1330
Calendar year
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 .[ 1]
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. [ 2]
Undated – Ivan Alexander becomes the despot of Lovech .
Births
Deaths
January 13 – Duke Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286 )
January 21 – Joan II, Countess of Burgundy , queen dowager of France (b. 1291 )
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 – On or about this date, Sir James Douglas , Scottish guerilla leader during the Wars of Scottish Independence (b. circa 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
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
^ Djuvara, Neagu. Thocomerius – Negru Vodă. Un voivod de origine cumană la inceputurile Țării Românești. Bucharest: Humanitas, 2007. ISBN 978-973-50-1731-6.
^ Miesčionaitienė, Eugenija; Misevičius, Juozas; Stanaitis, Stanislovas; Valaitytė, Violeta (2009). Lietuviai inteligentai tautos laisvės ir pažangos kelyje (PDF). Vilnius: VĮ Mokslotyros institutas. p. 60. ISBN 978-9986-795-61-2. Retrieved June 11 2023.
^ "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 .