1331

Year 1331 (MCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1310s 1320s 1330s 1340s 1350s
Years:	1328 1329 1330 1331 1332 1333 1334

1331 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1331 MCCCXXXI
Ab urbe condita	2084
Armenian calendar	780 ԹՎ ՉՁ
Assyrian calendar	6081
Balinese saka calendar	1252–1253
Bengali calendar	738
Berber calendar	2281
English Regnal year	4 Edw. 3 – 5 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1875
Burmese calendar	693
Byzantine calendar	6839–6840
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4028 or 3821     — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4029 or 3822
Coptic calendar	1047–1048
Discordian calendar	2497
Ethiopian calendar	1323–1324
Hebrew calendar	5091–5092
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1387–1388
- Shaka Samvat	1252–1253
- Kali Yuga	4431–4432
Holocene calendar	11331
Igbo calendar	331–332
Iranian calendar	709–710
Islamic calendar	731–732
Japanese calendar	Gentoku 3 / Genkō 1 (元弘元年)
Javanese calendar	1243–1244
Julian calendar	1331 MCCCXXXI
Korean calendar	3664
Minguo calendar	581 before ROC 民前581年
Nanakshahi calendar	−137
Thai solar calendar	1873–1874
Tibetan calendar	阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) 1457 or 1076 or 304     — to — 阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 1458 or 1077 or 305

Events

September–December

• September 8 – Stefan Dušan declares himself king of Serbia.
• September 27 – Battle of Płowce: The German Teutonic Knights and the Poles battle to a draw.

Date unknown

• The Sieges of Cividale del Friuli and Alicante begin.
• The Genkō War begins in Japan.
• Ibn Battuta visits Kilwa.
• The first recorded outbreak of the Black Death occurs, in the Chinese province of Hubei.

Births

• February 16 – Coluccio Salutati, Florentine political leader (d. 1406)
• April 14 – Jeanne-Marie de Maille, French Roman Catholic saint (b. 1414)
• April 30 – Gaston III, Count of Foix (d. 1391)
• October 4 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (d. 1382)
• date unknown
  • Hamidüddin Aksarayî, Ottoman teacher of Islam (d. 1412)
  • Blanche d'Évreux, queen consort of France (d. 1398)
  • Michael Palaiologos, Byzantine prince
• probable – Salvestro de' Medici, provost of Florence (d. 1388)

Deaths

• January 14 – Odoric of Pordenone, Italian explorer
• April 17 – Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford (b. c. 1257)
• May 12 – Engelbert of Admont, abbot of Admont in Styria
• October 27 – Abulfeda, Kurdish Syrian historian and geographer (b. 1273)
• November 11 – Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia (b. c. 1285)
• December 26 – Philip I, Prince of Taranto, titular Latin Emperor (b. 1278)
• December 30 – Bernard Gui, French inquisitor (b. 1261 or 1262)
• date unknown – Matilda of Hainaut, Princess of Achaea (b. 1293)