Year 1336 (MCCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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February 25

• Rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights, 4,000 defenders of Pilėnai, Lithuania commit mass suicide.

• The Kenmu Restoration ends and the Muromachi period begins in Japan; start of the Nanboku-chō period.

  April 18 (unconfirmed) – Brothers Harihara and Bukka Raya found the Vijayanagara Empire on the southern part of the Deccan Plateau in South India.

• April 26 – The Ascent of Mount Ventoux is made by the Italian poet Petrarch: he claims to be the first since classical antiquity to climb a mountain for the view.

• May 19 – The governor of Baghdad, Oirat 'Ali Padsah, defeats Arpa Ke'un near Maraga, contributing to the disintegration of the Ilkhanate.

• July 4 – Battle of Minatogawa: Ashikaga Takauji defeats Japanese Imperial forces, under Kusunoki Masashige and Nitta Yoshisada.

• July 21–22 – Second War of Scottish Independence: Aberdeen, Scotland is burned by the English.

• September 20 – The reign of Emperor Kōmyō, second of the Ashikaga Pretenders to the Northern Court of Japan, begins.</onlyinclude>

Births

• April 9 Timur, founder of the Timurid Empire (d. 1405)

• April 23 Olivier V de Clisson, "the butcher", Breton knight and constable of France (d. 1407)

• July 25 Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1404)

date unknown

• Gao Qi, Chinese poet (d. 1374)

• Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev (died 1406)

probable

• Stefan Uroš V, Emperor of the Serbs (d. 1371)

Deaths

• January 20 John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford (b. 1306)

• February 25 Margiris, Duke of Samogitia

• March 20 Maurice Csák, Hungarian Dominican friar (b. c. 1270)

• May 17 Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)

• July 4 Elizabeth of Portugal, queen consort and saint (b. 1271)

• September 5 Charles d'Évreux (b. 1305)

date unknown

• Bernard VIII, Count of Comminges (b. c. 1285)

• Arpa Ke'un, Ilkhanid ruler

• Guillaume Pierre Godin, French Dominican philosopher (b. c. 1260)

• Hugh II of Arborea

• Ramon Muntaner, Catalan soldier and writer (b. 1270)

• Cino da Pistoia, Italian poet (b. 1270)

• Richard of Wallingford, English monk and mathematician (b. 1292)

• Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din, Ilkhanate politician

• Turgut Alp, Kayı and Ottoman soldier and commander in-chief (b. 1200) at the age of 136.

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