1333 CE

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. Wars of Scottish Independence - Battle of Halidon Hill: Edward III of England decisively defeats Sir Archibald Douglas. Berwick-upon-Tweed returns to English control. The River Arno floods, causing massive damage in Florence, as recorded by Giovanni Villani.

In the 1330s, the 14th century.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

Conflict & Security

  • May 18 – 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.source
  • June 8 – King Edward III of England seizes the Isle of Man from Scottish control.source
  • June 19 – Ashikaga Takauji leads his army into Kyoto as part of the Kenmu Restoration.source
  • July 7 – The reign of Emperor Kōgon of Japan, first of the Northern Court (Ashikaga) Pretenders, ends.source
  • July 19 – Wars of Scottish Independence - Battle of Halidon Hill: Edward III of England decisively defeats Sir Archibald Douglas. Berwick-upon-Tweed returns to English control.source
  • 19 July – Battle of Halidon Hill results in decisive English victoryScotlandsource
  • Ó Ceallaigh of Uí Maine at war with Ó ConchobhairIrelandsource
  • Conchobhar O Domhnaill succeeds his father, Áed, as King of Tír ConaillIrelandsource

Religion & Belief

  • Friar John Clyn (died 1349) begins his chronicle, "The Annals of Ireland"Irelandsource

Technology & Infrastructure

  • Jan IV of Dražic, Bishop of Prague, founds a friary and builds a stone bridge at Roudnice in Bohemia.source
  • The Kapellbrücke wooden bridge over the 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.source

Crime & Justice

  • Maurice FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond, releasedIrelandsource
  • Donnchadh mac Aedh Ó Ceallaigh captured and imprisoned by King Toirdhelbach of ConnachtIrelandsource

Climate & Environment

  • November 4 – The River Arno floods, causing massive damage in Florence, as recorded by Giovanni Villani.source
  • A famine (lasting until 1337) breaks out in China, killing six million.source
  • 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.source

Culture & Society

  • 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.source

Births

  • Carlo Zeno, Venetian admiral (died 1418)source
  • Kan'ami, Japanese Noh actor and writer (died 1384)source
  • Peter Parler, German architect (died 1399)source
  • Helena Kantakouzene, empress consort of Byzantium (died 1396)source

Deaths

  • February 7 – Nikko, Japanese priest, founder of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism (born 1246)source
  • March 2 – King Wladyslaw I of Poland (born 1261)source
  • March – William of Alnwick, Franciscan friar and theologiansource
  • June 6 – William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, is murdered as part of the Burke Civil War in Ireland.source
  • June 6 – William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster (born 1312)source
  • 6 June – William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, murdered in the Burke Civil WarIrelandsource
  • June 18 – Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria (born 1312)source
  • July 19 – Kenneth de Moravia, 4th Earl of Sutherland — at the Battle of Halidon Hillsource
  • July 19 – Sir Archibald Douglas — at the Battle of Halidon Hillsource
  • 19 July – William IV, Lord of Douglas, killed at Battle of Halidon HillScotlandsource
  • 19 July – Sir Archibald Douglas, killed at Battle of Halidon HillScotlandsource
  • July 28 – Guy VIII of Viennois, Dauphin of Vienne (born 1309)source
  • November 9 – Empress Saionji Kishi of Japan (born c. 1303)source
  • Nichimoku, Japanese priest, the 3rd high priest of Taisekiji temple and Nichiren Shoshu (born 1260)source
  • Prince Morikuni, 9th and last shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate in Japan. (born 1301)source
  • King Áed of Tír Conaill; "after taking the habit of a Grey Cistercian monk upon him, died in his own strong hold and was buried in the church of the Monastery of Eassa Ruadh."Irelandsource