Frame AD 1333 — world borders from AD 1333 to AD 1343. 145 countries have territory in this frame, and the largest is Yuan dynasty (≈ 14.11 million km²).
Countries with territory in this frame (145, largest first)
AD 1333 — In the twelfth month, day yichou, the Yao people of Guangxi invaded Hunan and took Daozhou; the thousand-household commander Guo Zhen died in battle, and the Yao, after burning and plundering, withdrew. (Xu Zizhi Tongjian (Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror) 권207 十二月 단락207.31.0)
AD 1337 — Zhu Guangqing, a native of Zengcheng County in Guangzhou, rebelled, called himself the Great Jin state, and set the era name Chifu. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史 卷39 順帝 1337年 1月)
AD 1337 — Bang Hu of Chenzhou gathered followers through incense-burning superstition, broke the Luyi county of Guidefu, and burned Chenzhou. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史 卷39 順帝 1337年)
AD 1337 — In the first month, day guimao, Zhu Guangqing of Zengcheng county, Guangzhou, rebelled; Shi Kunshan and Zong Daming joined him, called themselves 'Da Jin Guo', and changed the era name to Chifu; Commander Niusa'er and the Jiangxi Xingsheng Zuo Cheng suppressed them. (Xu Zizhi Tongjian (Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror) 권207 正月 단락207.0.0)
AD 1338 — Li Zhifu, of Nansheng County in Zhangzhou, rebelled and surrounded the walls of Zhangzhou. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史 卷39 順帝 1338年)
AD 1338 — In the sixth month, at Zhangzhou, Li Zhifu, a commoner of Nansheng county, gathered followers and besieged Zhangzhou city; the chieftain Chuosijian resisted but was at a disadvantage. (Xu Zizhi Tongjian (Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror) 권207 六月 단락207.17.0)
AD 1339 — Fan Meng of Qi County in Kaifeng falsely claimed imperial orders and killed Yuelu Tiemuer, Pingzhang of the Henan Branch Secretariat, and others. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史 卷40 順帝 1339年 8月)
AD 1335 — Yuan envoy Gyo-hwa-ga-ryeo-sa-sa-ga comes and beheads the envoy Tap-sa-bul-hwa of the Eo-hyang-sa, displaying his head in the market. (Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) 世家 卷35 忠肅 後四年)
AD 1339 — 1339: the former king posts a notice that Jo Jeok and others, armed with bows and swords, gathered men to plot rebellion, and says officials who come over will be forgiven. Jo Jeok's faction blocks the palace gate with carts lined up outside (Goryeosa Jeolyo (Essentials of Goryeo History) 권25 忠肅王 八年)
Central Asia (10)
AD 1333 — He parts from Tarmashirin and goes to Samarkand. Along the Foulons (fullers') river stand waterwheels and irrigated gardens, but much of the palace and city lies destroyed, with neither walls nor gates left; the author writes that the people are friendlier to strangers than those of Bukhara (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.51-52)
AD 1333 — From Samarkand, via Nasaf, he reaches Termez and stays at the monastery of Shaykh Ajizan (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.56-57)
AD 1333 — He meets the qadi of Termez, Kiyam al-Din, who was on his way to seek permission to travel to India; later, at Multan, he and the qadi's brothers went to India together (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.57-58)
AD 1333 — Crossing the Oxus (Jayhun) into Khurasan, after a day and a half through desert and sandy ground he reaches the ruined city of Balkh. Its solid buildings still look like a thriving city, but no one lives there (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.58)
AD 1333 — Leaving Balkh, after seven days through the mountains of Kuhistan he reaches Herat, one of the two prosperous cities among Khurasan's four great cities (the other being Nishapur) (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.63-64)
AD 1333 — Fearing the snows of the Hindu Kush, he stays about forty days near Kunduz, fattening up camels and horses. Under the strict justice of Emir Borlatay he is safe, and when horses disappear, the Tatars return them (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.82-84)
AD 1333 — Passing the old ruins of Penjhir and the mountain of Pashai, where he meets Shaykh Ata Awliya, said to be 350 years old, he reaches Parwan and meets Emir Borlatay, who writes a letter to the officials of Ghazna asking that he be treated well (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.86-88)
AD 1333 — Passing Charkh, he arrives at Ghazna, the capital of Sultan Mahmud, now mostly in ruins, its people moving to Kandahar in winter. He is hosted in a village on the riverbank below the citadel by Emir Merdek Aga (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.88-89)
AD 1333 — From Ghazna he goes to Kabul; the old great city is now a village of Afghan tribes, who are notorious as mountain bandits (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.89-90)
AD 1335 — Two years after arriving in India, he learns that Tatar nobles had made his cousin Buzun king and deposed Tarmashirin for violating Genghis Khan's law code. Tarmashirin, trying to flee to Ghazna with only fifteen men, was seized at Balkh by the men of his nephew Yanki and imprisoned (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.39-43)
South Asia (57)
AD 1333 — After several days at the camp, one dawn after prayer, he meets Sultan Ala al-Din Tarmashirin at the mosque. The sultan greets him in Turkish, calls him into his tent, and asks about Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, Damascus, Egypt and the two Iraqs (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.33-35)
AD 1333 — After staying fifty-four days beside the sultan, when he is about to leave he receives 700 silver dinars, a sable fur robe worth 100 dinars, two horses and two camels; the sultan puts the fur on him himself (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.38-39)
AD 1333 — From Nishapur he goes to Bistam, home of the saint Abu Yazid al-Bistami; his tomb is there, and he stays at the monastery of the saint (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.82)
AD 1333 — He waits for warm weather to cross the Hindu Kush, 'killer of Indians'; he sets out toward the end of the night, going nonstop until the next evening, with felt spread before the camels. Having crossed, he reaches the old city site of Andarab (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.84-85)
AD 1333 — Passing the Kermakh fortress between two mountains, he fights off a band of Afghan robbers on the hillside with arrows. Separated from the line because of his camels, he rejoins it after evening prayer, and spends the night at the post station of Charkh Nagar (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.90-91)
AD 1333 — Leaving Charkh Nagar, the last settlement in Turkish lands, he enters a great desert of fifteen days. It can be crossed only in early July after the rains, and the poisonous wind (asamum) blows, rotting corpses. Khudawandzada's party went ahead; many camels and horses died, but they safely reached the Panjab (Indus) (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.91-92)
AD 1333 — Reaching the banks of the Indus (Panjab, 'five rivers'), that night he sees the new moon of Muharram 734 AH (12 September 1333). From here the lands of Sultan Muhammad Shah begin, and the news officials report his arrival to the governor of Multan (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.92-94)
AD 1333 — The news officials report the travelers' arrival to Qutb al-Mulk, governor of Multan, and this report is passed on by post (barid) to the Delhi sultan too. The governor of Sind is Sertiz, a former slave, at Sehwan (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.94)
AD 1333 — After crossing the Indus, a rhinoceros (karkaddan) emerges from the reeds, gores a horseman's mount and runs away. He sees another during the journey and once more later on a hunt with the sultan (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.100-101)
AD 1333 — After crossing the Indus and walking two days, he reaches Janani, a large and beautiful city on the riverbank, home of the Samira tribe, with an elegant market (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.101)
AD 1334 — At the birth of Hayam Wuruk (later King Rajasanagara) the earth shook; rain, lightning and thunder came, and thunder rolled from Mount Kampud. (Nagarakretagama raw 줄 56, 필사 쪽 (92b))
AD 1335 — The retired ruler personally attacked Ai Lôi but was defeated, and Đoàn Nhữ Hài drowned. (Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư 本紀卷之七 「乙亥七年<sub>元至元元年</」)
AD 1343 — The king of Bali was punished for his crime (dus cila), and his army collapsed; Bali was subjugated. (Nagarakretagama raw 줄 1500, 필사 쪽 (112b))
West Asia (5)
AD 1333 — From Herat he goes to Jam. It is a beautiful medium-sized city of mulberry trees and silk, said to have been founded by Shihab al-Din Ahmad Jam, and it has a monastery (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.75)
AD 1333 — From Jam he goes through Tus to the tomb of Imam Ali al-Rida (Mashhad al-Rida). Opposite the dome decorated with silver plates and silver lamps is the tomb of Harun al-Rashid (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.77-79)
AD 1333 — From Mashhad he goes to Sarakhs, home of Shaykh Luqman Sarakhsi (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.79)
AD 1333 — From Sarakhs he goes to Zaveh, the home of Shaykh Qutb al-Din Haydar, of the Haydari dervish order, whose members hang iron rings on their bodies (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.79-80)
AD 1333 — He leaves Zaveh and arrives at Nishapur, one of Khurasan's four great cities. Called 'Little Damascus', it has a mosque in the middle of the market, adjoining four schools; silk and velvet woven there are exported to India. He stays at Shaykh Qutb al-Din's monastery (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.80-81)
Sub-Saharan Africa (1)
AD 1336 — The dynasty of the people of Melle begins to rule Timbuktu for 100 years (Tarikh al-Sudan (Chronicle of the Sudan) Houdas 1900 불역 장 VII (houdas1900_fr_djvu.txt 줄 2381))
Eastern Europe & Russia (9)
AD 1333 — Ivan, seated in Torzhok, harasses the territory of Novgorod. (Novgorod First Chronicle litopys 기사 1333년)
AD 1337 — In 1337 Sweden broke the peace, sheltered the rebel Karelians in Vyborg and helped kill merchants of Ladoga and Novgorod. (Karamzin, History of the Russian State 제4권 IX장)
AD 1338 — A great flood of the Volkhov washes away ten spans of the large bridge. (Novgorod First Chronicle litopys 기사 1338년)
AD 1340 — Ivan Danilovich dies in Moscow after taking monastic vows; the princes go to the Horde. (Novgorod First Chronicle litopys 기사 1340년)
AD 1341 — Olgerd, prince of Vitebsk (son of Gediminas), besieged Mozhaysk just as Simeon had disbanded his army. (Karamzin, History of the Russian State 제4권 X장)
AD 1342 — Pskov, hearing of a German invasion, asks for help, and Novgorod hurries out on campaign. (Novgorod First Chronicle litopys 기사 1342년)
AD 1343 — In 1343 an uprising across Estonia killed the Danes and Germans, besieged Reval (Tallinn) and took the fortress of Ezel. (Karamzin, History of the Russian State 제4권 X장)
AD 1343 — Pskovians on a campaign into German land face the Germans on Lake Ostretsino. (Novgorod First Chronicle litopys 기사 1343년)