1333
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1300s 1310s 1320s – 1330s – 1340s 1350s 1360s |
| Years: | 1330 1331 1332 – 1333 – 1334 1335 1336 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1333 MCCCXXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2086 |
| Armenian calendar | 782 ԹՎ ՉՁԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6083 |
| Bengali calendar | 740 |
| Berber calendar | 2283 |
| English Regnal year | 6 Edw. 3 – 7 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1877 |
| Burmese calendar | 695 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6841–6842 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4029 or 3969 — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4030 or 3970 |
| Coptic calendar | 1049–1050 |
| Discordian calendar | 2499 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1325–1326 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5093–5094 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1389–1390 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1255–1256 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4434–4435 |
| Holocene calendar | 11333 |
| Igbo calendar | 333–334 |
| Iranian calendar | 711–712 |
| Islamic calendar | 733–734 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōkei 2 (正慶２年) |
| Julian calendar | 1333 MCCCXXXIII |
| Korean calendar | 3666 |
| Minguo calendar | 579 before ROC 民前579年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1875–1876 |
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Year 1333 (MCCCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- May 18 – Siege of Kamakura in Japan: Forces loyal to Emperor Go-Daigo led by Nitta Yoshisada enter and destroy the city, breaking the power of the Hōjō clan over the Kamakura shogunate. The Kamakura period ends and the Kenmu Restoration under Go-Daigo begins.
- June 6 – William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster is murdered as part of the Burke Civil War in Ireland.
- June 8 – King Edward III of England seizes the Isle of Man from Scottish control.[1]
- July 7 – The reign of Emperor Kōgon of Japan, first of the Northern Court (Ashikaga) Pretenders, ends.
- July 19 – Battle of Halidon Hill: Edward III of England decisively defeats Sir Archibald Douglas, during the last of the Wars of Scottish Independence. Berwick-upon-Tweed returns to English control.
- November 4 – The river Arno floods, causing massive damage in Florence, as recorded by Giovanni Villani.
Date unknown
- A famine (lasting until 1337) breaks out in China, killing six million.
- A great famine takes place in Southern Europe. It is known to historians of Catalonia as Lo mal any primer, "the First Bad Year" (equivalent to the Great Famine of 1315–17 further north), an early notice of the catastrophes of the second half of this century.[2]
- Jan IV of Dražic, bishop of Prague, founds a friary and builds a stone bridge at Roudnice in Bohemia.
- The Kapellbrücke wooden bridge over the Reuss in Lucerne (Switzerland) is built; by the 20th century it will be the world's oldest truss bridge and Europe's oldest covered bridge.
- The Venetian historian Marino Sanudo Torsello publishes his History of the realm of Romania (Istoria del regno di Romania), one of the most important sources on the history of Latin Greece.[3]
Births
- date unknown
- Helena Kantakouzene, empress consort of Byzantium (d. 1396)
- Kanami, Japanese noh actor and writer (d. 1384)
- Mikhail II of Tver (d. 1399)
- Carlo Zeno, Venetian admiral (d. 1418)
Deaths
- February 7 – Nikko, Japanese priest, founder of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism (b. 1246)
- March – William of Alnwick, Franciscan friar and theologian
- March 2 – King Wladyslaw I of Poland (b. 1261)
- June 6 – William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster (b. 1312)
- June 18 – Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1312)
- July 19 (at the Battle of Halidon Hill):
- July 28 – Guy VIII of Viennois, Dauphin of Vienne (b. 1309)
- September 25 – Prince Morikuni, 9th Kamakura shogun of Japan (b. 1301)
- October 16 – Antipope Nicholas V
- November 15 – Nichimoku, Japanese priest, the 3rd high priest of Taisekiji temple and Nichiren Shoshu (b. 1260)
