1333

This article is about the year 1333.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1300s  1310s  1320s  – 1330s –  1340s  1350s  1360s
Years:	1330 1331 1332 – 1333 – 1334 1335 1336

1333 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1333 in poetry

1333 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1333 MCCCXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2086
Armenian calendar	782 ԹՎ ՉՁԲ
Assyrian calendar	6083
Bengali calendar	740
Berber calendar	2283
English Regnal year	6 Edw. 3 – 7 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1877
Burmese calendar	695
Byzantine calendar	6841–6842
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4029 or 3969     — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4030 or 3970
Coptic calendar	1049–1050
Discordian calendar	2499
Ethiopian calendar	1325–1326
Hebrew calendar	5093–5094
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1389–1390
- Shaka Samvat	1255–1256
- Kali Yuga	4434–4435
Holocene calendar	11333
Igbo calendar	333–334
Iranian calendar	711–712
Islamic calendar	733–734
Japanese calendar	Shōkei 2 (正慶２年)
Julian calendar	1333 MCCCXXXIII
Korean calendar	3666
Minguo calendar	579 before ROC 民前579年
Thai solar calendar	1875–1876

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

Events

January–December

• 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 Hōjō 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.
• July 7 – The reign of Emperor Kōgon of Japan, first of the Northern Court (Ashikaga) Pretenders, ends.
• July 19 – Battle of Halidon Hill: Edward III of England decisively defeats Sir Archibald Douglas, during the last of the Wars of Scottish Independence. Berwick-upon-Tweed returns to English control.
• November 4 – The river Arno floods, causing massive damage in Florence, as recorded by Giovanni Villani.

Date unknown

• 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 1315–17 further north), an early notice of the catastrophes of the second half of this century.
• Jan IV of Dražic, bishop of Prague, founds a friary and builds a stone bridge at Roudnice in Bohemia.
• The Kapellbrücke 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.

Births

• date unknown
  • Helena Kantakouzene, empress consort of Byzantium (d. 1396)
  • Kanami, Japanese noh actor and writer (d. 1384)
  • Mikhail II of Tver (d. 1399)
  • Carlo Zeno, Venetian admiral (d. 1418)

Deaths

• 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)
• September 25 – Prince Morikuni, 9th Kamakura shogun of Japan (b. 1301)
• October 16 – Antipope Nicholas V
• November 15 – Nichimoku, Japanese priest, the 3rd high priest of Taisekiji temple and Nichiren Shoshu (b. 1260)