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Heads of State
Year of the Metal Monkey庚申(at the beginning of Earth Sheep己未)
Syria: 1631/32 ( the year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Europe
- January 20: Władysław I the Elbow- becomes king of Poland. He makes Krakow the capital.
- April 6: Declaration of Arbroath - The Scots declare their independence from England.
- May 5: Reconciliation Roberts III. with the French king Philip V in the Treaty of Paris
- May: 2 shepherd crusade begins in Normandy.
- July: With the death of Henry the child dies from the dynasty of askanischen Margrave of Brandenburg.
- Kiev was conquered by the Lithuanians and should only be Russian again in 1686.
- The collaboration between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Grand Duchy of Tver is underpinned by a political marriage between the daughter of Gediminas, Mary, and Prince Dmitry Mikhaylovich ( 1317-1322 ).
- Pomerania acquires the Uckermark.
Asia
- Ghiyas -ud -din Tughluq Shah I will be the first member of the Tughluq dynasty, Sultan of Delhi.
City rights and notices Ersturkundliche
- First mention of Capri Leone, Moors in Ehningen, Eriz, Mitlödi, Mirchel and Tunau
- The municipality of St. Egidien is first mentioned with " Eccleria Sancti Egidii in Lunwicz ".
- Linz am Rhein receives city rights.
Culture
- Dante Quaestio de Aqua et Terra appears.
Religion
- To promote the canonization of Thomas Aquinas and financially, calls the General Chapter of the Dominicans in Rouen all provincials to bring to the next meeting for each monk a florin.
- St. Mary's Church in Kolberg is completed after forty years of construction.
Disasters
- The All Saints storm surge in the Baltic Sea gives rise to the island of Ruden.
Historic maps and views
Born
- Inês de Castro, Castilian noblewoman and mistress of the King of Portugal ( † 1355 ).
- Nijo Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, scholar and court official († 1388 )
- 1320: Vojtěch Raňkův z Ježová, Czech theologian and philosopher († 1388 )
Died
- MAY 5: Peter von Aspelt, Archbishop of Mainz (* 1245 )
- August 18: Adelheid of Brunswick, Queen of Bohemia (c. 1300)
- Antonius Andreae, Spanish Franciscan (* 1280 )
- 1320: Aaron ben Joseph, Jewish scholar and Karaites (* 1260 )
- 1320: Zhu Shijie, Chinese mathematician (* 1260 )