Events of 1333

• June 6 – William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster is murdered and the Burke Civil War begins in Ireland.

• July 7 – The reign of Emperor Kogon of Japan, first of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders, ends.

• July 19 – Battle of Halidon Hill: Edward III defeats Sir Archibald Douglas, during the last of the Wars of Scottish Independence.

• November 4 – The Arno River floods, causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by Giovanni Villani.

Undated

• The Kamakura period ends and the Kemmu restoration begins in Japan.

• John of Drazic, bishop of Prague, founds a friary at Roudnice (Raudnitz).

Births

• date unknown

• *Helena Kantakouzene, empress consort of Byzantium (d. 1396)

• *Kanami, Japanese noh actor and writer (d. 1384)

• *Mikhail II, Grand Prince of Tver (d. 1399)

• *Carlo Zeno, Venetian admiral (d. 1418)

Deaths

• February 7 – Nikko, Japanese priest, founder of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism (b. 1246)

• March – William of Alnwick, Franciscan friar and theologian

• March 2 – King Wladyslaw I of Poland (b. 1261)

• June 6 – William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster (b. 1312)

• June 18 – Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1312)

• July 19 (at the Battle of Halidon Hill):

• *John Campbell, Earl of Atholl

• *Alexander Bruce, Earl of Carrick

• *Sir Archibald Douglas

• *Maol Choluim II, Earl of Lennox

• *Kenneth de Moravia, 4th Earl of Sutherland

• July 28 – Guy VIII of Viennois, Dauphin of Vienne (b. 1309)

• September 25 – Prince Morikuni, 9th Kamakura shogun of Japan (b. 1301)

• October 16 – Antipope Nicholas V

• November 15 – Nichimoku, Japanese priest, the 3rd high priest of Taisekiji temple and Nichiren Shoshu (b. 1260)