1330

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1310s 1320s 1330s 1340s 1350s
Years:	1327 1328 1329 1330 1331 1332 1333

1330 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1330 MCCCXXX
Ab urbe condita	2083
Armenian calendar	779 ԹՎ ՉՀԹ
Assyrian calendar	6080
Balinese saka calendar	1251–1252
Bengali calendar	737
Berber calendar	2280
English Regnal year	3 Edw. 3 – 4 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1874
Burmese calendar	692
Byzantine calendar	6838–6839
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4026 or 3966 — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4027 or 3967
Coptic calendar	1046–1047
Discordian calendar	2496
Ethiopian calendar	1322–1323
Hebrew calendar	5090–5091
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1386–1387
- Shaka Samvat	1251–1252
- Kali Yuga	4430–4431
Holocene calendar	11330
Igbo calendar	330–331
Iranian calendar	708–709
Islamic calendar	730–731
Japanese calendar	Gentoku 2 (元徳２年)
Javanese calendar	1242–1243
Julian calendar	1330 MCCCXXX
Korean calendar	3663
Minguo calendar	582 before ROC 民前582年
Nanakshahi calendar	−138
Thai solar calendar	1872–1873
Tibetan calendar	阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 1456 or 1075 or 303 — to — 阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) 1457 or 1076 or 304

Year 1330 (MCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

July 28 – Battle of Velbazhd: The Bulgarians under Tsar Michael Shishman (who is mortally wounded) are beaten by the Serbs. Bulgaria does not lose any territory to Serbia, but is powerless to stop the Serbian advance towards the predominantly Bulgarian-populated Macedonia.
October 19 – King Edward III of England starts his personal reign, arresting his regent Roger Mortimer, and having him executed.
November 9–12 – Battle of Posada: The Wallachians, under Basarab I, defeat the Hungarians, though heavily outnumbered, thus making a firm statement towards the independence of Wallachia.
December 6 – The British Isles are hit by a great storm, creating large areas of sand dunes on Anglesey.
Undated – Vilnius, Lithuania receives its coat-of-arms, granted to the city in the seventh year of its existence.

Births

June 15 – Edward, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (d. 1376)^[1]
July 4 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shōgun (d. 1367)
October 25 – Louis II of Flanders (d. 1384)
date unknown
- Frans Ackerman, Flemish statesman (d. 1387)
- Euphemia of Sicily, princess regent of Sicily (d. 1359)
- Altichiero, Italian painter (d. 1390)
- Nicolas Flamel, French scribe and manuscript-seller, reputed alchemist (d. 1417)
- John Gower, English poet (d. 1410)

Deaths

January 13 – Duke Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)
March 19 – Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, son of Edward I and brother of Edward II (executed by Roger Mortimer) (b. 1301)
May 3 – Alexios II Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1282)
c. July 31 – Tsar Michael Shishman of Bulgaria (b. 1280s?)
August 25 – Sir James Douglas, Scottish guerilla leader during the Wars of Scottish Independence (b. 1286)
September 28 – Elizabeth of Bohemia, queen consort of Bohemia (b. 1292)
November 29 – Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (b. 1287)
date unknown
- Pietro Cavallini, Italian artist (b. 1259)
- Guillaume Durand, French clergyman
- Immanuel the Roman, Italian scholar and poet (b. 1270)
- Maximus Planudes, Byzantine grammarian and theologian
- Uthman ibn Abi al-Ula, Marinid prince and shaykh al-ghuzat of the Emirate of Granada^[2]

The Battle of Posada (November 9–12, 1330) in Chronicon Pictum. The Basarab I of Wallachia's army ambushes Charles Robert of Anjou, king of Hungary and his 30,000-strong invading army. The Vlach ( Romanian) warriors roll down rocks over the cliff edges in a place where the Hungarian mounted knights cannot escape from them nor climb the heights to dislodge the attackers.

References

^ "Edward, the Black Prince (1330 - 1376)". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
^ Manzano Rodríguez, Miguel Angel (1992). La intervención de los Benimerines en la Península Ibérica (in Spanish). Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press. p. 351. ISBN 978-84-00-07220-9.

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