1329

In the year AD 1329...

• The Teutonic Knights, led by King John of Bohemia, successfully lay siege to the town of Medvėgalis in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. After the town capitulates, they baptize all 6,000 defenders en masse, and then return home to Prussia, at which point the Lithuanians immediately return to their pagan ways.
• A Byzantine army under Emperor Andronicus III makes one final attempt to relieve the Byzantine cities under Ottoman siege in Anatolia, but is defeated by the Ottomans under Bey Orhan I at the Battle of Pelecanum. The Byzantine Empire is hereafter in terminal decline, and will never again try to recover any of its former territory in Asia.
• Pope John XXII officially excommunicates Antipope Nicholas V, and issues a papal bull condemning part of the teachings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.

These people were born in 1329...

• John I, Duke of Bavaria.
• Japanese warlord Hosokawa Yoriyuki.
• Arab lexicographer Fairuzabadi.

These people died in 1329...

• King of Scotland Robert the Bruce, succeeded by his son, David II.
• Emperor Mingzong of China's Yuan Dynasty (aka Khutughtu Khan of the Mongol Empire).
• French Carthusian nun Saint Roseline.

1328 - 1329 - 1330

14th century

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