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{{C14 year in topic}}Year '''1333''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCCCXXXIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Friday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== January–December ===
* [[May 18]] – [[Siege of Kamakura (1333)|Siege of Kamakura]] in [[Japan]]: Forces loyal to [[Emperor Go-Daigo]], led by [[Nitta Yoshisada]], enter and destroy the city, breaking the power of the [[Hōjō clan]] over the [[Kamakura shogunate]]. The [[Kamakura period]] ends, and the [[Kenmu Restoration]] under Go-Daigo begins.
* [[June 6]] – [[William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster]], is murdered as part of the [[Burke Civil War]] in [[Ireland]].
* [[June 8]] – King [[Edward III of England]] seizes the [[Isle of Man]] from Scottish control.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/159 159–161]}}</ref>
* [[June 19]] – [[Ashikaga Takauji]] leads his army into [[Kyoto]] as part of the Kenmu Restoration.
* [[July 7]] – The reign of [[Emperor Kōgon]] of [[Japan]], first of the [[Northern Court]] (Ashikaga) Pretenders, ends.
* [[July 19]] – [[Wars of Scottish Independence]] - [[Battle of Halidon Hill]]: Edward III of [[Kingdom of England|England]] decisively defeats [[Archibald Douglas (died 1333)|Sir Archibald Douglas]]. [[Berwick-upon-Tweed]] returns to English control.
* [[November 4]] – The River [[Arno]] floods, causing massive damage in [[Florence]], as recorded by [[Giovanni Villani]].

=== Date unknown ===
* A [[Chinese famine of 1333–1337|famine (lasting until 1337)]] breaks out in [[China]], killing six million.
* A great famine takes place in Southern Europe. It is known to historians of [[Catalonia]] as ''Lo mal any primer'', "the First Bad Year" (equivalent to the [[Great Famine of 1315–1317]] further north), an early notice of the catastrophes of the second half of this century.<ref>{{cite book|last=Nirenberg|first=David|title=Communities of violence: persecution of minorities in the Middle Ages|url=https://archive.org/details/communitiesviole00nire|url-access=limited|year=1998|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton|isbn=0-691-05889-X|page=[https://archive.org/details/communitiesviole00nire/page/n16 18]}}</ref> 
* Jan IV of Dražic, [[List of bishops and archbishops of Prague|Bishop of Prague]], founds a [[Monastery|friary]] and builds a stone bridge at [[Roudnice nad Labem|Roudnice]] in [[Bohemia]].
* The [[Kapellbrücke]] wooden bridge over the [[Reuss (river)|Reuss]] in [[Lucerne]] ([[Switzerland]]) is built; by the 20th century it will be the world's oldest [[truss bridge]] and Europe's oldest [[covered bridge]].
* The Venetian historian [[Marino Sanudo Torsello]] publishes his ''History of the realm of Romania'' (''Istoria del regno di Romania''), one of the most important sources on the history of [[Latin Greece]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Lock | first = Peter | title = The Routledge Companion to the Crusades | publisher = Routledge | year = 2013 | isbn = 9781135131371 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=AkCKZ9Hs4-QC | page = 125}}</ref>
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== Births ==
* ''date unknown''
** [[Kan'ami]], Japanese Noh actor and writer (d. [[1384]])
** [[Helena Kantakouzene]], empress consort of Byzantium (d. [[1396]])
** [[Mikhail II of Tver]] (d. [[1399]])
** [[Peter Parler]], German architect (d. [[1399]])
** [[Carlo Zeno]], Venetian admiral (d. [[1418]])

== Deaths ==
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Nikkō (priest)|Nikko]], Japanese priest, founder of [[Nichiren Shoshu]] Buddhism (b. [[1246]])
* [[March]] &ndash; [[William of Alnwick]], Franciscan friar and theologian
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Władysław I the Elbow-high|King Wladyslaw I of Poland]] (b. [[1261]])
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster]] (b. [[1312]])
* [[June 18]] &ndash; [[Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria]] (b. [[1312]])
* [[July 19]] (at the [[Battle of Halidon Hill]]):
** [[John Campbell, Earl of Atholl]]
** [[Alexander Bruce, Earl of Carrick]]
** [[Archibald Douglas (died 1333)|Sir Archibald Douglas]]
** [[Maol Choluim II, Earl of Lennox]]
** [[Kenneth de Moravia, 4th Earl of Sutherland]]
* [[July 28]] &ndash; [[Guy VIII of Viennois]], Dauphin of Vienne (b. [[1309]])
* [[November 9]] &ndash; Empress [[Saionji Kishi]] of Japan (b. {{c.}}[[1303]])
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[Antipope Nicholas V]]
* ''date unknown''
** [[Prince Morikuni]], 9th and last [[List of shōguns|shōgun]] of the [[Kamakura shogunate]] in Japan. (b. [[1301]])
** [[Nichimoku]], Japanese priest, the 3rd high priest of [[Taisekiji temple]] and Nichiren Shoshu (b. [[1260]])

== References ==
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