Year 1328 (MCCCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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  • January 17 &ndash; Louis IV, "the Bavarian", is crowned Holy Roman Emperor at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Because of conflict with the Avignon Papacy, the ceremony is carried out by a senator and three Italian bishops.
  • January 24 &ndash; Philippa of Hainault marries King Edward III of England a year after his coronation. The marriage produces ten children, the eldest of whom is Edward the Black Prince.
  • May 1 &ndash; Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton: England recognises Scotland as an independent nation, after the Wars of Scottish Independence.
  • May 12 &ndash; Antipope Nicholas V is consecrated at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome by the bishop of Venice.
  • May 26 &ndash; William of Ockham secretly leaves Avignon, under threat from Pope John XXII.
  • May 29 &ndash; King Philip VI of France is crowned, founding the House of Valois, after the death of King Charles IV of France, who has no sons to inherit.
  • August 23 &ndash; Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
  • Undated &ndash; The Augustiner-Bräu is first recorded as the brewery of an Augustinian monastery at Munich.</onlyinclude>

Births

  • April 1 &ndash; Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans (d. 1393)
  • May 7 &ndash; Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1365)
  • June 25 &ndash; William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)
  • September 29 &ndash; Joan of Kent, princess of Wales, spouse of Edward the Black Prince (d. 1385)
  • October 9 &ndash; King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
  • October 21 &ndash; Hongwu Emperor of China (d. 1398)
  • November 11 &ndash; Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (d. 1360)
  • November 25 &ndash; Antipope Benedict XIII, born Pedro Martínez de Luna (d. 1423)
  • date unknown
  • Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas ("Archibald the Grim", "Black Archibald"), Scottish magnate and warrior (d. 1400)
  • Emperor Go-Murakami of Japan (d. 1368)

Deaths

  • February 1 &ndash; King Charles IV of France (b. 1294)
  • August 15 &ndash; Yesün Temür, emperor of the Yuan dynasty (b. 1293)
  • August 23 &ndash; Nicolaas Zannekin, Flemish peasant leader (in the battle of Cassel)
  • September 26 &ndash; Ibn Taymiyyah, Islamic scholar and philosopher of Harran (b. 1263)
  • October 12 (or 13) &ndash; Clementia of Hungary, Queen consort of France and Navarre (b. 1293)
  • November 16 &ndash; Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shōgun (b. 1276)
  • date unknown
  • Meister Eckhart, German theologian (b. 1260)
  • Andronikos Angelos Palaiologos, Byzantine nobleman and governor (b. ca. 1282)

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