The 1330s decade ran from January 1, 1330, to December 31, 1339. Events and trends The poet Petrarch coined 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. 1333 – End of the Kamakura period and beginning of the Kemmu restoration in Japan.… (More on 1330s)