Editing 1341 (section)

== Events ==
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[[File:Byzantine Empire 1340.png|thumb|The [[Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty|Byzantine Empire]] around the start of the [[Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347]].]]
* [[January 1]] &ndash; An [[earthquake]] with a magnitude of 6.0 and a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VIII (''Severe'') affects [[Crimea]]<ref>{{citation|title=Significant Earthquake Database|url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/form?t=101650&s=1&d=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929000601/http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/form?t=101650&s=1&d=1|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 29, 2006|author=National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS)| year=1972 |publisher=[[National Geophysical Data Center]], [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|NOAA]]|doi=10.7289/V5TD9V7K}}</ref> (disputed event<ref>Papadopoulos, G. A., Diakogianni, G., Fokaefs, A., and Ranguelov, B.: Tsunami hazard in the Black Sea and the Azov Sea: a new tsunami catalogue, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 11, 945–963, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-11-945-2011, 2011.</ref>).
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[The Queen's College, Oxford|The Queen's College]], a constituent college of the [[University of Oxford]] in [[Kingdom of England|England]], is founded.<ref>"History". ''The Queen's College, Oxford''. Archived from the original on 10 January 2021.  ''Retrieved 2 January 2025.''</ref>
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Petrarch]] is crowned poet laureate in Rome, the first man since antiquity to be given this honor.<ref>Kirkham, Victoria (2009). ''Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 9. {{ISBN|978-0226437439}}.</ref>
* [[September]]–[[October]] &ndash; The [[Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347]] (between [[John VI Kantakouzenos]] and the regency for the infant [[John V Palaiologos]]) breaks out.

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* The [[Breton War of Succession]] begins, over the control of the [[Duchy of Brittany]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}
* [[Margarete Maultasch]], Countess of [[County of Tyrol|Tyrol]], expels her husband [[John Henry of Bohemia]], to whom she had been married as a child. She subsequently marries [[Louis V the Brandenburger|Louis of Bavaria]] without having been divorced, which results in the [[excommunication]] of the couple.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}
* [[Tbilisi]] becomes a capital of European Christian Cathedra, after the city of [[Smirna]]. [[George V of Georgia|George V]] (the Brilliant) returns [[Jerusalem]] and the Grave of [[Christ]] from the [[Muslims]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}
* [[Saluzzo]] is sacked by [[Manfred V of Saluzzo]].<ref>"Non iam capitanei, sed reges nominarentur: progetti regi e rivendicazioni politiche nei rituali funerari dei Visconti (XIV secolo)". ''Courts and Courtly Cultures in Early Modern Italy and Europe Models and Languages''. Retrieved 2 January 2025.</ref>
* [[Casimir III of Poland]] builds a masonry castle in [[Lublin]], and encircles the city with defensive walls.<ref>"Tourist Guide: Lublin" (PDF). ''Lublin City Council''. 2009. p. 2. Archived from the original(PDF) on 20 April 2015.</ref>
* The [[Delhi Sultanate|sultan of Delhi]] [[Muhammad bin Tughluq]] chooses [[Ibn Battuta]] to lead a diplomatic mission to [[Yuan Dynasty]] China.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Escape from Delhi to the Maldive Islands and Sri Lanka: 1341 - 1344 {{!}} ORIAS|url=https://orias.berkeley.edu/resources-teachers/travels-ibn-battuta/journey/escape-delhi-maldive-islands-and-sri-lanka-1341-1344|access-date=2021-12-08|website=orias.berkeley.edu}}</ref>
* A [[1341 Floods in Kerala|great flood]] in the river [[Periyar River|Periyar]] in modern-day southern [[India]] leads to the river changing its course, the closing of [[Muziris]], the opening up of [[Cochin]] ([[Kochi, India|Kochi]]) harbour, submersion of some islands, and birth of some new islands.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/more-studies-needed-at-pattanam/article4743789.ece|title=More studies needed at Pattanam|work=The Hindu|date=2013-05-24}}</ref>
* Chinese poet [[Gunpowder warfare#China|Zhang Xian]] writes the ''Iron Cannon Affair'', about the destructive use of [[gunpowder]] and the cannon.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Norris |first=John |title=Early gunpowder artillery c. 1300 - 1600 |date=2003 |publisher=Crowood Press |isbn=978-1-86126-615-6 |location=Ramsbury |pages=11}}</ref>
* Approximate date &ndash; [[Magnus Erikssons landslag]] (the Country Law of [[Magnus IV of Sweden]]) is promulgated.<ref>Ruffert, Matthias (2011). ''Legitimacy in European Administrative Law: Reform and Reconstruction''. Europa Law Publishing. p. 118. {{ISBN|9789089520982}}.</ref>
* The danish king [[Valdemar IV of Denmark|Valdemar IV Atterdag]] sells southern [[Halland]] for 8000 [[Mark (unit)|mark]] to king [[Magnus Eriksson|Magnus Eriksson of Sweden]] in order to finance the [[Valdemar IV of Denmark|reunification of Denmark]].<ref>Harrison, Dick (2020). ”Riket växer”. ''Det svenska rikets födelse''. Historiska media. {{ISBN|978-91-7789-309-7}}</ref>
* [[Bridget of Sweden|Saint Bridget of Sweden]] and her husband Ulf Gudmarsson went on [[pilgrimage]] to [[Santiago de Compostela]].<ref>''Birgitta Birgersdotter, www.skbl.se/sv/artikel/BirgittaBirgersdotter, Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (article by Thomas Lindkvist), retrieved 2025-01-02.''</ref>