1326

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Year 1326 (MCCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• 10 February–11 March – Raid on Brandenburg: Allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland led by Władysław I the Elbow-high and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania led by the pagan Gediminas raid Louis V of Germany's Margraviate of Brandenburg (within the Holy Roman Empire) with the sanction of Pope John XXII.
• 19 April – A peace treaty in the peasant revolt in Flanders 1323-1328 is ratified.
• 3 June – The Treaty of Novgorod delineates the border between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
• 24 September – The invasion of England.
• October – Ibn Battuta reaches Mecca.

Date unknown

• Orhan I succeeds Osman I on the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
• Ingeborg of Norway is deposed from political power in Sweden.
• The use of the word "cannon" is first recorded in reference to a firearm.
• Foundation of Clare College, the University of Cambridge's second oldest (still surviving) college.
• The foundation of Oriel College, the University of Oxford's fifth oldest (still surviving) college, is confirmed by royal charter.

Births

• 5 March – King Louis I of Hungary (d. 1382)
• 30 March – Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Muscovy (d. 1359)
• 8 May – Joanna I of Auvergne, queen consort of France (d. 1360)
• 29 June – Murad I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1389)
• date unknown
  • Olivier de Clisson (The Butcher), French soldier (d. 1407)
  • Robert of Durazzo, Neapolitan nobleman (d. 1356)
  • Isaac ben Sheshet, Spanish Talmudic authority (d. 1408)
  • Imagawa Sadayo, Japanese poet and soldier (d. 1420)
  • Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor Ningzong of Yuan (d. 1332)
• probable
  • Manuel Kantakouzenos, despot of Morea (d. 1380)
  • Seii, King of Chuzan (d. c. 1354)

Deaths

• 28 February – Duke Leopold I of Austria (b. 1290)
• 26 March – Alessandra Giliani, anatomist (b. c. 1307)
• 9 April – Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland (b. 1293)
• 29 April – Blanche of Burgundy, queen consort of France (b. c. 1296)
• 31 May – Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley, English rebel baron (b. 1271)
• 29 July – Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster (b. 1259)
• 15 October – Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (b. 1261)
• 27 October – Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester (executed; b. 1262)
• 17 November – Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
• 25 November – Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1264)
• 26 November – Hugh the younger Despenser, English knight (executed; b. 1286)
• 20 December – Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow
• date unknown
  • John Palaiologos, Byzantine nobleman (b. 1288/89)
  • Mondino de Liuzzi, Italian anatomist (b. 1275)
  • Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1258)
  • Ser Petracco, father of Petrarch (b. 1267)

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