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== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Canton of Bern|Bern]] signs an alliance with the [[Old Swiss Confederacy]].
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[War of the Straits]] and [[Sardinian–Aragonese war]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Alghero]] results in a crushing victory of the allied Aragonese and Venetian fleet over the Genoese fleet, most of which is captured.<ref>{{cite book | last = Musarra | first = Antonio | title = Il Grifo e il Leone: Genova e Venezia in lotta per il Mediterraneo | year = 2020 | publisher = Editori Laterza | location = Bari and Rome | isbn = 978-88-581-4072-7 | language = Italian | pages=237–238 }}</ref>

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* The [[Moroccan people|Moroccan]] traveler [[Ibn Battuta]] makes the first recorded visit to [[Timbuktu]] and [[Kabara, Mali|Kabara]], when returning from a stay in the capital of the [[Mali Empire]].<ref>{{cite book|editor1-link=Nehemia Levtzion|editor1-last=Levtzion|editor1-first=Nehemia|editor2-last=Hopkins|editor2-first=John F. P.|title=Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West Africa|publisher=Marcus Weiner Press|location=New York|year=2000|isbn=1-55876-241-8|page=299}}</ref>
* ''[[The Decameron]]'' is finished by [[Giovanni Boccaccio]].
* The [[Black Death]] ([[1331]]) subsides.
* The [[Lao people|Lao]] kingdom of [[Lan Xang]] is founded by [[Fa Ngum]].</onlyinclude>