1360 to 1374

1360

x - First francs coined in France

x - 100 Years War +¢ Peace of Bré;tigny

1361

x - Ireland ?+ An edict bans pure-blooded from becoming mayors, baillifs, officers of the king or clerygmen, serving the English.

x - England ?+ The first Corn Laws. They barred the export of corn in order to keep local grain supplies cheap.

1365

x - Palace of Popes at Avignon completed after 28 years of construction

x - Piers Plowman written by English poet over next 30 years

x - English becomes the authorized language of the law courts; French still used for legal documents

x - The University of Vienna was founded by Duke Rudolph IV.

x - A tax document lists the feudal property of Niccolo Acciaiuoli, head of a Florentine banking family. It included the castle of Agios Vasilios overlooking the road from Corinth to Argos in southern Greece. The territory had reverted to the Florentine family when the Franks defaulted on loans.

x - Crusaders under Peter I of Cyprus sacked Alexandria

1366

x - England ?+ Parliament refuses to pay feudal tribute to Pope

x - Ireland ?+ Statutes of Kilkenny were introduced to try to stop the assimilation of the 'English born in Ireland' into the Gaelic way of life by forbidding Irish/English marriages and preventing English to use Irish language, custom or laws.

x - Wang Meng painted "Dwelling in the Qingbian Mountains."

1367

x - First stone fortifications of Moscow Kremlin

jan 06 - Richard II, son of Edward the Black Prince, was born.

apr 03 - Spain ? John of Gaunt and Edward the Black Prince won the Battle of Najara.

apr 03 - Birth of Henry Bolingbroke, aka Henry of Lancaster and later Henry IV, King of Englandr.1399-1413 in Lincolnshire.

1368

x - The period of the Ming Dynasty in China. u.1664

x - Hong Wu -_h~ung-woo_- rules (fam. Zhu Yuanzhong -_jew-you-ahn-j~ung_-); Beggar, rebel leader, 1st Ming emperor; expels Tamerlane from China r.u.

x - Tamerlane lost control of China as the Mings took over local power. The Ming dynasty overthrew Mongol rule and slammed shut the Jade Gate to caravan traffic to Central Asia.

1369

x - Timur (aka Timur Lang or Timur Lenk or Tamerlane, so-named because of a lame leg) ruled from Samarkand.u.1405

x - Muzio Sforza, father of Francesco, Italian condotierre (leader of a private band of mercenary soldiers). d.1424

x - Hongwu, the first Ming emperor, established an imperial kiln at Jungdezhen in south-central China. It became a famous porcelain center.

x - 100 Years War +¢ Renewed fighting in France.

1370

c - Geoffrey Chaucer ?+* writes the Canterbury Tales * u.c.1390

x - England ?+ John Ball preaches man?s natural equality

x - 100 Years War +¢ French troops commanded by Bertrand du Guesclin.

x - Timour-i-Lang (Tamerlane) ruled over Afghanistan ?. u.1404 Afghan resistance was active.

x - Wycliffe's + First Presentation of his doctrine on the Eucharist; he clarifies a theme which is later enshrined as a central doctrine of The Reformation ?+¢

apr 11 - Frederick I the Warlike, elector of Saxony, was born.

1371

x - The Queen of England received several dolls dressed in the latest French fashion from the Queen of France. The outfits were copied by English dressmakers and costumed dolls from France went wherever French ships sailed. They were called mannequins.

x - Cheng Ho, eunuch admiral of the Ming dynasty, explored the Indian Ocean.d.1435

1373

x - Boccaccio begins a course of public readings of the The Divine Comedy * in the church of Santo Stefano in Florence. He accompanies the readings with commentaries, explaining to his largely illiterate audience of common people the meaning and relevance of what Dante had written.He encounters raging attacks of the learned against his program of bringing Dante to the attention and understanding of the common people.