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The Council of Pisa convenes, in an attempt to heal the Western Schism.
Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scots (Scotland).
Coronation of Robert of Courtenay as Emperor of the Latin Empire.
The Great German Pilgrimage is attacked on Good Friday by Beduin bandits, suffering heavy losses.
Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah assassinates the eunuch chief minister Barjawan and assumes control of the government.
Romanos Lekapenos seizes the Boukoleon Palace in Constantinople and becomes regent of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII.
Theodosius III resigns the throne to the Byzantine Empire to enter a monastery, allowing Leo III to take the throne and begin the Isaurian dynasty.
Election of Pope Constantine following the death of Pope Sisinnius. He would be the last pope to visit Constantinople until 1967.
Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto.
The Southern Yan capital of Guanggu falls to the Jin dynasty general Liu Yu, ending the Southern Yan dynasty.
Conradin
Duke of Swabia (died 1268)
Born 1252Andronikos II Palaiologos
Byzantine emperor (died 1332)
Born 1259Andronikos III Palaiologos
Byzantine emperor (died 1341)
Born 1297ArnoΕ‘t of Pardubice
the first Bohemian archbishop (died 1364)
Born 1297Blanche of Lancaster (died 1369)
Blanche of Lancaster (died 1369)
Born 1345Catherine of Siena
Italian philosopher, theologian, and saint (died 1380)
Born 1347John Beaufort
1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (died 1444)
Born 1404Thomas Clifford
8th Baron de Clifford, English noble (died 1455)
Born 1414Li Kening
Chinese general
908Taira no Masakado
Japanese samurai
940Nicodemus of Mammola
Italian monk and saint
990Kenneth III
king of Scotland
1005Hugh IV
French nobleman
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