Year 1330 ( MCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Monday of the

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Events

January–December

July 28 Events Pre-1600 *1364 – Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina. *1540 – Henry VIII of England marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. *1571 – La Laguna encomienda, known t ...

– Battle of Velbazhd: The

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under Tsar Michael Shishman (who is mortally wounded) are beaten by the

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. Bulgaria does not lose any territory to

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, but is powerless to stop the Serbian advance towards the predominantly Bulgarian-populated Macedonia. * October 19 – King

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starts his personal reign, arresting his regent Roger Mortimer, and having him executed. * November 9– 12 – Battle of Posada: The Wallachians, under Basarab I, defeat the

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, though heavily outnumbered, thus making a firm statement towards the independence of Wallachia. * December 6 – The

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are hit by a great storm, creating large areas of sand dunes on

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. * Undated –

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receives its coat-of-arms, granted to the city in the seventh year of its existence. * Undated – Ivan Alexander becomes the despot of Lovech.

Births

* June 15 – Edward, the Black Prince, son of

(d. 1376) * July 4 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shōgun (d. 1367) * October 25 – Louis II of Flanders (d. 1384) * ''date unknown'' ** Frans Ackerman, Flemish statesman (d. 1387) ** Euphemia of Sicily, princess regent of Sicily (d. 1359) ** Altichiero, Italian painter (d. 1390) ** Nicolas Flamel, French scribe and manuscript-seller, reputed alchemist (d. 1417) ** John Gower, English poet (d. 1410)

Deaths

January 13 Events Pre-1600 * 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years. * 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the ra ...

– Duke Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286) *

January 21 Events Pre-1600 * 763 – Following the Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa, the Alid rebellion ends with the death of Ibrahim, brother of Isa ibn Musa. * 1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded wh ...

– Joan II, Countess of Burgundy, queen dowager of France (b. 1291) * March 19 – Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, son of Edward I and brother of Edward II (executed by Roger Mortimer) (b. 1301) * May 3 – Alexios II Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1282) * c. July 31 – Tsar

Michael Shishman of Bulgaria Michael Asen III (), commonly known as Michael Shishman (), ruled as tsar of Bulgaria from 1323 to 1330. The exact year of his birth is unknown but it was between 1280 and 1292. He was the founder of the last ruling dynasty of the Second Bulgaria ...

(b. 1280s?) * August 25 – On or about this date, Sir James Douglas, Scottish guerilla leader during the Wars of Scottish Independence (b. circa 1286) * September 28 – Elizabeth of Bohemia, queen consort of Bohemia (b. 1292) * November 29 – Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (b. 1287) * ''date unknown'' ** Pietro Cavallini, Italian artist (b. 1259) ** Guillaume Durand, French clergyman ** Immanuel the Roman, Italian scholar and poet (b. 1270) ** Maximus Planudes, Byzantine grammarian and theologian ** Uthman ibn Abi al-Ula, Marinid prince and '' shaykh al-ghuzat'' of the Emirate of Granada Viennese Illuminated Chronicle Posada

References

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