer for the October 16 burning of [[Saint-Sardos, Lot-et-Garonne|Saint-Sardos]]. King Charles orders their properties forfeited to the crown.
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Siege of Villa di Chiesa]]: Aragonese forces led by [[Alfonso IV of Aragon|Prince Alfonso the Kind]] capture the city of [[Iglesias, Sardinia|Villa di Chiesa]] due to attrition. The Pisan garrison surrenders after an 8-month siege. It represents the first act of the [[Aragonese conquest of Sardinia]], for the creation of the [[Kingdom of Sardinia]].<ref>O'Callaghan, Joseph F. (1975). ''A History of Medieval Spain'', p. 408. Cornell University Press.</ref> 
* [[February 29]] &ndash; [[Battle of Lucocisterna]]: Aragonese forces led by Prince Alfonso defeat a Pisan army, which is disembarked near the area of [[Capoterra]]. During the battle, Alfonso loses some 150 knights. On the same day, a Pisan fleet (some 30 galleys) is defeated in the [[Golfo di Cagliari|Gulf of Cagliari]] at [[Sardinia]].<ref>Casula, Francesco Cesare (1994). ''La storia di Sardegna: L'evo moderno e contemporaneo'' (in Italian), p. 343. Delfino. {{ISBN|88-7138-063-0}}.</ref>
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Pope John XXII]] excommunicates [[Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Ludwig the Bavarian]], King of the Germans, as Louis had not sought papal approval during his conflict against his rival [[Frederick the Fair]]. Ludwig, in turn, declares the pope a heretic, because of John's opposition to the view of [[Absolute poverty of Christ|Christ's absolute poverty]] held by some Franciscans.<ref name=Cassell>Anthony K. Cassell, ''The Monarchia Controversy'' (Catholic University of America Press. 2004) p.35</ref> 
* [[March 26]] &ndash; [[Marie of Luxembourg, Queen of France|Marie of Luxembourg]], Queen of [[France in the Middle Ages|France]], dies of injuries after falling from a carriage while she and King Charles IV of France were riding from Paris and Avignon. After she fell, she had gone into labor and given birth prematurely to a daughter, who died shortly afterward.
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Hugh IV of Cyprus|Hugh IV]] becomes the new [[King of Cyprus]] upon the death of his father, [[Henry II of Cyprus|King Henry II]]. Hugh also inherits Henry's nominal title of "[[King of Jerusalem]]".<ref>George Hill, ''A History of Cyprus'' (Cambridge University Press, 1948) p.283</ref>

=== April &ndash; June ===
* [[April 15]] &ndash; The coronation of King [[Hugh IV of Cyprus]], nephew of the late King Henry II, takes place at the [[Selimiye Mosque, Nicosia|Cathedral of Saint Sophia]] in [[Nicosia]].
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Bolesław III the Generous|Boleslaw III, Duke of Wroclaw]], declares his Polish duchy to be a vassal of the Holy Roman Empire as part of a defense agreement made with [[Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Ludwig the Bavarian, King of Germany]].
* [[May 3]] &ndash; France's [[Consistori del Gay Saber]] holds its first annual contest to determine the best poet in the Kingdom. [[Arnaut Vidal de Castelnou d'Ari]] wins the first prize, the ''violeta d'aur''. The contest continues for 160 years, ceasing in [[1484]].
* [[May 22]] &ndash; King Ludwig the Bavarian comes to the defense of the [[Fraticelli|Spiritual Franciscans]], delivering a sharp criticism of [[Pope John XXII]], whom Ludwig describes as a heretic.
* [[June 11]] &ndash; The Byzantine Empire, represented by diplomatic envoy Stephen Syropoulos, signs a treaty with the Republic of Venice, led by the Doge Giovanni Soranzo.<ref>Donald M. Nicol, ''Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations'' (Cambridge University Press, 1992) p.248</ref> 
* [[June 13]] &ndash; King Edward II of England dispatches his envoy, [[Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke]] to France in an attempt to negotiate a peaceful end to the Saint-Sardos incident. Stopping at [[Saint-Riquier]] 10 days later, Pembroke dies of a heart attack before reaching Paris.<ref name=Sumption>Jonathan Sumption, ''The Hundred Years War, Volume 1: Trial by Battle'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999) p.94-95</ref>
* [[June 24]]
**King Charles IV of France issues an order declaring the [[Duchy of Aquitaine]], French territory ruled by King Edward II of England, forfeited to the crown. The move comes after King Edward fails to render [[commendation ceremony|homage]], as Duke of Aquitaine, to King Charles.<ref name=Spinks>Stephen Spinks, ''Robert the Bruce: Champion of a Nation'' (Amberley Publishing, 2019)</ref> A French army of 7,000 men is massed at the border of Aquitaine for an invasion.
**[[Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Ludwig the Bavarian]], King of the Germans, gives the [[Duchy of Pomerania]] (now part of Germany and Poland) to his son, [[Louis V, Duke of Bavaria|Ludwig]], [[Margrave of Brandenburg]], exacerbating the [[Brandenburg–Pomeranian conflict]].<ref>Gerhard Heitz and Henning Rischer, ''Geschichte in Daten. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern'' (Koehler & Amelang, 1995), p.180</ref>

=== July &ndash; September ===
* [[July 5]] &ndash; A royal wedding takes place in France as King Charles IV marries his cousin [[Joan of Évreux]], the 14-year-old daughter of his uncle, [[Louis, Count of Évreux]].<ref>David d'Avray, ''Papacy, Monarchy and Marriage 860–1600'' (Cambridge University Press, 2015) p.232</ref>
* [[July 11]] &ndash; [[Pope John XXII]] declares that [[Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Ludwig the Bavarian]] will be deposed as King of the Germans<ref name=Cassell/> because of his March 23 excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church. King Ludwig continues his reign and in the 1325 Treaty of Trausnitz made his rival, the Habsburg claimant Friedrich, his co-king. 
* [[July 19]] &ndash; (26 Rajab 724 AH) [[Mansa Musa]], the extraordinarily-wealthy Emperor of Africa's [[Mali Empire]], arrives in [[Cairo]] after three days of camping by the pyramids of Giza, and brings with him a large entourage of fellow Muslim pilgrims and a vast supply of gold.<ref>Michael A. Gomez, ''[[African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa]]'' (Princeton University Press, 2018) p.114</ref> Musa, who is making the pilgrimage to [[Mecca]], meets with Egypt's Sultan [[al-Nasir Muhammad]] and stays in Cairo for three months before departing with the pilgrims on [[October 18]].<ref name="John F. P 1981 p.355">Nehemia Levtzion and John F. P. Hopkins,  eds., ''Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West Africa'' (Marcus Weiner Press, 1981) p.355</ref>
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Basarab I of Wallachia|Basarab I]], ruler of [[Wallachia]] (now part of Romania) is designated by [[Charles I of Hungary|King Károly Róbert]] of Hungary as a subject of the Hungarian crown.<ref>István Vásáry, ''Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185–1365'' (Cambridge University Press, 2005) p.149</ref>
* [[August 5]] &ndash; The [[Blitar Regency]] is established on the island of [[Java]] (now part of Indonesia) by Java's King Jayanegara of Majapahit. [https://www.blitarkab.go.id/2012/06/05/sejarah-kabupaten-blitar/ "Sejarah Kabupaten Blitar"] ("History of Blitar Regency"), Pemerintah Kabupaten Blitar (Blitar Regency Government, 2012)
* [[August 15]] &ndash; The coronation of [[Christopher II of Denmark|King Christopher II]] of [[Denmark]] (who has ruled since 1320) takes place at [[Vordingborg]], with his son [[Eric Christoffersen of Denmark|Prince Erik Christoffersen]] being crowned alongside him as the ''samkonge'', a junior co-monarch.<ref>[https://runeberg.org/dbl/4/0556.html "Erik, o. 1307—1332"], by Johannes C. H. R. Steenstrup, in ''Dansk biografisk Lexikon'' Volume IV (Clemens - Eynden), ed. by Carl Frederik Bricka (Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1890) p. 554</ref>
* [[August 16]] &ndash; In Italy, [[Pagano della Torre]], Patriarch of Aquileia, is defeated in battle at [[Vaprio d'Agogna]] in [[Piedmont]] in his attempt to reclaim [[Milan]] from the [[Visconti of Milan|Visconti family]], and abandons further crusades. 
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[War of Metz|War of Four Lords]]: In Western Europe, King [[John of Bohemia|John the Blind]] of Bohemia, his uncle [[Baldwin of Luxembourg|Baldwin, Archbishop of Trier]], Count [[Edward I, Count of Bar|Edward I]] of Bar and Duke [[Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine|Frederick the Fighter]] of Lorraine, meet at [[Remich]] (now in [[Luxembourg]]) and make plans to work jointly on besieging the city of [[Metz]] (now in France).
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[James III of Majorca|James the Unfortunate]] becomes the new [[List of monarchs of Majorca|King of Majorca]], a set of islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain, upon the death of his uncle, [[Sancho of Majorca|King Sancho the Peaceful]].<ref>Henry Charles Shelley, ''Majorca'' (Methuen & Company, 1926) pp. 42–45, 187</ref>
* [[September 11]] &ndash; When the body of King Sancho of Majorca arrives in the French city of [[Perpignan]] for interment at the [[Perpignan Cathedral]], a mob attacks the funeral procession and steals valuables that had accompanied the corpse.<ref>Philip Daileader, ''True Citizens: Violence, Memory, and Identity in the Medieval Community of Perpignan, 1162-1397'' (BRILL, 2000) p.105</ref>
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[War of Metz|War of Four Lords]]: The armies of Bohemia, Luxembourg, Bar and Lorraine begin their siege of the walled city of [[Metz]], capital of the [[History of Metz#Messin Republic|Messin Republic]]. The attackers use a new weapon, the [[cannon]], to fire projectiles at high speed against the city walls in order to destroy the city.<ref>Kelly de Vries and Robert Douglas Smith (2012). ''Medieval Military Technology'', p. 138, (2nd edit). University of Toronto Press.</ref> The group withdraws at the end of the month after plundering the surrounding area. 
* [[September 22]] &ndash; The [[War of Saint-Sardos]] ends after [[Charles, Count of Valois]] forces the surrender of [[Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent]] at [[La Réole]], the last English fortress at the Duchy of Aquitaine. A six-month truce follows<ref>"Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent (1301–1330): a study of personal loyalty", by Penny Lawne, in ''Fourteenth Century England'', ed. by Chris Given-Wilson (Boydell & Brewer, 2010) p.34</ref>

=== October &ndash; December ===
* [[October 7]] &ndash; ([[Genkō (1321–24)|Genko]] 4, 19th day of 9th month) The [[:ja:正中の変|Shōchū Incident]], the plan by Japan's Emperor Go-Daigo to overthrow the Kamakura shogunate, is discovered by the shogun's security police, the [[Rokuhara Tandai]], and persons involved (other than the Emperor) are arrested and punished.
* [[October 18]] &ndash; (28 Shawwal 724 AH) After he and his entourage of Muslim pilgrims have stayed in [[Cairo]] for three months, the Emperor [[Mansa Musa]] of Africa's [[Mali Empire]] resumes the group's pilgrimage to [[Mecca]]<ref name="John F. P 1981 p.355"/>
* [[November 3]] &ndash; At [[Kilkenny]] in Ireland, [[Petronilla de Meath]], the maidservant of Dame [[Alice Kyteler]], becomes the first person in the British Isles to be burned at the stake as a witch. Dame Alice had been able to escape before capture.<ref>Sharon Davidson and John O. Ward, ''The Sorcery Trial of Alice Kyteler: A Contemporary Account'' (Pegasus Press, 2004)</ref> 
* [[November 10]] &ndash; Pope John XXII issues the papal bull ''Quia quorundam'', his third major statement concerning apostolic poverty and the [[Fraticelli]], in response to a claim that an earlier bull by [[Pope Nicholas III]] had implied that Christ and the apostles had lived without possessions.<ref>Massimiliano Traversino di Cristo, ''Against the Backdrop of Sovereignty and Absolutism: The Theology of God's Power and Its Bearing on the Western Legal Tradition, 1100–1600'' (Brill, 2022) p.75</ref> In addition, Pope John restates the doctrine of [[Papal infallibility]], declaring that "What the Roman pontiffs have once defined in faith and morals with the key of knowledge stands so immutably that it is not permitted to a successor to revoke it."<ref>Brian Tierney, ''Origins of Papal Infallibility, 1150-1350'' (E. J. Brill, 1972) p.186</ref>
* [[November 22]] &ndash; In Italy, [[Marsilio da Carrara]] becomes the new [[Lords of Padua|Lord of Padua]] upon the death of his uncle, [[Jacopo I da Carrara]].<ref>"Carrara, Giacomo da", in ''Biografico degli Italiani, 1977'', ed. by M. Chiara Ganguzza Billanovich (1977)</ref> 
* [[December 25]] &ndash; The [[Shōchū (era)|Shōchū era]] begins in Japan during the reign of the [[Emperor Go-Daigo]].

=== By place ===
==== Asia Minor ====
* Ottoman Sultan [[Osman I]] dies after a 25-year reign at [[Bursa]]. He is the founder of the [[Ottoman Empire]] (first known as a Turkmen principality in the northwest of [[Anatolia]]). He is succeeded by his 43-year-old son [[Orhan|Orhan I]] as the second ruler (''[[bey]]''), who places his residence at [[Söğüt]] in [[Bilecik Province]] (approximate date).<ref>Rogers, Clifford (2010). ''The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology'', p. 261. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|9780195334036}}.</ref>

=== By topic ===

==== Literature ====
* [[Marsilius of Padua]] writes ''[[Defensor pacis]]'' ("The Defender of Peace"), a theological treatise arguing against the power of the clergy and in favor of a secular state.<ref>Hywel Williams (2005). ''Cassell's Chronology of World History'', p. 158. {{ISBN|0-304-35730-8}}.</ref>

==== Religion ====
* [[William of Ockham]], English Franciscan friar and philosopher, is summoned by John XXII to the papal court at [[Avignon]] and imprisoned.<ref>Olson, Roger E. (1999). ''The Story of Christian Theology'', p. 350. {{ISBN|0-8308-1505-8}}.</ref>