16 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.
What happened
China (2)
Emperor Wenzong died at Shangdu, and the empress, by her last will, passed the throne to the son of Mingzong. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史 卷37 寧宗 1332年 8月)
Ningzong ascended the throne at the Daming Hall and granted a great amnesty. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史 卷37 寧宗 1332年 10月)
Korean Peninsula (1)
Jo Jeok and others attack the royal palace at night, but the palace guards shoot and kill them, and the corpses are thrown beneath the Sun-gun Namgyo Bridge. (Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) 世家 卷36 忠惠 二年)
Central Asia (9)
Leaving Serachuk, they cross thirty days of desert at a brisk pace, halting only twice a day (about ten in the morning and at sunset) for two hours each time, and reach Khwarazm. Water comes only from wells and rain, two to three days apart (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.2-3)
They are received by the governor of Khwarazm, the emir of Uzbek Khan, Qutlugh Dumur. The emir, with his foot bandaged for gout, sits and asks about the khan, the khatun and Constantinople; a feast of roast chicken, crane and pomegranates is laid out (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.10-11)
The emir orders a gift of 1,000 dirhams of silver (about 300 gold dinars) for the traveler, following the qadi's advice that giving it whole is better than spending five hundred on a feast; with this money, a black horse is bought for 35 silver dinars (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.12-13)
The emir's wife, Torabek Khatun, holds a feast at a monastery she founded, gathering scholars and leading citizens, and gives gifts of sable furs and fine horses (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.14)
Setting out from Khwarazm on the eighteen-day desert road to Bukhara, they reach Kath, the only settlement on the route, in four days, and stay beside a frozen pond (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.19-20)
After walking all day between gardens and canals, they reach Bukhara. Destroyed by Genghis Khan, most of its mosques, schools, and markets lie in ruins; the author writes that its people have a bad reputation for partiality and deceit, so their testimony is not accepted (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.22)
He stays at the Saif al-Din Bakharzi monastery at Fetli Abad ('Abode of Victory'), outside Bukhara. The superior holds a feast with Qur'an recitation and Turkish and Persian songs (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.27-28)
He visits the tomb of the hadith scholar al-Bukhari. The tombstones of Bukhara's scholars were inscribed with their names and works; the author notes that his copy of these inscriptions was later lost when he was robbed at sea in India (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.28)
Leaving Bukhara for the camp of Sultan Tarmashirin, he passes through Nakhshab and stays outside the walls at the governor's house (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.28-29)
South Asia (4)
Leaving Sarai, after ten days' walk they reach Serachuk ('Little Sarai'). A pontoon bridge spans the great river (Ural/Yaik). There they sell the horses that pulled the carts (no more than four dinars of silver each) and hire camels to draw the wagons (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.1)
From Kath, six days by a route without water bring them to Wabkeneh, one day from Bukhara. There grapes are kept until the next year, and plums are dried and sold to India and China (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.21)
Reaches the sultan's camp the same evening at Nakhshab. The sultan is away hunting, so he meets the deputy emir, Tughbugha, and is assigned a tent (khargah) beside the mosque (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.29-30)
The pregnant slave woman he had brought gives birth that night in the tent. He hears it is a boy, but a week later it turns out to be a girl; the author notes in advance that this girl dies two months after they reach India (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.30)