1321

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1300s 1310s 1320s 1330s 1340s
Years:	1318 1319 1320 1321 1322 1323 1324

1321 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1321 MCCCXXI
Ab urbe condita	2074
Armenian calendar	770 ԹՎ ՉՀ
Assyrian calendar	6071
Balinese saka calendar	1242–1243
Bengali calendar	728
Berber calendar	2271
English Regnal year	14 Edw. 2 – 15 Edw. 2
Buddhist calendar	1865
Burmese calendar	683
Byzantine calendar	6829–6830
Chinese calendar	庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4018 or 3811     — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4019 or 3812
Coptic calendar	1037–1038
Discordian calendar	2487
Ethiopian calendar	1313–1314
Hebrew calendar	5081–5082
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1377–1378
- Shaka Samvat	1242–1243
- Kali Yuga	4421–4422
Holocene calendar	11321
Igbo calendar	321–322
Iranian calendar	699–700
Islamic calendar	720–721
Japanese calendar	Gen'ō 3 / Genkō 1 (元亨元年)
Javanese calendar	1232–1233
Julian calendar	1321 MCCCXXI
Korean calendar	3654
Minguo calendar	591 before ROC 民前591年
Nanakshahi calendar	−147
Thai solar calendar	1863–1864
Tibetan calendar	阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 1447 or 1066 or 294     — to — 阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 1448 or 1067 or 295

Year 1321 (MCCCXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• c. May–June – Leper scare: Rumours that lepers (acting on the orders of Jews bribed by Moors) are attempting to poison the Christian population spread throughout southern France.
• August 14 – King Edward II of England reluctantly agrees to demands from his barons to send Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester, and his son Hugh Despenser the Younger into exile.
• October 29 – King Stephen Uroš II Milutin of Serbia dies. His son Stephen Constantine claims the throne, but Constantine's younger half-brother Stephen Uroš III Dečanski succeeds.

Date unknown

• The Byzantine civil war of 1321–28 begins, when Andronikos III Palaiologos initiates an uprising against Andronikos II Palaiologos.
• A bad harvest brings famine in Europe.
• The Anatolian beylik of Teke is established.
• Gračanica monastery in Kosovo is rebuilt by the Serbian king Stefan Milutin.
• Spitakavor Monastery is completed in Armenia.
• The University of Florence is established.

Births

• February 5 – John II, Marquess of Montferrat (d. 1372)
• July 5 – Joan of The Tower, queen consort of Scotland (d. 1362)
• August 29 – John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387)
• date unknown
  • James I, Count of Urgell
  • Khwaja Bande Nawaz, Sufi saint (d. 1422)
• probable – Emperor John III of Trebizond (d. 1362)

Deaths

• January 12 or 1322 – Maria of Brabant, queen consort of Philip III of France (b. 1256)
• January 13 – Bonacossa Borri, Lady of Milan (b. 1254)
• February 25 – Beatrice d'Avesnes, consort of Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg
• March 18 – Matthew III Csák, Hungarian oligarch (b. c.1260/5)
• April 8 – Thomas of Tolentino, Italian Franciscan missionary, martyred (b. c. 1255)
• April 17 – Infanta Blanche of Portugal, daughter of King Afonso III of Portugal and Urraca of Castile (b. 1259)
• April 27 – Nicolò Albertini, Italian cardinal statesman (b. c. 1250)
• May 31 – Birger, King of Sweden (b. 1280)
• July 1 – María de Molina, queen consort of Castile (b. c. 1265)
• September 13 or 14 – Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (b. 1265)
• October 29 – Stefan Milutin, King of Serbia (b. c. 1253)
• November 9 – Walter Langton, bishop of Lichfield and treasurer of England (b. 1243)
• date unknown
  • Marianus III of Arborea, Giudice
  • Mubarak Khan, Khilji regent, murdered
  • Reginald of Burgundy, Count of Montbéliard
  • Witte van Haemstede, Dutch prince (b. 1280/2)
• probable – Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi, Arab mathematician (b. 1256)

See also

• List of state leaders in 1321
• 1321 in Scotland