Year 1319 (MCCCXIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December May 8 – Upon the death of his maternal grandfather, King Haakon V, three-year-old Magnus Eriksson becomes King of Norway. July 8 – Three-year-old Magnus Eriksson is elected king of Sweden, thus establishing a union with Norway. His mother Ingeborg of Norway is given a place in the regency, in both Sweden and Norway. July 23 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet, off Chios. September 20 – Battle of Myton: The forces of Robert the Bruce defeat an English army. December 22 – The infante James of Aragon renounces his right to inherit the Crown of Aragon and his marriage to Eleanor of Castile, in order to become a monk. Unknown date – a strong earthquake devastates the city of Ani in medieval Armenia, reducing many of its churches to rubble and causing the mass migration of citizens away from the partly-ruined city. Births March 20 – Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke (d. 1348) April 26 – King John II of France (d. 1364) September 5 – King Peter IV of Aragon (d. 1387) date unknown James I, Count of La Marche (d. 1362) Märta Ulfsdotter, Swedish lady-in-waiting (d. 1371) Charles, Duke of Brittany (d. 1364) John of Bridlington, English saint (d. 1379) Kikuchi Takemitsu, Japanese general (d. 1373) Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1375) Bernabò Visconti, Italian soldier and statesman (d. 1385) possible – Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1389) Deaths May 8 – King Haakon V of Norway (b. 1270) May 19 – Louis, Count of Évreux, son of King Philip III of France (b. 1276) August 12 – Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1274) August 14 – Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal (b. c. 1280) November 1 – Uguccione della Faggiuola, Italian condottieri (b. c. 1250) November 2 – John Sandale, Bishop of Winchester November 13 – King Eric VI of Denmark (b. 1274) date unknown Guan Daosheng, Chinese painter and poet (b. 1262) Ingeborg Magnusdotter of Sweden, queen consort of Denmark (b. 1277) Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī, Persian scientist (b. 1267) Jordan Óge de Exeter, Anglo-Irish knight Remigio dei Girolami, Italian theologian (b. 1235) References