1336

Events

• The Kemmu restoration ends and the Muromachi period begins in Japan.
• The reign of Emperor Kōmyō, second of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders, begins.
• Vijayanagara is founded on the southern part of the Deccan plateau in India, by the brothers Harihara and Bukka Raya.
• Aberdeen is burned by the English.

Births

• April 14 - Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (d. 1374)
• July 25 - Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1404)
• date unknown
• Gao Qi, Chinese poet (d. 1374)
• Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (died 1406)
• Tamerlane, founder of the Timurid Empire (d. 1405)
• probable
• Pope Gregory XI (d. 1378)
• Pope Innocent VII (d. 1406)

Deaths

• January 20 - John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford (b. 1306)
• May 17 - Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)
• July 4 - Saint Elizabeth of Portugal (b. 1271)
• September 5 - Charles d'Évreux (b. 1305)
• date unknown
• Bernard VIII, Count of Comminges (b. c. 1285)
• Arpa Ke'un, Ilkhanid emperor
• Guillaume Pierre Godin, philosopher (b. c. 1260)
• Hugh II of Arborea
• Margiris, Duke of Samogitia
• Ramon Muntaner, Catalan soldier and writer (b. 1270)
• Cino da Pistoia, Italian poet (b. 1270)
• Richard of Wallingford, mathematician (b. 1292)

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