1330s

The 1330s was a decade that began on 1 January 1330 and ended on 31 December 1339. It is distinct from the decade known as the 134th decade which began on January 1, 1331 and ended on December 31, 1340.

• The poet Petrarch coins the pejorative term Dark Ages to describe the preceding 900 years in Europe, beginning with the fall of the western Roman Empire in 410 through to the renewal embodied in the Renaissance.