1321

This article is about the year 1321. For the number, see 1321 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1290s  1300s  1310s  – 1320s –  1330s  1340s  1350s
Years:	1318 1319 1320 – 1321 – 1322 1323 1324

1321 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1321 in poetry

1321 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1321 MCCCXXI
Ab urbe condita	2074
Armenian calendar	770 ԹՎ ՉՀ
Assyrian calendar	6071
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) 4017 or 3957     — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4018 or 3958
Coptic calendar	1037–1038
Discordian calendar	2487
Ethiopian calendar	1313–1314
Hebrew calendar	5081–5082
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1377–1378
- Shaka Samvat	1243–1244
- Kali Yuga	4422–4423
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)
Julian calendar	1321 MCCCXXI
Korean calendar	3654
Minguo calendar	591 before ROC 民前591年
Thai solar calendar	1863–1864

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

Events

• 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.
• 14 August – 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.
• 29 October – 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.
• A bad harvest brings famine in Europe.
• Approximate date – Battle on the Irpin River: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats Prince Stanislav of Kiev.

Births

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

Deaths

• January 12 – Maria of Brabant, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1256)
• March 18 – Matthew III Csák, Hungarian oligarch
• April 27 – Nicolò Albertini, Italian statesman (b. c. 1250)
• May 31 – Birger Magnusson, king of Sweden 1290–1318 (b. 1280)
• July 1 – María de Molina, queen consort of Castile (b. c. 1265)
• September 14 – Dante Alighieri, Italian writer (b. 1265)
• October 29 – King Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia (b. c. 1253)
• November 9 – Walter Langton, bishop of Lichfield and treasurer of England
• date unknown
  • Marianus III of Arborea
  • Mubarak Khan, Khilji sultan
  • Witte van Haemstede, Dutch prince
• probable – Ibn al-Banna, Arab Mathematician (b. 1256)