Year 1336 (MCCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
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- February 25
- Rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights, 4,000 defenders of PilÃÂnai, Lithuania commit mass suicide.
- The Kenmu Restoration ends and the Muromachi period begins in Japan; start of the Nanboku-chÃ
 period.
- April 18 (unconfirmed) â Brothers Harihara and Bukka Raya found the Vijayanagara Empire on the southern part of the Deccan Plateau in South India.
- April 26 â 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.
- May 19 â The governor of Baghdad, Oirat 'Ali Padsah, defeats Arpa Ke'un near Maraga, contributing to the disintegration of the Ilkhanate.
- July 4 â Battle of Minatogawa: Ashikaga Takauji defeats Japanese Imperial forces, under Kusunoki Masashige and Nitta Yoshisada.
- July 21âÂÂ22 â Second War of Scottish Independence: Aberdeen, Scotland is burned by the English.
- September 20 â The reign of Emperor KÃ
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Births
Deaths
- 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)
- May 17 – Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)
- July 4 – Elizabeth of Portugal, queen consort and saint (b. 1271)
- September 5 – Charles d'ÃÂvreux (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, Kayñ and Ottoman soldier and commander in-chief (b. 1200) at the age of 136.
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