1341 CE

The Queen's College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, is founded. October – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 (between John VI Kantakouzenos and the regency for the infant John V Palaiologos) breaks out. Parliament at Dublin is adjourned to Kilkenny (held in November). Petitions critical of administration are sent to Edward III.

In the 1340s, the 14th century.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • October – parliament at Dublin is adjourned to Kilkenny (held in November). Petitions critical of administration are sent to Edward III.Irelandsource
  • 25 November – order for examination of exchequer and its officials.Irelandsource
  • The sultan of Delhi Muhammad bin Tughluq chooses Ibn Battuta to lead a diplomatic mission to Yuan Dynasty China.source
  • Approximate date – Magnus Erikssons landslag (the Country Law of Magnus IV of Sweden) is promulgated.source

Conflict & Security

  • September–October – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 (between John VI Kantakouzenos and the regency for the infant John V Palaiologos) breaks out.source
  • Tbilisi becomes a capital of European Christian Cathedra, after the city of Smirna. George V (the Brilliant) returns Jerusalem and the Grave of Christ from the Muslims.source
  • Saluzzo is sacked by Manfred V of Saluzzo.source
  • The Breton War of Succession begins, over the control of the Duchy of Brittany.source
  • King Toirdhealbhach of Connacht captures Roscommon castle.Irelandsource

Exploration & Expansion

  • 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.source

Religion & Belief

  • 22 February – Alexander Bicknor, Archbishop of Dublin is appointed 'custos and acting justiciar.Irelandsource
  • April 8 – Petrarch is crowned poet laureate in Rome, the first man since antiquity to be given this honor.source
  • 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.source
  • Saint Bridget of Sweden and her husband Ulf Gudmarsson went on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.source

Economy & Finance

  • 23 January – Ross loses its rights as an open port.Irelandsource

Technology & Infrastructure

  • Casimir III of Poland builds a masonry castle in Lublin, and encircles the city with defensive walls.source

Health & Medicine

  • 27 July – ordinance excluding all but Englishmen beneficed in England from holding office in Ireland.Irelandsource

Crime & Justice

  • 16 March – John Morice is appointed deputy justiciar.Irelandsource
  • 2 August – 2 October – deputy justicier campaigns in Leinster against Mac Murchada.Irelandsource

Climate & Environment

  • January 1 – An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) affects Crimea (disputed event).source
  • 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 (Kochi) harbour, submersion of some islands, and birth of some new islands.source

Culture & Society

  • January 18 – The Queen's College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, is founded.source
  • 5 May – Elizabeth de Burgh, daughter of William Donn, 4th Earl of Ulster, is betrothed to Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (see 9 September).Irelandsource
  • 24 July – general resumption of all grants made since the death of Edward I.Irelandsource
  • 9 September – Elizabeth de Burgh and Lionel of Antwerp are married.Irelandsource
  • Chinese poet Zhang Xian writes the Iron Cannon Affair, about the destructive use of gunpowder and the cannon.source

Births

  • June 5 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of King Edward III of England (died 1402)source
  • September 1 – Frederick the Simple, King of Sicily (died 1377)source
  • November 10 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (died 1408)source
  • Qu You, Chinese novelist (died 1427)source
  • Bonne of Bourbon, Countess regent of Savoy (died 1402)source
  • Hermann II, Landgrave of Hesse (died 1413)source
  • Louis, Duke of Durazzo (died 1376)source

Deaths

  • January 22 – Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (born 1279)source
  • March 2 or October 3 – Martha of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (born 1277)source
  • April 30 – Duke John III of Brittany (born 1286)source
  • June 15 – Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (born 1297)source
  • June 19 – Juliana Falconieri, Italian saint (born 1270)source
  • June – Al-Nasir Muhammad, Sultan of Egypt (born 1295)source
  • August 9 – Eleanor of Anjou, queen consort of Sicily (born 1289)source
  • August 28 – King Leo IV of Armenia (murdered) (born 1309)source
  • December 4 – Janisław, Archbishop of Gnieznosource
  • December – Gediminas, Duke of Lithuaniasource
  • Petrus Filipsson, Archbishop of Uppsalasource
  • Bartholomew II Ghisi, Lord of Tenos and Mykonos, Triarch of Negropontesource
  • probable – Richard Folville, English outlaw and parson (resisting arrest)source
  • Uzbeg Khan, Khan of the Golden Horde (born 1282)source
  • Roger Utlagh, or Roger Outlawe (born 1260) was a leading Irish cleric, judge and statesman who held the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland.Irelandsource
  • Richard de Havering (or Richard de Haverings), a medieval Roman Catholic clergyman who briefly became Archbishop of Dublin.Irelandsource