1336

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

1336 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1336 MCCCXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2089
Armenian calendar	785 ԹՎ ՉՁԵ
Assyrian calendar	6086
Balinese saka calendar	1257–1258
Bengali calendar	742–743
Berber calendar	2286
English Regnal year	9 Edw. 3 – 10 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1880
Burmese calendar	698
Byzantine calendar	6844–6845
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 4033 or 3826     — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4034 or 3827
Coptic calendar	1052–1053
Discordian calendar	2502
Ethiopian calendar	1328–1329
Hebrew calendar	5096–5097
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1392–1393
- Shaka Samvat	1257–1258
- Kali Yuga	4436–4437
Holocene calendar	11336
Igbo calendar	336–337
Iranian calendar	714–715
Islamic calendar	736–737
Japanese calendar	Shōkei 5 (正慶５年)
Javanese calendar	1248–1249
Julian calendar	1336 MCCCXXXVI
Korean calendar	3669
Minguo calendar	576 before ROC 民前576年
Nanakshahi calendar	−132
Thai solar calendar	1878–1879
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Boar) 1462 or 1081 or 309     — to — མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Rat) 1463 or 1082 or 310

Events

• February 25
  • Rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights, 4,000 defenders of Pilėnai, Lithuania commit mass suicide.
  • The Kenmu Restoration ends and the Muromachi period begins in Japan; start of the Nanboku-chō period.
• April 18 (unconfirmed) – Brothers Harihara and Bukka Raya found the Vijayanagara Empire on the southern part of the Deccan Plateau in South India.^[1]
• April 26 – The Ascent of Mount Ventoux is made by the Italian poet Petrarch: he claims to be the first since classical antiquity to climb a mountain for the view.^[2]
• May 19 – The governor of Baghdad, Oirat 'Ali Padsah, defeats Arpa Ke'un near Maraga, contributing to the disintegration of the Ilkhanate.
• July 4 – Battle of Minatogawa: Ashikaga Takauji defeats Japanese Imperial forces, under Kusunoki Masashige and Nitta Yoshisada.
• July 21–22 – Second War of Scottish Independence: Aberdeen, Scotland is burned by the English.^[3]
• September 20 – The reign of Emperor Kōmyō, second of the Ashikaga Pretenders to the Northern Court of Japan, begins.

Births

• April 9 – Timur, founder of the Timurid Empire (d. 1405)
• July 25 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1404)
• date unknown
  • Gao Qi, Chinese poet (d. 1374)
  • Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev (died 1406)
• probable
  • Stefan Uroš V, Emperor of the Serbs (d. 1371)

Deaths

Emperor Go-Fushimi

• January 20 – John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford (b. 1306)
• February 25 – Margiris, Duke of Samogitia
• March 20 – Maurice Csák, Hungarian Dominican friar (b. c. 1270)^[4]
• May 17 – Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)
• July 4 – Elizabeth of Portugal, queen consort and saint (b. 1271)
• September 5 – Charles d'Évreux (b. 1305)
• date unknown
  • Bernard VIII, Count of Comminges (b. c. 1285)
  • Arpa Ke'un, Ilkhanid ruler
  • Guillaume Pierre Godin, French Dominican philosopher (b. c. 1260)
  • Hugh II of Arborea
  • Ramon Muntaner, Catalan soldier and writer (b. 1270)
  • Cino da Pistoia, Italian poet (b. 1270)
  • Richard of Wallingford, English monk and mathematician (b. 1292)
  • Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din, Ilkhanate politician
  • Turgut Alp, Kayı and Ottoman soldier and commander in-chief (b. 1200) at the age of 136.