1375 to 1384

1375

x - Boccaccio died at his home in Certaldo.

1376

x - Hospitallers leased the Principality of Achaia from Joanna of Naples for 4,000 ducats per yearu.1381

jul 22 - The rats were piped out of Hamlin.

1377

c - Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect. He designed the dome of the Florence Cathedral.d.1446

x - Wycliffe + agrees to house arrest at Oxford

x - Leaving Avignon, Pope Gregory XI moves papal court to Rome ending the Babylonian Captivity.

x - Pope Gregory XI + issues five bulls against Wycliffe. re. List of Popes

x - Rioting ends John Wycliffe's trial at St. Paul's

x - King Edward III b.1312 of England dies.

jun 21 - England ?+ Richard II, who was still a child, succeeds his father, Edward III.

1378

x - Queen Mother ends Wycliffe's + trial at Lambeth Palace

x - Wool workers in Florence revolted after being hit with production quotas.

x - The Great Western Schism splits the Catholic Church u.1417 when two opposing are elected, Pope Urban V + in Rome and Pope Clement VII in Avignon. re. List of Popes

sep 20 - The election of Robert of Geneva as anti-pope by discontented cardinals created a great schism in the Catholic church.

dec 18 - Charles V denounced the treachery of John IV of Brittany and confiscated his duchy.

1380

x - Dmitri Donskoi defeats Golden Horde at Battle of Kulikovo, but Mongol domination continues until1480 .

x - Thomas a Kempis, German monk and author born: "Would to God that we might spend a single day really well." d.1471

x - England ?+ Henry Of Lancaster at 13 married Mary de Bohun, daughter and coheiress of Humphrey, the last Earl of Hereford.

1381

x - Wycliffe, with the assistance of his aides, intensifies his work on an English translation of Bible (from the Latin Vulgate not the Biblical Greek and Hebrew) This is the first translation of the Bible into the English tongue u.1384

x - John Wycliffe + publishes Confession, denying that the "substance" of bread and wine are miraculously changed during the Eucharist; Wycliffe withdraws from public to Lutterworth

jun 14 - The Peasant's Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, climaxed when rebels marched on Jordan, plundered, burned and captured the Tower of London and killed the Archbishop of Canterbury.The revolt was a response to a statute intended to hold down wages during a labor shortage. The peasant demands also included access to privately owned land.

jun 15 - The English peasant revolt was crushed in London. 30,000 rioters converge on London. It ends when Wat Tyler, their leader, is betrayed and killed .