6 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.
What happened
South Asia (5)
Every year on 9 January the sultan leaves Delhi to strike the rebels of the Mabar province; the author had already been ordered to remain in Delhi (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.427)
The vizier gave him a deed for grain for the monastery: 10,000 mans already delivered, the rest to be received at Hazar Amrouha. The author goes to Amrouha to collect the grain (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.436)
The sultan, going to Mabar, at Tilang saw an epidemic spread in the army; he returned to Daulatabad, had a camp built on the banks of the Ganges, and stayed there. The author goes to the sultan at this camp (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.443)
The author's visit to Shaykh Shihab al-Din (son of al-Jam'), a cave-dweller outside Delhi, angers the sultan, and he is nearly punished; the author writes that God saved him (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.444)tradition
The sultan orders the abolition of trade duties in all his territories, leaving only one tax called alms (tithe) (Ibn Battuta, Travels III p.288)
Eastern Europe & Russia (1)
Ivan Danilovich dies in Moscow after taking monastic vows; the princes go to the Horde. (Novgorod First Chronicle litopys 기사 1340년)