1315 to 1329

1315

x - England ?+ experienced a great famine brought on by too much water.u.1316

x - The Church of the Holy Virgin was built in Musutiste, Kosovo.

x - France ? Parisian bakers were found guilty of mixing flour with animal droppings during the Great Famine.

x - After Battle of Bannockburn, Edward Bruce of Scotland invaded Ireland ?+ but failed in his attempt to overthrow Norman Rule.

nov 15 - Swiss soldiers ambushed and slaughtered invading Austrians in the battle of Morgarten.

1316

x - John XXII + becomes Pope ?+. u.1334 re. List of Popes

x - Albert of Saxony aka Albertuccio or little Al, German Scholastic philosopher and physicist. d.1390

1318

x - Edward Bruce killed by the English, near Dundalk, after having failed to become the Ard Ri, so long sought after by the Irish.

1319

x - Dante ?* moved to Ravenna, to the court of Guido Novello da Polenta. He died there in 1321.

1320

c - Russia ? Peter the Metropolitan moved from the capital Vladimir to Moscow.

x - Quaestio de Aqua et de Terra by Dante ?* from an earlier speech.

sep 09 - Teutonic Knight + commander in the Morea died in battle against the Greeks near the fortress of St. George

1321

sep 14 - Dante Alighieri ?* author of the The Divine Comedy *, dies.The poem was completed just before his death. It was written in Italian rather than Latin and helps make Italian the dominant linguistic force in European literature for the next several centuries.

1322

x - The Baltic froze over and a cold spell pervaded Europe.

x - Arabian writers recorded ideas about artificial insemination.

1324

x - Mansa Musa, king of Mali, made the 3,500 mile pilgrimage to Mecca with gold valued at $115 million in 1999 prices. He traveled with a very large retinue that included 80 camels and 500 slaves. An Arab chronicler said he was surrounded by over 10,000 of his subjects.u.1325

1325

c - "Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch" (White Book of Rhydderch), an incomplete version of Mabinogion, contains "Culhwch and Olwen," the "Dream of Macsen Wledig" and many religious texts.

x - Mexico City has its beginning in the city of Tenochtitlan founded by Aztecs in Lake Texcoco

x - Ibn Battuta, a Muslim +, left his home in Tangier to journey to Mecca. He traveled in Arabia, Asia, Africa, and Spain and recorded many exciting adventures.u.1355

1326

x - First mention of gunpowder (in Venice) for warfare

x - Queen Isabella and her paramour, Roger Mortimer, invade England and capture her husband, Edward II

mar 05 - Louis I (the Great), King of Hungary, was born.

1327

x - Moscow becomes seat of metropolitan of Russian Orthodox Church.

x - Germany ? The Pfalzgrafenstein castle was built on the Rhine near the village of Bacharach.

x - Ivan +, prince of Moscow, nicknamed Kalita ("money bags"), affirmed as "Grand Prince of Vladimir" by Mongols

jan 07 - Edward II of England was deposed.s.jan 20

jan 20 - Edward II of England ?+ was deposed by his eldest son, Edward III.see jan 07

feb 01 - Edward III was crowned King of England.

apr 06 - Petrarch met Laura in a church at Avignon, and was inspired for the rest of his life.He wrote his finest poems about her beauty and loveliness and about his later recognition that he had loved her wrongly, placing her person ahead of her spirit.

sep 21 - Edward II of England was murdered by order of his wife, Isabella, her 14-year-old son becomes Edward III .