Year 1324 (MCCCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Marsilius of Padua writes his defence of the secular state, Defensor pacis.
Emperor Musa I of Mali arrives in Cairo on his hajj to Mecca accompanied by an entourage numbering in the thousands and with hundreds of pounds of gold. This display of wealth garners the Mali Empire a place on European maps in 1395. On his return journey, he peacefully annexes Timbuktu.
The weak Black Death epidemic spreads through the southern parts of Asia.
March 5 – King David II of Scotland (d. 1371)
date unknown
Prince Dmitry of Suzdal (d. 1383)
Louis of Durazzo, Count of Gravina and Morrone (d. 1362)
Giovanni Manfredi, lord of Faenza (d. 1373)
Prince Tsunenaga, Japanese imperial prince (d. 1338)
probable – Manuel II, Emperor of Trebizond (d. 1333)
January 9 – Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)
February 11 – Karl von Trier, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
March 26 – Marie de Luxembourg, Queen of France (b. 1304) (carriage accident)
June 23 – Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (b. 1270)
July 16 – Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267)
August 16 or August 17 – Irene of Brunswick, Empress of Constantinople (b. c. 1293)
August 31 – Henry II of Jerusalem (b. 1271)
November 1 – John de Halton, Bishop of Carlisle
November 3 – Petronilla de Meath, Irish servant and suspected witch (burned at stake)
date unknown
Dino Compagni, Italian historian (b. c. 1255)
Hedwig of Holstein, queen consort of Sweden (b. 1260)
King Sancho of Majorca (b. 1274)
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