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1327

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

Events

= January – March =

= April – June =

= July – September =

  • July 4 – During a banquet given by Galeazzo I Visconti in Milan, an attempt is apparently made to poison the guest of honor, Ludwig the Bavarian, newly crowned as King of Italy. Galeazzo's brother, Stefano Visconti, becomes ill after tasting food and drink intended for Ludwig and dies suddenly at home. Stefano's brothers Galeazzo, Giovanni, and Luchino, along with his nephew Azzone Visconti, are all imprisoned on orders of the Holy Roman Emperor based on accusations of a fourth brother, Marco Visconti.
  • August 25 – Demasq Kaja, Viceroy of Azerbaijan and of Iraq in the Ilkhanate, the Mongol Empire's area of control in the Middle East, is killed in Soltaniyeh after trying to escape arrest on orders of the Ilkhan, Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan. Abu Sa'id had concluded that Demasq's father, Amir Chūpān, was attempting to take over the Ilkhanate.
  • September 21 – Less than a year after his arrest, the former King of England, Edward II, is brutally murdered in Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire.Raphael Holinshed, ed., [http://english.nsms.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/texts.php?text1=1587_3941 Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland] (1587)"Monarchy, Martyrdom and Masculinity: England in the Later Middle Ages", by W. Mark Ormrod, in Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages (University of Wales Press, 2004) pp. 174–191

= October – December =

  • October 23 – Pope John XXII condemns Marsilius of Padua's 1324 treatise Defensor pacis (The Defender of Peace). The excommunicated Marsilius flees to Germany and seeks protection at the court of King Louis the Bavarian. John also excommunicates Louis and demands that he relinquishes his claim to the imperial crown.Hywel Williams (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History, p. 159. {{ISBN|0-304-35730-8}}.
  • October 27 – Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen consort of Scotland as the wife of King Robert the Bruce, is fatally injured when she falls from her horse while traveling with her entourage to Cullen Castle in Banffshire.
  • November 5 – At Barcelona, Prince Alfonso the Kind becomes the new King of Aragon upon the death of his father, King Jaime II, and is enthroned as King Alfonso IV.
  • December 11 – Simon Mepeham is elected as England's new Archbishop of Canterbury as the candidate of the Earl of Lancaster leader of the regency council.E. B. Fryde, et al., Handbook of British Chronology (Cambridge University Press, 1996) p.233 Mepeham defeats the candidate supported by Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer, and soon works with King Edward III to end Mortimer's power in England.Alison Weir, Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery and Murder in Medieval England (Ballantine 2005) p.306
  • December 18 – Pope John XXII appoints 10 new Roman Catholic cardinals, the most during his papacy, including Jacques Fournier, who will succeed Pope John as Pope Benedict XII in 1334."Consistories for the creation of Cardinals 14th Century (1303-1404): John XXII (1316-1334)", in The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, by Salvador Miranda (Florida International University, 1998)
  • December 20 – The late King Edward II of England is buried in the Gloucester Cathedral in Gloucestershire, three months after his death.
  • December 22 – Ala ud-Din Timurtash, the Viceroy for Anatolia within the Ilkhanate of the Middle East, and the brother of Demasq Kaja, learns that the Ilkhan Abu Sa'id had arranged for the execution of Demasq."Anatolia under the Mongols", in The Cambridge History of Turkey, ed. by Charles Melville and Kate Fleet (Cambridge University Press, 2009) Fearing for his own safety, Timurtash decides to leave and eventually flees to Egypt, but will be executed there on August 12, 1328.

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== Literature ==

== Trade and Transport ==

  • In China, the Grand Canal, which runs from Beijing to Hangzhou over a distance of 1,800 km, is completed.{{cite web |title=How to Downsize a Transport Network: The Chinese Wheelbarrow |url=https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/the-chinese-wheelbarrow.html |website=LOW-TECH MAGAZINE}}

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