1336 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1336
MCCCXXXVI
Ab urbe condita 2089
Armenian calendar 785
ԹՎ ՉՁԵ
Assyrian calendar 6086
Balinese saka calendar 1257–1258
Bengali calendar 742–743
Berber calendar 2286
English Regnal year 9 Edw. 3 – 10 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar 1880
Burmese calendar 698
Byzantine calendar 6844–6845
Chinese calendar 乙亥年 (Wood Pig)
4033 or 3826
    — to —
丙子年 (Fire Rat)
4034 or 3827
Coptic calendar 1052–1053
Discordian calendar 2502
Ethiopian calendar 1328–1329
Hebrew calendar 5096–5097
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1392–1393
 - Shaka Samvat 1257–1258
 - Kali Yuga 4436–4437
Holocene calendar 11336
Igbo calendar 336–337
Iranian calendar 714–715
Islamic calendar 736–737
Japanese calendar Shōkei 5
(正慶５年)
Javanese calendar 1248–1249
Julian calendar 1336
MCCCXXXVI
Korean calendar 3669
Minguo calendar 576 before ROC
民前576年
Nanakshahi calendar −132
Thai solar calendar 1878–1879
Tibetan calendar ཤིང་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་
(female Wood-Boar)
1462 or 1081 or 309
    — to —
མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་
(male Fire-Rat)
1463 or 1082 or 310

Year 1336 (MCCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

  • February 25
    • Rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights, 4,000 defenders of Pilėnai, Lithuania commit mass suicide.
    • The Kenmu Restoration ends and the Muromachi period begins in Japan; start of the Nanboku-chō period.
  • April 18 (unconfirmed) – Brothers Harihara and Bukka Raya found the Vijayanagara Empire on the southern part of the Deccan Plateau in South India.[1]
  • April 26 – The Ascent of Mount Ventoux is made by the Italian poet Petrarch: he claims to be the first since classical antiquity to climb a mountain for the view.[2]
  • May 19 – The governor of Baghdad, Oirat 'Ali Padsah, defeats Arpa Ke'un near Maraga, contributing to the disintegration of the Ilkhanate.
  • July 4 – Battle of Minatogawa: Ashikaga Takauji defeats Japanese Imperial forces, under Kusunoki Masashige and Nitta Yoshisada.
  • July 21–22 – Second War of Scottish Independence: Aberdeen, Scotland is burned by the English.[3]
  • September 20 – The reign of Emperor Kōmyō, second of the Ashikaga Pretenders to the Northern Court of Japan, begins.

Births

  • April 9 – Timur, founder of the Timurid Empire (d. 1405)
  • July 25 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1404)
  • date unknown
    • Gao Qi, Chinese poet (d. 1374)
    • Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev (died 1406)
  • probable
    • Stefan Uroš V, Emperor of the Serbs (d. 1371)

Deaths

Emperor Go-Fushimi
  • January 20 – John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford (b. 1306)
  • February 25 – Margiris, Duke of Samogitia
  • March 20 – Maurice Csák, Hungarian Dominican friar (b. c. 1270)[4]
  • May 17 – Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)
  • July 4 – Elizabeth of Portugal, queen consort and saint (b. 1271)
  • September 5 – Charles d'Évreux (b. 1305)
  • date unknown
    • Bernard VIII, Count of Comminges (b. c. 1285)
    • Arpa Ke'un, Ilkhanid ruler
    • Guillaume Pierre Godin, French Dominican philosopher (b. c. 1260)
    • Hugh II of Arborea
    • Ramon Muntaner, Catalan soldier and writer (b. 1270)
    • Cino da Pistoia, Italian poet (b. 1270)
    • Richard of Wallingford, English monk and mathematician (b. 1292)
    • Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din, Ilkhanate politician
    • Turgut Alp, Kayı and Ottoman soldier and commander in-chief (b. 1200) at the age of 136.

References

  1. ^ "Vijayanagar | historical city and empire, India | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved January 1, 2022.
  2. ^ Epistolae familiares IV(1) (c.1350).
  3. ^ "Battles in Aberdeenshire". The Doric Columns. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  4. ^ Madas, Edit (2001). "Boldog Csáki Móric élete [Life of Blessed Maurice Csák]". In Madas, Edit; Klaniczay, Gábor (eds.). Legendák és csodák (13–16. század). Szentek a magyar középkorból II (in Hungarian). Osiris Kiadó. pp. 331–341.