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Year '''1331''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCCCXXXI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==

=== September&ndash;December ===
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[Stefan Dušan]] declares himself king of [[Kingdom of Serbia (medieval)|Serbia]].
* [[September 27]] &ndash; [[Battle of Płowce]]: The German [[Teutonic Knights]] and the [[Kingdom of Poland|Poles]] battle to a draw.

=== Date unknown ===
* The Sieges of [[Cividale del Friuli]] and [[Alicante]] begin.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cannon Timeline|url=http://www.themcs.org/weaponry/cannon/cannon.htm|publisher=The Medieval Combat Society|year=2008|access-date=2011-12-13|archive-date=January 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104202027/http://www.themcs.org/weaponry/cannon/cannon.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* The [[Genkō War]] begins in Japan.
* [[Ibn Battuta]] visits [[Kilwa Kisiwani|Kilwa]].
* The first recorded outbreak of the [[Black Death]] occurs, in the Chinese province of Hubei.

== Births ==
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Coluccio Salutati]], Florentine political leader (d. [[1406]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Jeanne-Marie de Maille]], French Roman Catholic saint (b. [[1414]])    
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[Gaston III, Count of Foix]] (d. [[1391]])
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde]] (d. [[1382]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Hamidüddin Aksarayî]], Ottoman teacher of Islam (d. [[1412]])
** [[Blanche d'Évreux]], queen consort of France (d. [[1398]])
** [[Michael Palaiologos (son of Andronikos III)|Michael Palaiologos]], Byzantine prince
* ''probable'' &ndash; [[Salvestro de' Medici]], provost of Florence (d. [[1388]])

== Deaths ==
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Odoric of Pordenone]], Italian explorer
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford]] (b. c. [[1257]])
* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[Engelbert of Admont]], abbot of Admont in Styria
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Abulfeda]], Kurdish Syrian historian and geographer (b. [[1273]])
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia]] (b. c. [[1285]])
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[Philip I, Prince of Taranto]], titular Latin Emperor (b. [[1278]])
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Bernard Gui]], French inquisitor (b. [[1261]] or [[1262]])
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Matilda of Hainaut]], Princess of Achaea (b. [[1293]])

== References ==
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