1324

1324 (MCCCXXIV) was a leap year beginning on a Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

• San Sardos War between France and England.
• Jaime II de Aragón conquers Sardinia.
• In Avignon (France), the Franciscan friar and British scholastic philosopher Guillermo de Ockham is judged for heresy and sentenced to 4 years of house arrest.
• Carlos el Calvo, king of Navarre, granted the privilege for the repopulation of the Navarrería (in Pamplona), which had been rooted in the Navarrería War.

Portrait of Marco Polo (1254-1324).

Births

• David II of Scotland.

Deaths

• January 8: Marco Polo (69), merchant, traveler and Venetian writer (n. 1254).
• Sancho I de Mallorca (47), Majorcan king (n. 1277).
• Isabel de Bohemia (1), twin of Ana (1323-1338), daughters of King John I of Bohemia.