Year 1333 (
MCCCXXXIII) was a
common year starting on Friday
A common year starting on Friday is any non-leap year (i.e. a year with 365 days) that begins on Friday, 1 January, and ends on Friday, 31 December. Its dominical letter hence is C. The most recent year of such kind was 2021 and the next one will ...
(link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* May 18
Events Pre-1600
* 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
* 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 4 ...
– Siege of Kamakura in Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
: Forces loyal to Emperor Go-Daigo, led by Nitta Yoshisada, enter and destroy the city, breaking the power of the Hōjō clan
The was a Japanese samurai family who controlled the hereditary title of ''shikken'' (regent) of the Kamakura shogunate between 1203 and 1333. Despite the title, in practice the family wielded actual political power in Japan during this period ...
over the Kamakura shogunate. The Kamakura period
The is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially established in 1192 in Kamakura by the first ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo after the conclusion of the Genpei War, which saw the struggle betwee ...
ends, and the Kenmu Restoration under Go-Daigo begins.
* June 6
Events Pre-1600
* 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed b ...
– William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, is murdered as part of the Burke Civil War
The Burke/de Burgh Civil War was a conflict in Ireland from 1333 to 1338 between three leading members of the de Burgh (Burke/ Bourke) Anglo-Norman family resulting in the division into three clans.
Background
Twenty-year-old William Donn de ...
in Ireland.
* June 8 – King Edward III of England seizes the Isle of Man from Scottish control.Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
, first of the Northern Court (Ashikaga) Pretenders, ends.
* July 19 – Wars of Scottish Independence - Battle of Halidon Hill
The Battle of Halidon Hill took place on 19 July 1333 when a Scottish army under Sir Archibald Douglas attacked an English army commanded by King Edward III of England () and was heavily defeated. The year before, Edward Balliol had seized ...
: Edward III of England decisively defeats Sir Archibald Douglas. Berwick-upon-Tweed returns to English control.
* November 4 – The River Arno floods, causing massive damage in Florence, as recorded by Giovanni Villani.
Date unknown
* A famine
A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, natural disasters, crop failure, Demographic trap, population imbalance, widespread poverty, an Financial crisis, economic catastrophe or government policies. Th ...
(lasting until 1337
Year 1337 ( MCCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* March 16 – Edward, the Black Prince establishes the Duchy of Cornwall, beco ...
) breaks out in China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
, killing six million.
* 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.
* Jan IV of Dražic, Bishop of Prague
The following is a list of bishops and archbishops of Prague. The bishopric of Prague was established in 973, and elevated to an archbishopric on 30 April 1344. The current Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Prague is the continual successor of the bis ...
, founds a friary
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which ...
and builds a stone bridge at Roudnice
Roudnice is a municipality and village in Hradec Králové District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 700 inhabitants.
Etymology
The name is derived from the red shades of color (in Czech ''rudá'') of the water in ...
in Bohemia
Bohemia ( ; cs, Čechy ; ; hsb, Čěska; szl, Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohem ...
.
* The Kapellbrücke wooden bridge over the Reuss Reuss may refer to:
*Reuss (surname)
*Reuss (river) in Switzerland
*Reuss (state) or Reuß, several former states or countries in present-day Germany, and the Republic of Reuss
*Reuss Elder Line and Reuss Younger Line (House of Reuss), members incl ...
in Lucerne
Lucerne ( , ; High Alemannic German, High Alemannic: ''Lozärn'') or Luzern ()Other languages: gsw, Lozärn, label=Lucerne German; it, Lucerna ; rm, Lucerna . is a city in central Switzerland, in the Languages of Switzerland, German-speaking po ...
(Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
) is built; by the 20th century it will be the world's oldest truss bridge and Europe's oldest covered bridge.
* The Venetian historian Marino Sanudo Torsello
Marino Sanuto (or Sanudo) Torsello (c. 1270–1343) was a Venetian statesman and geographer. He is best known for his lifelong attempts to revive the crusading spirit and movement; with this objective he wrote his '' Liber Secretorum Fidelium Cr ...
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
The ''Frankokratia'' ( el, Φραγκοκρατία, la, Francocratia, sometimes anglicized as Francocracy, "rule of the Franks"), also known as ''Latinokratia'' ( el, Λατινοκρατία, la, Latinocratia, "rule of the Latins") and ...
.
Births
* ''date unknown''
**
Kan'ami, Japanese noh actor and writer (d.
1384
Year 1384 ( MCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* May – September 3 – Siege of Lisbon by the Castilian army, during the 1 ...
)
**
Helena Kantakouzene, empress consort of Byzantium (d.
1396
Year 1396 ( MCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* May 19 – Martin I succeeds his brother, John I, as King of Aragon (modern-day ...
)
**
Mikhail II of Tver (d.
1399
Year 1399 ( MCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events January–December
* January – Timur the Lame captures and sacks Haridwar.
* February 3 – ...
)
**
Peter Parler
Peter Parler (german: Peter von Gemünd, cs, Petr Parléř, la, Petrus de Gemunden in Suevia; 1333 – 13 July 1399) was a German-Bohemian architect and sculptor from the Parler family of master builders. Along with his father, Heinrich Parler, ...
, German architect (d.
1399
Year 1399 ( MCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events January–December
* January – Timur the Lame captures and sacks Haridwar.
* February 3 – ...
)
**
Carlo Zeno
Carlo Zeno (or Zen) (1333 – 8 March 1418) was an Italian admiral from Venice, who is considered a hero of the War of Chioggia against the Republic of Genoa.
Early life
Destined for an ecclesiastical career, Zeno studied at Padua, but dedicat ...
, Venetian admiral (d.
1418
Year 1418 ( MCDXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* January 31 – Mircea I of Wallachia is succeeded by Michael I of Wallachia.
* ...
)
Deaths
*
February 7 –
Nikko, Japanese priest, founder of
Nichiren Shoshu
Nichiren (16 February 1222 – 13 October 1282) was a Japanese Buddhist priest and philosopher of the Kamakura period.
Nichiren declared that the Lotus Sutra alone contains the highest truth of Buddhist teachings suited for the Third Age of B ...
Buddhism (b.
1246
Year 1246 ( MCCXLVI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* February 28 – Siege of Jaén: Castilian forces, led by King Ferdinand III (the Sai ...
)
* March –
William of Alnwick, Franciscan friar and theologian
*
March 2 –
King Wladyslaw I of Poland (b.
1261
Year 1261 ( MCCLXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* March 13 – Treaty of Nymphaeum: Emperor Michael VIII (Palaiologos) sig ...
)
*
June 6
Events Pre-1600
* 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed b ...
–
William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster (b.
1312
Year 1312 ( MCCCXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* June 15 – Battle of Rozgony
The Battle of Rozgony or Battle of Rozhanovce was f ...
)
*
June 18 –
Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria Henry XV, duke of Bavaria, as duke of Lower Bavaria also called Henry III, (28 August 1312 – 18 June 1333 in Natternberg near Deggendorf).
Biography
Henry was a son of Otto III, Duke of Bavaria and Agnes Glowgow (born 1293-96 – died 25 Decem ...
(b.
1312
Year 1312 ( MCCCXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* June 15 – Battle of Rozgony
The Battle of Rozgony or Battle of Rozhanovce was f ...
)
*
July 19 (at the
Battle of Halidon Hill
The Battle of Halidon Hill took place on 19 July 1333 when a Scottish army under Sir Archibald Douglas attacked an English army commanded by King Edward III of England () and was heavily defeated. The year before, Edward Balliol had seized ...
):
**
John Campbell, Earl of Atholl
John Campbell, Earl of Atholl (died 1333) was a Scottish nobleman.
Background
John, also known as Iain, was the son of Sir Neil Campbell by his wife Mary Bruce. His grandparents were Sir Cailean Mór Campbell, Afraig of Carrick, Robert de Brus, ...
**
Alexander Bruce, Earl of Carrick
**
Sir Archibald Douglas
**
Maol Choluim II, Earl of Lennox
Mormaer Maol Choluim II of Lennox (anglicised Malcolm II of Lennox) (died 19 July 1333) was mormaer (the Celtic equivalent of an earl) of Lennox from 1303 to his death.
Maol Cholium's father, Maol Choluim I embraced the cause of Robert the Bru ...
**
Kenneth de Moravia, 4th Earl of Sutherland
Kenneth de Moravia (also known as Kenneth Sutherland) (died 19 July 1333) was the 4th Earl of Sutherland and chief of the Clan Sutherland, a Scottish clan of the Scottish Highlands.
Early life
Kenneth de Moravia, 4th Earl of Sutherland was the ...
*
July 28 –
Guy VIII of Viennois
Guigues VIII de la Tour-du-Pin (1309 – 28 July 1333) was the Dauphin of Vienne from 1318 to his death. He was the eldest son of the Dauphin John II and Beatrice of Hungary.
Career
Only nine years of age when his father died, he succeeded ...
, Dauphin of Vienne (b.
1309
Year 1309 (Roman numerals, MCCCIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* March 14 – Sultan Muhammad III of Granada, Muhammad III is depos ...
)
*
November 9
Events Pre-1600
* 694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
* 1277 – The Treaty of Aberconwy, a humiliating settlement f ...
– Empress
Saionji Kishi
, or more formally , was an Empress consort of Japan. She was the consort of Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan.Mori Shigeaki. Go-Daigo tennō: nanboku-chō dōran o irodotta haō (後醍醐天皇: 南北朝動乱を彩った覇王). Tokyo: Chūōkōrons ...
of Japan (b.
1303
Year 1303 ( MCCCIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* September – Emperor Andronikos II (Palaiologos) facing a possible sieg ...
)
*
October 16 –
Antipope Nicholas V
Nicholas V, born Pietro Rainalducci (c. 125816 October 1333) was an antipope in Italy from 12 May 1328 to 25 July 1330 during the pontificate of Pope John XXII (1316–1334) at Avignon. He was the last antipope set up by a Holy Roman Emperor.
...
* ''date unknown''
**
Prince Morikuni
was the ninth ''shōgun'' of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan.
He was a son of the eighth ''shōgun'' Prince Hisaaki and was a grandson of the Emperor Go-Fukakusa. He was also a puppet ruler controlled by Hōjō Takatoki, who was the Kamakura s ...
, 9th and last
shōgun of the
Kamakura shogunate in Japan. (b.
1301
Year 1301 ( MCCCI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* January 14 – With the death of King Andrew III (the Venetian) (probably poisoned), ...
)
**
Nichimoku
, Buddhist name: ''Niidakyo Ajari Nichimoku'', was a junior disciple of Nichiren who sided with Nikkō Shōnin after Nichiren's death. Nikkō Shōnin later appointed Nichimoku as his successor as Head Priest (''Kancho'') of Taiseki-ji temple.
Pi ...
, Japanese priest, the 3rd high priest of
Taisekiji temple
, more commonly just , informally known as , is the administrative center of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism. It is located in the foothills of Mount Fuji in Kamijo, Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
Taiseki-ji was founded in 1290 by Nikkō Shōn ...
and Nichiren Shoshu (b.
1260
Year 1260 ( MCCLX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place Africa
* October 24 – Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seiz ...
)
References
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