1327

This article is about the year 1327.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1300s 1310s 1320s 1330s 1340s
Years:	1324 1325 1326 1327 1328 1329 1330

1327 by topic
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Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Art and literature
1327 in poetry

1327 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1327 MCCCXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2080
Armenian calendar	776 ԹՎ ՉՀԶ
Assyrian calendar	6077
Balinese saka calendar	1248–1249
Bengali calendar	734
Berber calendar	2277
English Regnal year	20 Edw. 2 – 1 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1871
Burmese calendar	689
Byzantine calendar	6835–6836
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 4023 or 3963     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4024 or 3964
Coptic calendar	1043–1044
Discordian calendar	2493
Ethiopian calendar	1319–1320
Hebrew calendar	5087–5088
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1383–1384
- Shaka Samvat	1248–1249
- Kali Yuga	4427–4428
Holocene calendar	11327
Igbo calendar	327–328
Iranian calendar	705–706
Islamic calendar	727–728
Japanese calendar	Karyaku 2 (嘉暦２年)
Javanese calendar	1238–1240
Julian calendar	1327 MCCCXXVII
Korean calendar	3660
Minguo calendar	585 before ROC 民前585年
Nanakshahi calendar	−141
Thai solar calendar	1869–1870
Tibetan calendar	阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 1453 or 1072 or 300     — to — 阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 1454 or 1073 or 301

Year 1327 (MCCCXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 25 – The 14-year-old Edward III is proclaimed King of England, after his mother Isabella has engineered the abdication of his imprisoned father Edward II of England, on January 20, effective January 25. Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer rule as regents (the coronation takes place February 1).
• April 6 (Good Friday) – Tuscan writer Petrarch sees a woman he names Laura in the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon, which awakes in him a lasting passion. He writes a series of sonnets and other poems in Italian dedicated to her, which are collected into Il Canzoniere, an influential model for Renaissance culture.
• June 14 – A peace treaty is signed between Norway and Sønderjylland.
• June 21 – Ingeborg of Norway marries her lover Knud Porse, but is deposed from political power in Norway.
• November – Alfonso IV of Aragon begins his reign.
• English abbot Richard of Wallingford describes the construction of an astronomical clock in his Tractatus Horologii Astronomici.

Births

• June – Malatesta Ungaro, Italian condottiero (d. 1372)
• October 30 – Andrew, Duke of Calabria (d. 1345)
• date unknown
  • Charles de La Cerda, Franco-Spanish soldier (d. 1354)
  • Elizabeth le Despenser, Baroness Berkeley, English noble (d. 1389)
  • Demetrius I Starshy, Prince of Trubczewsk (d. 1399)
  • Birger Gregersson, Archbishop of Uppsala (d. 1383)
  • Baldus de Ubaldis, Italian jurist (d. 1400)
• probable – William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, Scottish nobleman (d. 1384)

Deaths

• January 16 – Nikephoros Choumnos, Byzantine scholar and statesman (b. 1250 or 1255)
• January 29 – Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine (b. 1300)
• March 15 – Albert of Schwarzburg, German grand preceptor of the Knights Hospitaller
• April 9 – Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland (b. 1293)
• May 28 – Robert Baldock, Lord Privy Seal and Lord Chancellor of England
• May 29 – Jens Grand, Danish archbishop (b. c. 1260)
• July 4 – Stefano Visconti, Milanese nobleman
• August 25 – Demasq Kaja, Ilkhanate member of the Chobanid Family
• September 1 – Foulques de Villaret, French Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
• September 21 – King Edward II of England (murdered; b. 1284)
• September 26 – Cecco d'Ascoli, Italian encyclopaedist, physician and poet (b. 1257)
• October 20 – Teresa d'Entença, Countess of Urgell (b. 1300)
• October 27 – Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert the Bruce
• November – Chupan, Chobanid prince of the Ilkhanate
• November 2 or November 5 – King James II of Aragon (b. 1267)
• December 19 – Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
• date unknown
  • Thomas Cobham, Bishop of Worcester
  • Constantine I of Imereti
  • David of Hrodna, Lithuanian military leader
  • Vital du Four, French theologian (b. 1260)
  • Walter Reynolds, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Sir Richard de Exeter, Anglo-Irish knight
• probable – Bartholomew of Lucca, Italian historian

In literature

• The action of Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose (Il Nome della Rosa, 1980) takes place during this year.