Year 1334 (MCCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• July 18 The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundational stone laid for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral (the tower was designed by the artist Giotto).

• December 30 Pope Benedict XII succeeds Pope John XXII, as the 197th pope.

Date unknown

• Autumn Battle of Adramyttion: A Christian league defeats the fleet of the Turkish Beylik of Karasi.

Births

• January 4 Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy (d. 1383)

• January 13 King Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)

• May 25 Emperor Sukō (d. 1398)

• August 30 King Peter of Castile (d. 1369)

date unknown

• King James I of Cyprus (d. 1398)

• Margaret Graham, Countess of Menteith, Scottish noble (d. c. 1380)

• Hayam Wuruk, Javanese ruler (d. 1389)

Deaths

• January 17 John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond (b. c. 1266)

• December 4 Pope John XXII (b. 1249)

• date unknown Sheikh Safi-ad-din Ardabili of Persia (b. 1251)

• Isabella de Vesci, politically active French noblewoman (b. 1260s)

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