1345 to 13591345x - Cathedral of Notre Dame completed in Paris after 182 years of construction
x - A Florentine wool worker was hanged for holding a public meeting to organize colleagues.
x - The Frisian victory over the Dutch on the beach at Warns was their last before the Dutch took over.
1346jun 11 - Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany ?.s.jul 11
aug 25 - 100 Years War +¢ Edward III of England ?+ defeated Philip VI's army at the Battle of Cré;cy in France ?.The longbow proved instrumental in the victory as French knights on horseback outnumbered the British 3 to 1. At the end of the battle 1,542 French lords and knights were killed along with 20,000 soldiers. The English lost 2 knights and 80 men.
sep 03 - 100 Years War Edward III of England began the siege of Calais, along the coast of France.
oct 17 - English forces defeated the Scots under David II during the Battle of Neville's Cross, Scotland.
1347x - John VI Cantacuzenus ruled over Byzantium. He then abdicated and became and monk and went on to deal with Rome over the unification of Christendom. u.1354
x - Jerusalem +¢ again conquered by Mamelukes.
x - Plague + broke out among the troops of the Kipchak Khan, who was besieging the Black Sea port of Kaffa. He catapulted dead bodies over the city walls. When Italian trading vessels in the harbor returned to Genoa, they carried the plague to Messina, in Sicily. From this time forth the disease became an epidemic. It moved over the next few years to northern Italy, North Africa, France, Spain, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Germany, the Low countries, England, Scandinavia and the Baltic. There were lesser outbreaks in many cities for the next twenty years. An estimated 25 million died in Europe and economic depression followed.u.oct 1352
may 20 - Cola di Rienzo took the title of tribune in Rome.
aug 03 - Six burghers of the surrounded French city of Calais surrendered to Edward III of England in hopes of relieving the 11 month siege. English rule lasted for more than two centuries.
1348x - Black Death + reaches England
x - France ? Plague arrived at Montpellier in the spring and killed an estimated two-thirds of the 50,000 inhabitants.
x - Plague devastated the Byzantine Empire
x - Accused of being a cause of the plague, the Jews in France were dragged from their houses and burned.Pogroms occurred throughout Europe. When the plague subsided, few Jews were left in Germany ? or the Low Countries.
x - Boccaccio retired from plague-stricken Florence, and in a country residence began to write the Decameron.
apr 06 - Laura, the arch love of Petrarch died of the plague.
apr 23 - King Edward III of England established the Order of the Garter, the first English order of knighthood.
1349x - Death of William of Ockham, English philosopher, who sowed seeds of independance of church and state
x - The eldest son of the king of France was referred to as the dauphine, as an honor to the Dauphine province after its cession to France. u.1830
x - Nearly all the Jews of Worms were murdered on false accusations that they brought on the Plague + by poisoning the wells.
feb 14 - Germany ? 2,000 Jews were burned at the stake in Strasbourg.
feb 22 - Switzerland Jews were expelled from Zurich.
1350c - "Cronica sive Antiquitates Glastoniensis Ecclesiae" (Chronicle or Antiquities of the Church of Glastonbury), by John Seen, a monk of Glastonbury, continuing the history of the abbey originally begun by William of Malmesbury 220 years before.Much Arthurian material is here, including an account of the discovery of his grave and a prophecy of Melkin, allegedly a 5th century British bard, in which the grail and the grave of Joseph of Arimathea are said to have been at Glastonbury.
x - England ?+ In Northumberland Langley Castle was built with 7-foot thick walls on a wooded estate.
x - Boccaccio met Petrarch in Florence.
x - The leaning tower of Pisa was constructed.
x - Maori ancestors arrived at New Zealand on seven legendary canoes from Hawaii, the mother-island of the east Polynesians.
x - At Powers Fort, Missouri, there was a Mississippian cultural-civic-ceremonial center consisting of a small village and four mounds.
x - Sargis Pitsak, Armenian artist, produced illuminated manuscripts of the bible. Color picture "Souls Ascending the Heavenly Ladder to Christ,"
mar 27 - While besieging Gibraltar, Alfonso XI of Castile died of the Black Death +.
aug 22 - John II, also known as John the Good, succeeded Philip VI as king of France.
1351x - England ?+ The Statute of Treasons was passed under which anyone who violated the wife of the heir to the throne was guilty of high treason.
x - The east African Kingdom of Dongala became hemmed in by Muslim + states such as Kordofan and Darfur and was forced to surrender to Egypt ? its territory north of the third cataract. Axum was harried by the Muslims of Funj and the people retreated into the mountains and developed into the isolated Christian kingdom of Ethiopia.
1352x - Belgium The gothic Cathedral of Our Lady was begun in Antwerp. It was completed in the 16th century.
x - status The Black Death + by this year had killed 25 million people in Europe alone.
x - Ibn Battuta decided to cross the Sahara Desert. The journey took two months to complete the 1,200 miles.
1353x - Ibn Battuta spent a few months in Mali and left a full description of his experiences.
x - In Laos Luang Prabang was founded. It was the royal capital of the kingdom of Laos and a center of Laotian Buddhism ?+¢ and court arts.
1355dec 20 - Stephen Urosh IV of Serbia died while marching to attack Constantinople +.
1356x - 'The Golden Bull' of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV transforms empire from monarchy into aristocratic federation to last 450 years
sep 19 - 100 Years War +¢ In a landmark battle of the War, English Prince Edward defeated the French at Poitiers.
13581359c - Owain Glyndwr Owen Glendower of Wales born, leader of a bloody revolt against Henry IV in1400. The event was marked by a comet. d.c.1460
x - First Swedish Riksdag (parliament); all classes represented
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