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| Centuries: | 13th century - 14th century - 15th century |
| Decades: | 1310s 1320s 1330s - 1340s - 1350s 1360s 1370s |
| Years: | 1338 1339 1340 - 1341 - 1342 1343 1344 |
| 1341 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1341 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1341
- 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.
- The Breton War of Succession begins 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.
- Saluzzo is sacked by Manfred V of Saluzzo.
- The Chinese poet Zhang Xian writes the Iron Cannon Affair about the destructive use of gunpowder and the cannon.
- The sultan of Delhi chooses Ibn Battuta to lead a diplomatic mission to Ancient China.
| Gregorian calendar | 1341 MCCCXLI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2094 |
| Armenian calendar | 790 ԹՎ ՉՂ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -503 – -502 |
| Berber calendar | 2291 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1885 |
| Burmese calendar | 703 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6849 – 6850 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚辰年十二月十三日 (3977/4037-12-13) — to —
辛巳年十一月廿三日(3978/4038-11-23) |
| Coptic calendar | 1057 – 1058 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1333 – 1334 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5101 – 5102 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1396 – 1397 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1263 – 1264 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4442 – 4443 |
| Holocene calendar | 11341 |
| Iranian calendar | 719 – 720 |
| Islamic calendar | 741 – 742 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3674 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1884 |
Births
- June 5 - Edmund of Langley, son of King Edward III of England (d. 1402)
- September 1 - Frederick III the Simple, King of Sicily (d. 1377)
- November 10 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408)
- date unknown
- Bonne of Bourbon, Countess of Savoy (d. 1402)
- Hermann II, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1413)
- Louis, Duke of Durazzo (d. 1376)
- Qu You, Chinese novelist (d. 1427)
- Also see Category:1341 births.
Deaths
- April 30 - John III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1286)
- June 12 - Juliana Falconieri, Italian saint (b. 1270)
- June 15 - Andronicus III Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1297)
- August 9 - Eleanor of Anjou, queen consort of Sicily (b. 1289)
- August 28 - King Levon IV of Armenia (murdered) (b. 1309)
- December 4 - Janisław I, Archbishop of Gniezno
- date unknown
- Petrus Filipsson, Archbishop of Uppsala
- Gediminas, Duke of Lithuania
- Uzbeg Khan, Khan of the Golden Horde (b. 1282)
- Martha of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (b. 1277)
- Al-Nasr Muhammad, Sultan of Egypt (b. 1295)
- Nicholas I Sanudo, Duke of the Archipelago
- probable - Richard Folville, English outlaw and parson (resisting arrest)
- Also see Category:1341 deaths.