1341

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1320s 1330s 1340s 1350s 1360s
Years:	1338 1339 1340 1341 1342 1343 1344

1341 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1341 MCCCXLI
Ab urbe condita	2094
Armenian calendar	790 ԹՎ ՉՂ
Assyrian calendar	6091
Balinese saka calendar	1262–1263
Bengali calendar	748
Berber calendar	2291
English Regnal year	14 Edw. 3 – 15 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1885
Burmese calendar	703
Byzantine calendar	6849–6850
Chinese calendar	庚かのえ辰たつ年とし (Metal Dragon) 4038 or 3831     — to — 辛からし巳み年ねん (Metal Snake) 4039 or 3832
Coptic calendar	1057–1058
Discordian calendar	2507
Ethiopian calendar	1333–1334
Hebrew calendar	5101–5102
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1397–1398
- Shaka Samvat	1262–1263
- Kali Yuga	4441–4442
Holocene calendar	11341
Igbo calendar	341–342
Iranian calendar	719–720
Islamic calendar	741–742
Japanese calendar	Ryakuō 4 (暦こよみ応おう４年ねん)
Javanese calendar	1253–1254
Julian calendar	1341 MCCCXLI
Korean calendar	3674
Minguo calendar	571 before ROC 民みん前まえ571年ねん
Nanakshahi calendar	−127
Thai solar calendar	1883–1884
Tibetan calendar	阳金龙年 (male Iron-Dragon) 1467 or 1086 or 314     — to — 阴金蛇へび年ねん (female Iron-Snake) 1468 or 1087 or 315

Year 1341 (MCCCXLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• January 1 – Crimea Earthquake, Ukraine with a magnitude of 6 on the Richter scale.

Date unknown

• 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.
• September–October: The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 between John VI Kantakouzenos and the regency for the infant John V Palaiologos breaks out.
• 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.
• Tbilisi becomes a capital of European Christian Cathedra after city Smirna. George V (the brilliant) returns Jerusalem and Grave of Christ from Muslims.
• Saluzzo is sacked by Manfred V of Saluzzo.
• Casimir III of Poland build a masonry castle in Lublin and encircles the city with defensive walls.
• 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 Yuan Dynasty China.
• The great flood in the river Periyar in what is now southern India which lead to the river changing its course, closing of Muziris, opening up of Cochin (Kochi) harbour submersion of some islands and birth of some new islands.

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)

Deaths

• March 2 – Martha of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (b. 1277)
• April 30 – John III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1286)
• June – Al-Nasir Muhammad, Sultan of Egypt (b. 1295)
• June 12 – Juliana Falconieri, Italian saint (b. 1270)
• June 15 – Andronikos III Palaiologos, 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 – Gediminas, Duke of Lithuania
• December 4 – Janisław I, Archbishop of Gniezno
• date unknown
  • Petrus Filipsson, Archbishop of Uppsala
  • Uzbeg Khan, Khan of the Golden Horde (b. 1282)
  • Nicholas I Sanudo, Duke of the Archipelago
  • Bartholomew II Ghisi, Lord of Tenos and Mykonos, Triarch of Negroponte
• probable – Richard Folville, English outlaw and parson (resisting arrest)