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Year 1341 ( MCCCXLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

* January 1 – An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe'') 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 (between John VI Kantakouzenos and the regency for the infant John V Palaiologos) 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 (the Brilliant) 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 ( Kochi) 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 (the Country Law of Magnus IV of Sweden) is promulgated.

Births

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

Deaths

* January 22 – Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)
* March 2 or October 3 – Martha of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (b. 1277)
* April 30 – John III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1286)
* June – Al-Nasir Muhammad, Sultan of Egypt (b. 1295)
* June 19 – Juliana Falconieri, Italian saint (b. 1270)
* June 15 – Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1297)
* August 9 – Eleanor of Anjou, queen consort of Sicily (b. 1289)
* August 28 – King Levon IV of Armenia (murdered) (b. 1309)
* December – Gediminas, Duke of Lithuania
* December 4 – Janisław I, Archbishop of Gniezno
* ''date unknown''
** Petrus Filipsson, Archbishop of Uppsala
** Uzbeg Khan, Khan of the Golden Horde (b. 1282)
** 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 (resisting arrest)

References

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