1341
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1341 (MCCCXLI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1341st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 341st year of the 2nd millennium, the 41st year of the 14th century, and the 2nd year of the 1340s decade. As of the start of 1341, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
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Events
- The Queen's College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is founded.
- Petrarch is crowned poet laureate in Rome, the first man since antiquity to be given this honor.
- Beginning of the Breton War of Succession over the control of the Duchy of Brittany
- Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, expels her husband John Henry of Bohemia, to whom she had been married as a child. She subsequently marries Louis of Bavaria without having been divorced, which results in the excommunication of the couple.
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