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19 October - King Edward III of England starts his personal reign, arresting his regent Roger Mortimer.
29 November - Execution of Mortimer.
Approximate date of completion of the tower and spire of Salisbury Cathedral.
1331
Butchers' Guild granted the right to regulate the meat trade in the City of London.
1332
14 January - Sir Richard de Willoughby, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, is captured and ransomed by the Folville gang.
10 August–11 August - Second War of Scottish Independence: Edward Balliol, pretender to the Scottish throne, and his English allies defeat troops loyal to Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Dupplin Moor.
12 December - Second War of Scottish Independence: Balliol forced to flee to England.
1333
25 March - Second War of Scottish Independence: An English victory over the Scots at the Battle of Dornock.
May - Second War of Scottish Independence: David II of Scotland flees to France allowing his rival Balliol to recognise Edward III as overlord. Balliol cedes Berwick-upon-Tweed and eight Southern Scottish counties to Edward.
May - Second War of Scottish Independence: Balliol, with English support, besieges Berwick.
8 June - Edward III seizes the Isle of Man from Scottish control.
19 July - Second War of Scottish Independence: A decisive English victory over the Scots is won at the Battle of Halidon Hill, and Berwick falls.
3 November - John de Stratford enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
November - Following violence between masters at the University of Oxford, a group of them migrate to Stamford, Lincolnshire, and attempts to set up a university there. In August 1334, the Chancellor of Oxford obtains a royal writ to suppress it, and it is closed in summer 1335.
1334
February - Second War of Scottish Independence: Edward Balliol cedes Berwick to England.
June - Second War of Scottish Independence: Balliol cedes the counties of southern Scotland to England and recognises Edward III as his overlord.
September - Second War of Scottish Independence: English armies enter southern Scotland to put down rebellions.
1335
30 July - Second War of Scottish Independence: Scottish victory over the English at the Battle of Boroughmuir.
30 November - Second War of Scottish Independence: Robert the Bruce loyalists win a victory over Edward Balliol and his English allies at the Battle of Culblean.
Parliament meets in York; subsequently it will normally meet at Westminster (London).
John Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter, establishes The King's School, Ottery St Mary (Devon) as a College of Secular Canons.
1336
English troops burn Aberdeen in Scotland.
August - England bans wool exports to Flanders.
September - Parliament votes for taxes to fund a war against France.
Sumptuary law regulates dress according to the wearer's social class.
1337
17 March - Edward, the Black Prince is created Duke of Cornwall, becoming the first English Duke, and is granted the Forest of Dartmoor, much of which remains as part of the Duchy of Cornwall into the 21st century.
24 May - Philip VI of France confiscates Gascony from English control.
August - English forces relieve Stirling Castle, ending Edward III's last Scottish campaign.
October - Edward III formally rejects Philip VI's claim to the French throne, initiating the Hundred Years' War (1337–1360).
November - Battle of Cadsand: English troops raid the Flemish island of Cadzand.
Bisham Priory founded.
Rebuilding of Gloucester Abbey in perpendicular style begins.
1338
July - Edward III issues the Walton Ordinances at Walton-on-the-Naze, giving emergency powers to royal officials in order to raise funds for the war effort.
5 September - Hundred Years' War: Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor appoints Edward III a vicar-general of the Holy Roman Empire. Louis supports Edward's claim to the French throne under the terms of the Treaty of Koblenz.
Philip VI of France's navy attacks and burns Portsmouth.
1339
Hundred Years' War: French fleet raids Dover and Folkestone.
3 December - Hundred Years' War: England allies with Flanders against the French.
Births
1330
15 June - Edward, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (died 1376)
John Gower, English poet (died 1410)
1332
William Langland, poet (died 1400)
Deaths
1330
19 March - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, son of Edward I and brother of Edward II, (executed by Roger Mortimer) (born 1301)
29 November - Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (born 1287)
1332
20 July - Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland
Adam de Brome, founder of Oriel College, Oxford
1336
23 May - Richard of Wallingford, mathematician and Abbot of St. Albans (born 1292)
1339
Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (born 1260)
