1330 to 1344

1330

c - Japan ?+ Retired Emp. Go-Fushimi authored a plea to the god of the Kamo shrine for help in gaining the throne for his son, Prince Tokihito. Tokihito got to reign after a short delay when Go-Daigo refused to step down. Two years later Go-Daigo got the throne back.

x - John Wycliffe born in Wycliffe-on-Tees

x - Edward III seizes power, ends regencey of Isabella and Mortimer

x - Hospitallers continued crusade action from Rhodes u.1523

jun 15 - Edward the Black Prince, the eldest son of Edward III and Prince of Wales, was born. He will be the first Duke created in England ?+ as Duke of Cornwall.

1331

x - Na Prous Boneta was burned at the stake as a female heretic

x - Ibn Battuta, Arab traveler and scholar, visited Kilwa. He described Kilwa as "one of the most beautiful and well-constructed towns in the world."

1332

x - Descendants of earlier Ghorid rulers reasserted control over Afghanistan ?.u.1370

x - Mansa Musa, King of Mali, dies.His successors are not able to protect Mali's vast territory and Berber nomads began attacking caravan routes in the desert and threatened to take Timbuktu. People from the southern rain forests attacked the southern boundary and to the west the Sohghai of the middle Niger River began to revolt.

may 27 - Ibn Khaldun is born in Tunisd.1406.A historian, social scientist and political activist. He will develope theories on economics and politics. He will author the "Muqaddimah" (introduction to history), an in-depth analysis of the cyclical nature of the rise, maturation and decline of political regimes and economies.

1333

x - Japan ?+ The Ashikaga (or Muromachi) Period. u.1573

x - Japan The Kamakura Shogunate fell.

1334

x - Artist Giotto's great reputation gains him a supervisory job in building the Florence Cathedral.

x - Crusaders held the port of Smyrnau.1402

x - Japan ?+ Emperor Go-daigo temporarily regains power.

x - Crusader navy defeated Turkish pirates in the Gulf of Edremit

1336

x - Timur (aka Timur Lang or Timur Lenk or Tamerlane/Timurlane because of a lame leg) was a Tartar conqueror of a vast empire from southern Russia ? to Mongolia and southward to India ?+ , Persia, and Mesopotamia.u.1400's

x - 100 Years War +¢ Edward places an embargo on English exports of wool to Flanders.

1337

x - 100 Years War +¢ Philip declares Edward's fiefs forfeit and begins harassing the frontiers of Aquitaine.

x - The Hundred Years War was a series of wars between England and France ? in which England lost all possessions in France except Calais. u.1453

1338

x - Declaration of Rhense says Electors of Holy Roman Empire can select emperor without papal intervention

x - 100 Years War +¢ Edward III formally claims the French crown.

x - Japan ?+ The founding of the Ashikaga Shogunate.

1340

c - English poet Geoffrey Chaucer ?+* born

c - status A drought that lasted 1-2 centuries as measured from tree rings in the Sierra Nevada was centered on this time. It coincides with a Medieval warm period when Vikings navigated the waters surrounding Greenland. An earlier drought centered at1126 .

c - Double-entry bookkeeping was invented in Italy. s.1458

c - "Joseph of Arimathie," an alliterative poem written in English.

x - Petrarch arranged two invitations to be crowned poet laureate in Paris and in Rome. He chose Rome and was crowned on the Capitol on apr 08, 1341

jun 24 - The English fleet defeated the French fleet at Sluys, off the Flemish coast.