Year 1332 (MCCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
- February 18 – Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia, begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces (possibly in 1329).
- August 10–11 – Battle of Dupplin Moor: Edward Balliol rebels, and the English defeat the loyalists of David II in Scotland.
- September – Edward Balliol crowns himself King of Scotland.
- The city of Marosvásárhely (in Transylvania, today Târgu Mureș in Romania) is first documented in the papal registry, under the name Novum Forum Siculorum.
Births
- May 27 – Ibn Khaldun, North African Arab historian (d. 1406)
- June 8 – Cangrande II della Scala, Lord of Verona (d. 1359)
- June 16 – Isabella de Coucy, English princess, daughter of King Edward III of England (d. 1379 or 1382)
- June 18 – John V Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1391)
- October 10 – King Charles II of Navarre (d. 1387)
- date unknown
- Pero López de Ayala, Spanish soldier (d. 1407)
- Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster (d. 1363)
- Andrea Vanni, Italian painter (d. c. 1414)
- Hanna van Recklinghausen, Dutch banker
- Xu Da, Chinese military leader (d. 1385)
- Approximate
- William Langland, English poet (d. c.1400)
- Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint (d. 1381)
Deaths
- January 8 – Andronikos III Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond
- February – Henry Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey (b. c. 1265)
- February 13 – Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1259)
- March 13 – Theodore Metochites, Byzantine Empire statesman, author, man of learning, and patron of the arts (b. 1270)
- June 16 – Adam de Brome, founder of Oriel College, Oxford
- July 20 – Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland
- August 2 – King Christopher II of Denmark (b. 1276)
- August 11 – at the Battle of Dupplin Moor
- date unknown
- Jayaatu Khan Tugh Temür, Emperor Wenzong of the Yuan dynasty (b. 1304)
- Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor Ningzong of the Yuan dynasty (b. 1326)
- approximate date – Mary of Woodstock, English princess (b. 1279)