1341

Events

 * , a constituent college of the, is founded.
 * is crowned poet laureate in Rome, the first man since antiquity to be given this honor.
 * Beginning of the over the control of the.
 * , Countess of, expels her husband , to whom she had been married as a child. She subsequently marries without having been divorced, which results in the  of the couple.
 * is sacked by.
 * The Chinese poet wrote the   Affair about the destructive use of  and the cannon.
 * The of  chooses  to lead a diplomatic mission to.

Births

 * -, son of King (died )
 * -, English statesman (d. )
 * , Chinese novelist (died )

Deaths

 * - (born )
 * - King (murdered) (born )
 * , Khan of the Golden Horde (born )
 * , Sultan of Egypt (born )
 * , English outlaw and parson, dies resisting arrest.
 * , Sultan of Egypt (born )
 * , English outlaw and parson, dies resisting arrest.