1336
Year 1336 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.Events
- February 25
- * Rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights, 4,000 defenders of Pilėnai, Lithuania commit mass suicide.
- * The Kenmu Restoration ends and the Muromachi period begins in Japan; start of the Nanboku-chō period.
- April 18 – Brothers Harihara and Bukka Raya found the Vijayanagara Empire on the southern part of the Deccan Plateau in South India.
- April 26 – The Ascent of Mount Ventoux is made by the Italian poet Petrarch: he claims to be the first since classical antiquity to climb a mountain for the view.
- May 19 – The governor of Baghdad, Oirat 'Ali Padsah, defeats Arpa Ke'un near Maraga, contributing to the disintegration of the Ilkhanate.
- July 4 – Battle of Minatogawa: Ashikaga Takauji defeats Japanese Imperial forces, under Kusunoki Masashige and Nitta Yoshisada.
- July 21–22 – Aberdeen, Scotland is burned by the English.
- September 20 – The reign of Emperor Kōmyō, second of the Ashikaga Pretenders to the Northern Court of Japan, begins.
Births
April 9 - Timur, founder of the Timurid Empire July 25 - Albert I, Duke of Bavaria date unknown * Gao Qi, Chinese poet * Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev probable* Stefan Uroš V, Emperor of the SerbsDeaths
January 20 - John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford February 25 - Margiris, Duke of Samogitia March 20 - Maurice Csák, Hungarian Dominican friar May 17 - Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan July 4 - Elizabeth of Portugal, queen consort and saint September 5 - Charles d'Évreux date unknown* Bernard VIII, Count of Comminges * Arpa Ke'un, Ilkhanid ruler* Guillaume Pierre Godin, French Dominican philosopher * Hugh II of Arborea* Ramon Muntaner, Catalan soldier and writer * Cino da Pistoia, Italian poet * Richard of Wallingford, English monk and mathematician * Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din, Ilkhanate politician
