- 1324
Year 1324 was a
leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1324
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Defensor pacis " is published byMarsilius of Padua .
* Emperor Kankan Musa I of theMali Empire arrives inCairo on hishajj toMecca , accompanied by an entourage numbering in the thousands and hundreds of pounds of gold. This fantastic display of wealth garners Mali a place on European maps in1395 .Births
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March 5 - KingDavid II of Scotland (d.1371 )
*"date unknown"
**PrinceDmitry of Suzdal (d.1383 )
**Louis of Durazzo , Count of Gravina and Morrone (d.1362 )
**Giovanni Manfredi , lord of Faenza (d.1373 )
**Prince Tsunenaga , Japanese imperial prince (d.1338 )
*"probable" - Manuel II, Emperor of Trebizond (d.1333 ):"Also see ".
Deaths
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January 8 -Marco Polo , Italian explorer (b.1254 )
*February 11 -Karl von Trier , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
*March 26 -Marie de Luxembourg, Queen of France (b.1304 ) (carriage accident)
*June 23 -Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (b.1270 )
*July 16 -Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b.1267 )
*August 16 /August 17 -Adelheid of Brunswick , Empress of Constantinople (b. c.1293 )
*August 31 -Henry II of Jerusalem (b.1271 )
*November 1 -John de Halton , Bishop of Carlisle
*November 3 -Petronilla de Meath , Irish servant and suspected witch (burned at stake)
*"date unknown"
**Dino Compagni , Italian historian (b. c. 1255)
**Helvig of Holstein , queen consort of Sweden (b.1260 )
**KingSancho of Majorca (b.1274 ):"Also see ".
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