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Year 1336 (MCCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

  • February 25 – 4,000 defenders of Pilėnai commit a mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights
  • February 25 – The Kemmu restoration ends and the Muromachi period begins in Japan.
  • April 26 – Ascent of Mount Ventoux by the Italian poet Petrarch: he claims to be the first since classical antiquity to climb a mountain for the view.
  • July 4 – Battle of Minatogawa: Ashikaga Takauji defeats Japanese Imperial forces under Kusunoki Masashige and Nitta Yoshisada

    • Date unknown

  • The reign of Emperor Kōmyō, second of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders, begins.
  • Vijayanagara is founded on the southern part of the Deccan plateau in India, by the brothers Harihara and Bukka Raya.
  • Aberdeen is burned by the English.

    • Births

  • July 25 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1404)
  • date unknown
  • Gao Qi, Chinese poet (d. 1374)
  • Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (died 1406)
  • Timur, founder of the Timurid Empire (d. 1405)
  • probable
  • Pope Innocent VII (d. 1406)

    • Deaths

  • January 20 – John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford (b. 1306)
  • May 17 – Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)
  • July 4 – Saint Elizabeth of Portugal (b. 1271)
  • September 5 – Charles d'Évreux (b. 1305)
  • date unknown
  • Bernard VIII, Count of Comminges (b. c. 1285)
  • Arpa Ke'un, Ilkhanid emperor
  • Guillaume Pierre Godin, philosopher (b. c. 1260)
  • Hugh II of Arborea
  • Margiris, Duke of Samogitia
  • Ramon Muntaner, Catalan soldier and writer (b. 1270)
  • Cino da Pistoia, Italian poet (b. 1270)
  • Richard of Wallingford, mathematician (b. 1292)

    • References

    1336 Wikipedia
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