Editing 1321 (section)

=== April &ndash; June ===
* [[April 8]] &ndash; In the [[Delhi Sultanate]] of India, European [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] missionaries who had accompanied [[Jordan Catala|Jordanus]] are killed while stranded on [[Salsette Island]]. Jordan escaped and continued his ministry.
* [[April 12]] &ndash; Sweden's governing council votes to bar foreigners from the royal palace, and to request that the Norwegian council admonish the regent [[Ingeborg of Norway|Ingeborg]] to avoid taking advice from foreigners when making decisions. Ingeborg, who was serving as regent for her minor son, [[Magnus IV of Sweden|King Magnus]], ruler of Sweden and Norway, had become infamous for making decisions without consultation from the councils of either of the kingdoms.
* [[April 14]] &ndash; Prince [[Wenceslaus of Płock]] allies with the Teutonic Knights of Poland and signs an agreement at the city of [[Golub-Dobrzyń|Golub]], pledging to prevent Lithuanian troops from passing through his principality. 
* [[April 19]] &ndash; On [[Easter]], [[Byzantine civil war of 1321–1328|civil war erupts in Byzantium]] as [[Andronikos III Palaiologos|Andronikos Palaiologos]] begins a rebellion against his grandfather, the Byzantine Emperor [[Andronikos II Palaiologos]]. The 24-year-old Andronikos is joined by [[Theodore Synadenos]] and [[John Kantakouzenos]] in the rebellion. 
* [[May 4]] &ndash; The German play ''Ludus de decem virginibus'', a dramatization of the New Testament [[Parable of the Ten Virgins]], is first performed.
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Wars of the Rügen Succession]]: Dukes [[Otto I of Pomerania]], [[Vartislav IV]] of Pomerania-Wolgast and [[Barnim III]] of Pomerania-Stettin reach a mutual inheritance contract with [[Vitslav III of Rügen]].
* [[May 8]] &ndash; In Egypt's Mamluk Sultanate, a campaign by Muslims starts against the Christian settlements of the [[Coptic Orthodox Church]]. Over 60 churches and monasteries are burned. 
* [[May 16]] &ndash; Johan de Bosco, a French person diagnosed with [[leprosy]], claims that a fellow leper, "Geraldus" is attempting to spread their disease by contaminating [[well]]s, fountains, and rivers with bags of powder that will give leprosy to anyone who drinks from the water source. Rumors spread in southern France [[blood libel|that French Jews are responsible]], and is known as the [[1321 lepers' plot]].<ref>David Nirenberg, ''Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages'' (Princeton University Press, 1996) p. 54</ref> 
* [[June 6]] &ndash; Andronikos II Palaiologos concludes a peace agreement and divides the [[Byzantine Empire]] in two. Andronikos III is recognized as co-emperor and receives [[Thrace]] and [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]]. He rewards his followers and gives them towns and regions to administer. [[Adrianople]] becomes the new capital.<ref>Ostrogorsky, George (1969). ''History of the Byzantine State'', pp. 499–501. Rutgers University Press. {{ISBN|0-8135-0599-2}}.</ref>
* [[June 9]] &ndash; Guillaume Agasse, the head of a leper house in [[Pamiers]], claims in a statement to Bishop Jacques Founier (later [[Pope Benedict XII]]) that he had learned that more than fifty officials of leper houses had conspired with the [[Emirate of Granada]] to spread leprosy throughout France.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Barber|first=Malcolm|title=Lepers, Jews and Moslems: The Plot to Overthrow Christendom in 1321|journal=History|year=1981|volume=66|issue=216|page=7|doi=10.1111/j.1468-229x.1981.tb01356.x|pmid=11614633}}</ref>  
* [[June 21]] &ndash; King [[Philip V of France]] orders that all lepers be imprisoned and interrogated. Those found guilty, often under torture, are to be [[death by burning|burnt at the stake]].<ref>Grayzel, Solomon (1947). ''A History of the Jews: From the Babylonian Exile to the End of World War II'', pp. 389–391. Jewish Publication Society of America. {{ISBN|0521524547}}.</ref><ref>Jordan, William Chester (1997). ''The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the early Fourteenth Century'', p. 171. Princeton University Press. {{ISBN|1400822130}}.</ref><ref>McVaugh, Michael R. (2002). ''Medicine Before the Plague: Practitioners and Their Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285–1345'', p. 220. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|0521524547}}.</ref>
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Pope John XXII]] approves a second inquiry into the matter of the [[canonization of Thomas Aquinas]], with four commissioners to take testimony of witnesses.<ref name=Gerulaitis>"The Canonization of Saint Thomas Aquinas", by Leonardas Gerulaitis, ''Vivarium'' 5:25–46 (1967)</ref>