1321

Events

January–December

• c. May-June - Leper scare: Rumours that lepers are attempting to poison the Christian population spread throughout southern France.
• August 14 - 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.
• October 29 - 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.

  Date unknown

• The Byzantine civil war of 1321–28 begins, when Andronikos III Palaiologos initiates an uprising against Andronikos II Palaiologos.
• A bad harvest brings famine in Europe.
• The Anatolian beylik of Teke is established.
• Gračanica monastery in Kosovo is rebuilt by the Serbian king Stefan Milutin.
• Spitakavor Monastery is completed in Armenia.
• The University of Florence is established.

  Births

• February 5 - John II, Marquess of Montferrat
• July 5 - Joan of The Tower, queen consort of Scotland
• August 29 - John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier
• date unknown
• * James I, Count of Urgell
• * Khwaja Bande Nawaz, Sufi saint
• probable - Emperor John III of Trebizond

  Deaths

• January 12 or 1322 - Maria of Brabant, queen consort of Philip III of France
• January 13 - Bonacossa Borri, Lady of Milan
• February 25 - Beatrice d'Avesnes, consort of Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg
• March 18 - Matthew III Csák, Hungarian oligarch
• April 8 - Thomas of Tolentino, Italian Franciscan missionary, martyred
• April 17 - Infanta Blanche of Portugal, daughter of King Afonso III of Portugal and Urraca of Castile
• April 27 - Nicolò Albertini, Italian cardinal statesman
• May 31 - Birger, King of Sweden
• July 1 - María de Molina, queen consort of Castile
• September 13 or 14 - Dante Alighieri, Italian poet
• October 29 - Stefan Milutin, King of Serbia
• November 9 - Walter Langton, bishop of Lichfield and treasurer of England
• date unknown
• * Marianus III of Arborea, Giudice
• * Mubarak Khan, Khilji regent, murdered
• * Reginald of Burgundy, Count of Montbéliard
• * Witte van Haemstede, Dutch prince
• probable - Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi, Arab mathematician