Year 1326 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1326

• 3 June - The Treaty of Novgorod delineates the border between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
• October - Ibn Battuta reaches Mecca.
• Orhan I succeeds Osman I on the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
• The use of the word "cannon" is first recorded in reference to a firearm.
• Formation of the University of Cambridge's second oldest (still surviving) college, Clare College, Cambridge.

[edit] Ongoing

• Peasant revolt in Flanders 1323-1328

[edit] Births

• March 30 - Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Muscovy (d. 1359)
• March 5 - King Louis I of Hungary (died 1382)
• May 8 - Joanna I of Auvergne, queen consort of France (d. 1360)
• date unknown
  • Olivier de Clisson (The Butcher), French soldier (d. 1407)
  • Robert of Durazzo, Neapolitan nobleman (d. 1356)
  • Isaac ben Sheshet, Spanish Talmudic authority (d. 1408)
  • Imagawa Sadayo, Japanese poet and soldier (d. 1420)
  • Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor Ningzong of Yuan (d. 1332)
• probable
  • Manuel Kantakouzenos, despot of Morea (d. 1380)
  • Seii, King of Chuzan (d. c. 1354)

Also see Category:1326 births.

[edit] Deaths

• February 28 - Duke Leopold I of Austria (b. 1290)
• March 26 - Alessandra Giliani, anatomist (born c. 1307)
• April 9 - Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland (b. 1293)
• April 29 - Blanche of Burgundy, queen consort of France (b. c. 1296)
• May 31 - Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley, English rebel baron (b. 1271)
• July 29 - Richard Og de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster (b. 1259)
• October 15 - Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (b. 1261)
• October 27 - Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester (b. 1262) (executed)
• November 17 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
• November 25 - Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1264)
• November 26 - Hugh the younger Despenser, English knight (b. 1286) (executed)
• December 20 - Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow
• date unknown
  • Mondino de Liuzzi, Italian anatomist (b. 1275)
  • Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1258)
  • Ser Petracco, father of Petrarch (b. 1267)

Also see Category:1326 deaths.