Events of 1324

• Defensor pacis is published by Marsilius of Padua.

• Emperor Kankan Musa I of the Mali Empire arrives in Cairo on his hajj to Mecca, accompanied by an entourage numbering in the thousands and hundreds of pounds of gold. This fantastic display of wealth garners Mali a place on European maps in 1395.

Births

• March 5 – King David II of Scotland (d. 1371)

• date unknown

• *Prince Dmitry of Suzdal (d. 1383)

• *Louis of Durazzo, Count of Gravina and Morrone (d. 1362)

• *Giovanni Manfredi, lord of Faenza (d. 1373)

• *Prince Tsunenaga, Japanese imperial prince (d. 1338)

• probable – Manuel II, Emperor of Trebizond (d. 1333)

Deaths

• January 8 – Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)

• February 11 – Karl von Trier, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order

• March 26 – Marie de Luxembourg, Queen of France (b. 1304) (carriage accident)

• June 23 – Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (b. 1270)

• July 16 – Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267)

• August 16/August 17 – Adelheid of Brunswick, Empress of Constantinople (b. c. 1293)

• August 31 – Henry II of Jerusalem (b. 1271)

• November 1 – John de Halton, Bishop of Carlisle

• November 3 – Petronilla de Meath, Irish servant and suspected witch (burned at stake)

• date unknown

• *Dino Compagni, Italian historian (b. c. 1255)

• *Helvig of Holstein, queen consort of Sweden (b. 1260)

• *King Sancho of Majorca (b. 1274)