1331
Year 1331 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.Events
September–December
- September 8 - Stefan Dusan declares himself king of Serbia.
- September 27 - Battle of Płowce: The German Teutonic Knights and the Poles battle to a draw.
Date unknown
- The Sieges of Cividale del Friuli and Alicante begin.
- The Genkō War begins in Japan.
- Ibn Battuta visits Kilwa.
- The first recorded outbreak of the Black Death occurs in the Chinese province of Hubei.
Births
- February 16 - Coluccio Salutati, Florentine political leader
- April 14 - Jeanne-Marie de Maille, French Roman Catholic saint
- April 30 - Gaston III, Count of Foix
- October 4 - James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde
- date unknown
- * Hamidüddin Aksarayî, Ottoman teacher of Islam
- * Blanche d'Évreux, queen consort of France
- * Michael Palaiologos, Byzantine prince
- probable - Salvestro de' Medici, provost of Florence
Deaths
- January 14 - Odoric of Pordenone, Italian explorer
- April 17 - Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford
- May 12 - Engelbert of Admont, abbot of Admont in Styria
- October 27 - Abulfeda, Kurdish Syrian historian and geographer
- November 11 - Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia
- December 26 - Philip I, Prince of Taranto, titular Latin Emperor
- December 30 - Bernard Gui, French inquisitor
- date unknown - Matilda of Hainaut, Princess of Achaea