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

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 Hebei.

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 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 missionary friar and explorer (b. c. 1280)

• April 17 Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford, English noble and soldier (b. c. 1257)

• May 12 Engelbert of Admont, abbot in Styria

• October 27 Abulfeda, Kurdish Syrian historian and geographer (b. 1273)

• November 11 King 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)

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