1341

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.