Year 1333 ( MCCCXXXIII ) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .

Events [ edit ]

January?December [ edit ]

• 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 H?j? 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]
• June 19 ? Ashikaga Takauji leads his army into Kyoto as part of the Kenmu Restoration.
• July 7 ? The reign of Emperor K?gon of Japan , first of the Northern Court (Ashikaga) Pretenders, ends.
• July 19 ? Wars of Scottish Independence - Battle of Halidon Hill : Edward III of England decisively defeats Sir Archibald Douglas . Berwick-upon-Tweed returns to English control.
• November 4 ? The River Arno floods, causing massive damage in Florence , as recorded by Giovanni Villani .

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• 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?1317 further north), an early notice of the catastrophes of the second half of this century. ^[2]
• Jan IV of Dra?ic, Bishop of Prague , founds a friary and builds a stone bridge at Roudnice in Bohemia .
• The Kapellbrucke 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 [ edit ]

• date unknown
  • Kan'ami , Japanese Noh actor and writer (d. 1384 )
  • Helena Kantakouzene , empress consort of Byzantium (d. 1396 )
  • Mikhail II of Tver (d. 1399 )
  • Peter Parler , German architect (d. 1399 )
  • Carlo Zeno , Venetian admiral (d. 1418 )

Deaths [ edit ]

• 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 ):
  • John Campbell, Earl of Atholl
  • Alexander Bruce, Earl of Carrick
  • Sir Archibald Douglas
  • Maol Choluim II, Earl of Lennox
  • Kenneth de Moravia, 4th Earl of Sutherland
• July 28 – Guy VIII of Viennois , Dauphin of Vienne (b. 1309 )
• November 9 – Empress Saionji Kishi of Japan (b. c. 1303 )
• October 16 – Antipope Nicholas V
• date unknown
  • Prince Morikuni , 9th and last sh?gun of the Kamakura shogunate in Japan. (b. 1301 )
  • Nichimoku , Japanese priest, the 3rd high priest of Taisekiji temple and Nichiren Shoshu (b. 1260 )

References [ edit ]