1336

This article is about the year 1336.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1300s  1310s  1320s  – 1330s –  1340s  1350s  1360s
Years:	1333 1334 1335 – 1336 – 1337 1338 1339

1336 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1336 in poetry

1336 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1336 MCCCXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2089
Armenian calendar	785 ԹՎ ՉՁԵ
Assyrian calendar	6086
Bengali calendar	743
Berber calendar	2286
English Regnal year	9 Edw. 3 – 10 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1880
Burmese calendar	698
Byzantine calendar	6844–6845
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 4032 or 3972     — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4033 or 3973
Coptic calendar	1052–1053
Discordian calendar	2502
Ethiopian calendar	1328–1329
Hebrew calendar	5096–5097
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1392–1393
- Shaka Samvat	1258–1259
- Kali Yuga	4437–4438
Holocene calendar	11336
Igbo calendar	336–337
Iranian calendar	714–715
Islamic calendar	736–737
Japanese calendar	Shōkei 5 (正慶５年)
Julian calendar	1336 MCCCXXXVI
Korean calendar	3669
Minguo calendar	576 before ROC 民前576年
Thai solar calendar	1878–1879

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

Events

• February 25 – 4,000 defenders of Pilėnai commit a mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights
• February 25 – The Kemmu restoration ends and the Muromachi period begins in Japan.
• April 26 – Ascent of Mount Ventoux by the Italian poet Petrarch: he claims to be the first since classical antiquity to climb a mountain for the view.
• July 4 – Battle of Minatogawa: Ashikaga Takauji defeats Japanese Imperial forces under Kusunoki Masashige and Nitta Yoshisada

Date unknown

• The reign of Emperor Kōmyō, second of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders, begins.
• Vijayanagara is founded on the southern part of the Deccan plateau in India, by the brothers Harihara and Bukka Raya.
• Aberdeen is burned by the English.

Births

• April 14 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan (d. 1374)
• July 25 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1404)
• date unknown
  • Gao Qi, Chinese poet (d. 1374)
  • Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (died 1406)
  • Timur, founder of the Timurid Empire (d. 1405)
• probable
  • Pope Innocent VII (d. 1406)

Deaths

• January 20 – John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford (b. 1306)
• May 17 – Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)
• July 4 – Saint Elizabeth of Portugal (b. 1271)
• September 5 – Charles d'Évreux (b. 1305)
• date unknown
  • Bernard VIII, Count of Comminges (b. c. 1285)
  • Arpa Ke'un, Ilkhanid emperor
  • Guillaume Pierre Godin, philosopher (b. c. 1260)
  • Hugh II of Arborea
  • Margiris, Duke of Samogitia
  • Ramon Muntaner, Catalan soldier and writer (b. 1270)
  • Cino da Pistoia, Italian poet (b. 1270)
  • Richard of Wallingford, mathematician (b. 1292)