1334

Portal history | Portal Biographies | Current events | Annual calendar

◄ | 13th century | 14th century | 15th century | ►
◄ | 1300s | 1310s | 1320s | 1330s | 1340s | 1350s | 1360s | ►
◄◄ | ◄ | 1330 | 1331 | 1332 | 1333 | 1334 | 1335 | 1336 | 1337 | 1338 | ► | ►►

Heads of State · Nekrolog

 Map with all linked sites: OSM | WikiMap

1334
Giotto becomes chief builder for Florence Cathedral .	Jacques Fournier , who worked as an expert in the Eckhart trial , becomes Pope Benedict XII.
The Cologne Charterhouse is founded.
1334 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	782/783 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1326/27
Aztec calendar	10th house - Matlactli Calli (until the end of January / beginning of February 9th Feuerstein - Chicuhnahui Tecpatl )
Buddhist calendar	1877/78 (southern Buddhism); 1876/77 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	67th (68th) cycle Year of the Wood Dog甲戌 ( at the beginning of the year water tap 癸酉)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	696/697 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	712/713
Islamic calendar	734/735 (turn of the year August 31 / September 1)
Jewish calendar	5094/95 (August 31 / September 1)
Coptic calendar	1050/51
Malayalam calendar	509/510
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1644/45 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1645/46 (turn of the year October)
Spanish era	1372
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1390/91

Events

Politics and world events

Europe

• October 9 : Casimir III. , King of Poland from the Kujaw Piast dynasty , on the occasion of his accession to the throne, issued the statute of Wiślica for the establishment of a state unit for Lesser Poland . The reasons for the adoption of the statute are the creation of a generally binding legal framework, the strengthening of the rights of the peasant class and the Jews, which are of great importance for the development of trade, especially with their credit transactions and the mints they manage. The statute made Poland a refuge for Jews from Europe-wide persecution for centuries.

Coat of arms of Pope Benedict XII.

• December 13th to 20th : Jacques Fournier , who worked as an inquisitor among other things as an expert in the Eckhart trial, is appointed by the conclave after one-week deliberations as the successor of Johannes XXII , who died on December 4th . elected Pope and takes the name Benedict XII. on. The second Avignon Pope , like his predecessor Ludwig, will not recognize Bavaria as king and will have a papal palace built in Avignon . In contrast to his predecessors, however, he combats nepotism in the church and reduces war spending from 64% to 6% of the papal budget.

• The Rudolstadt office is acquired by the Counts of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg from the property of the Counts of Orlamünde .

City rights and first documentary mentions

• Hettstedt and Heubach receive city ​​rights .
• The Georgenberg in Micheldorf / Upper Austria is first mentioned in a document as St. Jörgerberg . The spread of the archaeological finds is about 1800 years.
• Schwechat is first mentioned as a market.
• First documented mention of Bauen , Dörnach and Tscheppach

science and technology

Matthaios Blastares, Syntagma kata stoicheion in the manuscript written in 1368/1369

• The canonist and theologian Matthaios Blastares begins in Thessaloniki , where he lives as Hieromonachos in the Kyr Isaak monastery, with the work on his main work, the late Byzantine legal collection Syntagma kata stoicheion .
• The Collège des Lombards , one of the schools of the University of Paris , is founded by André Ghini, Bishop of Arras, for eleven scholars from Italy.
• Konrad von Megenberg received a professorship at the University of Paris after completing his studies in Artes Liberales .

Culture

The Campanile in Florence designed by Giotto and his successors

• Giotto becomes chief builder of the Duomo in Florence . Because of his old age, he turned his main attention to the construction of a more than 110 meter high campanile , the completion of which still seems possible during his lifetime.

The house of the Blackheads on Rathausplatz after its true to original reconstruction

• The House of the Blackheads in Riga is mentioned for the first time in a document as the New House of the Great Guild . It serves both the merchants and the predominantly German citizens of Riga for meetings and corresponds to the Arthurian courts built in other cities at the time . The house, built in Gothic style, with its steep gable roof, whose ridge reaches a height of 27 meters, corresponds to a medieval house.

society

• Burchard Grelle , Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Bremen , forbids the traders and showmen of the folk festival at Hamburg's Mariendom to be present in the cathedral.

religion

• May: Pope John XXII. introduces the Feast of Trinity in the Calendarium Romanum Generale .
• December 6th : Archbishop Walram von Jülich of Cologne issues the deed of foundation for the Cologne Charterhouse .

• The Franciscan and chronicle of the order Angelus Clarenus has to flee again from the Benedictine Abbey of Subiaco from persecution by the Inquisition and seeks refuge in a southern Italian hermit community.
• The general minister of the Franciscans, Michael von Cesena , who is in exile with King Ludwig IV in Munich after he met Pope John XXII. Has accused heresy and has been sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia, demands in an appeal a council superordinate to the Pope , which should settle the controversy between Ludwig and the Pope.

Disasters

• November 23rd : The heavy Clemens flood rages on the North Sea . The villages of Arngast and Jadelee go under on the coast and the Jade Bay is greatly expanded.

Born

Date of birth saved

• January 4th : Amadeus VI. , Count of Savoy († 1383 )
• January 13 : Henry II , King of Castile and León († 1379 )

• May 25 : Sukō , Japanese Emperor of the North Court († 1398 )
• August 30 : Peter I , King of Castile († 1369 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Jacques de Guyse , Franciscan and historian († 1399 )
• James I , King of Cyprus († 1398 )
• Kunigunde von Sayn , German nobleman and countess of Westerburg († 1383 )
• Luigi II Gonzaga , Count of Mantua († 1382 )
• an-Nasir al-Hasan , Sultan of Egypt († 1361 )
• Ala'a ad-Din Kudschuk , Sultan of the Mamluks († 1345 )
• María de Padilla , mistress of Peter I of Castile and León († 1361 )
• Hayam Wuruk , King of the Majapahit Empire († 1389 )

Died

Date of death secured

• January 14th : Nikolaus von Stralendorf , Canon of Lübeck and Schwerin
• January 17th : John of Brittany , Earl of Richmond (* 1266 )
• March 28 : Rudolf III. von Montfort , Bishop of Chur and Constance (* around 1270 )
• April 9 : Heinrich Wogenap , Bishop of Warmia

• June 7th : Emich I. Count of Nassau-Hadamar
• 23 August : Syrgiannes Palaiologos , Byzantine aristocrat and general (* around 1290 )

• September 10 : Durandus of St. Pourçain , Bishop of Limoux (* around 1270 )
• September 25th : Philip I , Lord of Piedmont and Prince of Achaia (* 1278 )

• October 30 : Wocho , Bishop of Seckau
• November 23 : Ulrich I , Landgrave of Leuchtenberg (* 1293 )
• November 27th : Agnes von Brandenburg , Margravine of Brandenburg and Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg (* 1298 )

• December 4 : Isabel le Despenser , English nobleman (* around 1290 )
• December 4th : John XXII. , Pope of the Roman Catholic Church (* around 1245 )
• December 14th : Otto IV. , Duke of Lower Bavaria-Landshut (* 1307 )

Exact date of death unknown

• February: Ulrich I , Abbot of St. Blasien
• before March 1st : James Audley , English knight (* before 1289)

• Safi ad-Din Ardabili , Persian clergyman (* 1252 )
• Haukr Erlendsson , Icelandic lawyer
• Henry Cliffe , English cleric (* around 1280)
• Johann III. , Count von Gützkow
• Johannes I. , Abbot of Münsterschwarzach
• Saen Phu , King of the Lan Na Empire in Northern Thailand
• Tarmashirin , Khan of the Chgatai Mongols

Web links

Commons : 1334  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files