1330

This article is about the year 1330.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1300s  1310s  1320s  – 1330s –  1340s  1350s  1360s
Years:	1327 1328 1329 – 1330 – 1331 1332 1333

1330 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1330 in poetry

1330 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1330 MCCCXXX
Ab urbe condita	2083
Armenian calendar	779 ԹՎ ՉՀԹ
Assyrian calendar	6080
Bengali calendar	737
Berber calendar	2280
English Regnal year	3 Edw. 3 – 4 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1874
Burmese calendar	692
Byzantine calendar	6838–6839
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4026 or 3966     — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4027 or 3967
Coptic calendar	1046–1047
Discordian calendar	2496
Ethiopian calendar	1322–1323
Hebrew calendar	5090–5091
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1386–1387
- Shaka Samvat	1252–1253
- Kali Yuga	4431–4432
Holocene calendar	11330
Igbo calendar	330–331
Iranian calendar	708–709
Islamic calendar	730–731
Japanese calendar	Gentoku 2 (元徳２年)
Julian calendar	1330 MCCCXXX
Korean calendar	3663
Minguo calendar	582 before ROC 民前582年
Thai solar calendar	1872–1873

Year 1330 (MCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• July 28 – Battle of Velbazhd: The Bulgarians under Tsar Michael Shishman (who is mortally wounded) are beaten by the Serbs. Bulgaria does not lose any territory to Serbia but is powerless to stop the Serbian advance towards the predominantly Bulgarian-populated Macedonia.
• October 19 – King Edward III of England starts his personal reign, arresting his regent Roger Mortimer and having him executed.
• November 9–12 – Battle of Posada: The Wallachians, under Basarab I, defeat the Hungarians, though heavily outnumbered.
• Undated – Vilnius, Lithuania receives its coat-of-arms, granted to the city in the seventh year of its existence.

Births

• June 15 – Edward, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (d. 1376)
• July 4 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (d. 1367)
• October 25 – Louis II of Flanders (d. 1384)
• date unknown
  • Franz Ackerman, Flemish statesman (d. 1387)
  • Altichiero, Indian painter (d. 1390)
  • John Gower, English poet (d. 1410)
  • Peter Parler, German architect (d. 1399)
  • Nicolas Flamel, alchemist (d. 1417)

Deaths

• January 13 – Duke Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)
• March 19 – Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, son of Edward I and brother of Edward II (executed by Roger Mortimer) (b. 1301)
• May 3 – Alexios II Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1282)
• c. July 31 – Tsar Michael Shishman of Bulgaria (b. 1280s?)
• August 25 – Sir James Douglas, Scottish guerilla leader during the Wars of Scottish Independence (b. 1286)
• November 29 – Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (b. 1287)
• date unknown
  • Pietro Cavallini, Italian artist (b. 1259)
  • Guillaume Durand, French clergyman
  • Immanuel the Roman, Italian scholar and poet (b. 1270)
  • Maximus Planudes, Byzantine grammarian and theologian
  • Angus Og of Islay, Scottish soldier

The Battle of Posada (November 9–12, 1330) in Chronicon Pictum. The Basarab I of Wallachia's army ambushes Charles Robert of Anjou, king of Hungary and his 30,000-strong invading army. The Vlach (Romanian) warriors roll down rocks over the cliff edges in a place where the Hungarian mounted knights cannot escape from them nor climb the heights to dislodge the attackers.