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February 2011 1336 July 2017 1336 Year 1336 (MCCCXXXVI) 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 (unconfirmed) – Brothers Harihara and Bukka Raya found the Vijayanagara Empire on the southern part of the Deccan Plateau in South India.Vijayanagar historical city and empire, India Britannica https://www.britannica.com/place/Vijayanagar 2022-01-01 www.britannica.com en 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.Epistolae familiares IV(1) (c.1350). 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 – Second War of Scottish Independence: Aberdeen, Scotland is burned by the English.Battles in Aberdeenshire http://www.mcjazz.f2s.com/Battles.htm The Doric Columns 2020-03-20 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 (d. 1405) April 23 – Olivier V de Clisson, "the butcher", Breton knight and constable of France (d. 1407) July 25 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1404) date unknown Gao Qi, Chinese poet (d. 1374) Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev (died 1406) probable Stefan Uroš V, Emperor of the Serbs (d. 1371) Deaths 100px|thumb|Emperor Go-Fushimi January 20 – John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford (b. 1306) February 25 – Margiris, Duke of Samogitia March 20 – Maurice Csák, Hungarian Dominican friar (b. c. 1270)Madas, Edit (2001). "Boldog Csáki Móric élete [Life of Blessed Maurice Csák]". In Madas, Edit; Klaniczay, Gábor (eds.). Legendák és csodák (13–16. század). Szentek a magyar középkorból II (in Hungarian). Osiris Kiadó. pp. 331–341. May 17 – Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288) July 4 – Elizabeth of Portugal, queen consort and saint (b. 1271) September 5 – Charles d'Évreux (b. 1305) date unknown Bernard VIII, Count of Comminges (b. c. 1285) Arpa Ke'un, Ilkhanid ruler Guillaume Pierre Godin, French Dominican philosopher (b. c. 1260) Hugh II of Arborea Ramon Muntaner, Catalan soldier and writer (b. 1270) Cino da Pistoia, Italian poet (b. 1270) Richard of Wallingford, English monk and mathematician (b. 1292) Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din, Ilkhanate politician Turgut Alp, Kayı and Ottoman soldier and commander in-chief (b. 1200) at the age of 136. References