1341

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1310s  1320s  1330s  – 1340s –  1350s  1360s  1370s
Years:	1338 1339 1340 – 1341 – 1342 1343 1344

Events

• The Queen's College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is founded.
• Petrarch is crowned poet laureate in Rome, the first man since antiquity to be given this honor.
• Beginning of the Breton War of Succession over the control of the Duchy of Brittany
• Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, expels her husband John Henry of Bohemia, to whom she had been married as a child. She subsequently marries Louis of Bavaria without having been divorced, which results in the excommunication of the couple.