1341
Year 1341 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
File:Byzantine Empire 1340.png|thumb|The Byzantine Empire around the start of the Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347.
- January 1 - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII affects Crimea.
- January 18 - The Queen's College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, is founded.
- April 8 - Petrarch is crowned poet laureate in Rome, the first man since antiquity to be given this honor.
- September–October - The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 breaks out.
Date unknown
- The Breton War of Succession begins, 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.
- Tbilisi becomes a capital of European Christian Cathedra, after the city of Smirna. George V returns Jerusalem and the Grave of Christ from the Muslims.
- Saluzzo is sacked by Manfred V of Saluzzo.
- Casimir III of Poland builds a masonry castle in Lublin, and encircles the city with defensive walls.
- The sultan of Delhi Muhammad bin Tughluq chooses Ibn Battuta to lead a diplomatic mission to Yuan Dynasty China.
- A great flood in the river Periyar in modern-day southern India leads to the river changing its course, the closing of Muziris, the opening up of Cochin harbour, submersion of some islands, and birth of some new islands.
- Chinese poet Zhang Xian writes the Iron Cannon Affair, about the destructive use of gunpowder and the cannon.
- Approximate date - Magnus Erikssons landslag is promulgated.
- The danish king Valdemar IV Atterdag sells southern Halland for 8000 mark to king Magnus Eriksson of Sweden in order to finance the reunification of Denmark.
- Saint Bridget of Sweden and her husband Ulf Gudmarsson went on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.
Births
- June 5 - Edmund of Langley, son of King Edward III of England
- September 1 - Frederick III the Simple, King of Sicily
- November 10 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman
- date unknown
- * Bonne of Bourbon, Countess regent of Savoy
- * Hermann II, Landgrave of Hesse
- * Louis, Duke of Durazzo
- * Qu You, Chinese novelist
Deaths
- January 22 - Louis I, Duke of Bourbon
- March 2 or October 3 - Martha of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden
- April 30 - John III, Duke of Brittany
- June - Al-Nasir Muhammad, Sultan of Egypt
- June 19 - Juliana Falconieri, Italian saint
- June 15 - Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor
- August 9 - Eleanor of Anjou, queen consort of Sicily
- August 28 - King Levon IV of Armenia
- December - Gediminas, Duke of Lithuania
- December 4 - Janisław, Archbishop of Gniezno
- date unknown
- * Petrus Filipsson, Archbishop of Uppsala
- * Uzbeg Khan, Khan of the Golden Horde
- * Nicholas I Sanudo, Duke of the Archipelago
- * Bartholomew II Ghisi, Lord of Tenos and Mykonos, Triarch of Negroponte
- probable - Richard Folville, English outlaw and parson