1324

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1300s 1310s 1320s 1330s 1340s
Years:	1321 1322 1323 1324 1325 1326 1327

1324 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1324 MCCCXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2077
Armenian calendar	773 ԹՎ ՉՀԳ
Assyrian calendar	6074
Balinese saka calendar	1245–1246
Bengali calendar	731
Berber calendar	2274
English Regnal year	17 Edw. 2 – 18 Edw. 2
Buddhist calendar	1868
Burmese calendar	686
Byzantine calendar	6832–6833
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4021 or 3814     — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4022 or 3815
Coptic calendar	1040–1041
Discordian calendar	2490
Ethiopian calendar	1316–1317
Hebrew calendar	5084–5085
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1380–1381
- Shaka Samvat	1245–1246
- Kali Yuga	4424–4425
Holocene calendar	11324
Igbo calendar	324–325
Iranian calendar	702–703
Islamic calendar	723–725
Japanese calendar	Genkō 4 / Shōchū 1 (正中元年)
Javanese calendar	1235–1236
Julian calendar	1324 MCCCXXIV
Korean calendar	3657
Minguo calendar	588 before ROC 民前588年
Nanakshahi calendar	−144
Thai solar calendar	1866–1867
Tibetan calendar	阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) 1450 or 1069 or 297     — to — 阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) 1451 or 1070 or 298

Year 1324 (MCCCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Date unknown

• Marsilius of Padua writes his defence of the secular state, Defensor pacis.
• Emperor Musa I of Mali arrives in Cairo on his hajj to Mecca, accompanied by an entourage numbering in the thousands, and with hundreds of pounds of gold. This display of wealth garners the Mali Empire a place on European maps in 1395. On his return journey, he peacefully annexes Timbuktu. He is said to have told the Arabic historian Al-Umari that "his predecessors had launched two expeditions from West Africa to discover the limits of the Atlantic Ocean."
• The weak Black Death epidemic spreads through the southern parts of Asia.

Births

• March 5 – King David II of Scotland (d. 1371)
• date unknown
  • Prince Dmitry of Suzdal (d. 1383)
  • Louis of Durazzo, Count of Gravina and Morrone (d. 1362)
  • Constance of Sicily, princess regent of Sicily (d. 1355)
  • Giovanni Manfredi, lord of Faenza (d. 1373)
  • Prince Tsunenaga, Japanese imperial prince (d. 1338)
• probable – Manuel II, Emperor of Trebizond (d. 1333)

Deaths

Emperor Go-Uda

• January 8 or January 9 – Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)
• February 11 – Karl von Trier, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
• March 26 – Marie de Luxembourg, Queen of France (b. 1304) (carriage accident)
• June 23 – Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (b. c.1275)
• July 16 – Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1265)
• August 16 or August 17 – Irene of Brunswick, Empress of Constantinople (b. c. 1293)
• August 31 – Henry II of Jerusalem (b. 1271)
• November 1 – John de Halton, Bishop of Carlisle
• November 3 – Petronilla de Meath, Irish servant and suspected witch (burned at stake)
• date unknown
  • Dino Compagni, Italian historian (b. c. 1255)
  • Hedwig of Holstein, queen consort of Sweden (b. 1260)
  • King Sancho of Majorca (b. 1274)