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1352

Morroccan traveller Ibn Battuta reports the existence of the ngoni (a banjo like instrument)and balafon (similar to a xylophone) instruments at the court of Mansa Musa.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1351

:jossun:

- End of the reign of Emperor Suko of Japan, third of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders

- Start of the reign of Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan, fourth of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders

- May 1 Zürich joins the Swiss Confederation.

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1350

- 29 August - An English fleet personally commanded by King Edward III defeats a Spanish fleet in the battle of Les Espagnols sur Mer.
- Hayam Wuruk becomes ruler of the Majapahit Empire.
- The Black Death ravages Europe. (1347-1351)

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1349

:jossun:

- January 9 - The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland is rounded up and incinerated, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague.

- February 14 - On Valentine's Day 2,000 Jews are burned to death in Strasbourg.

- August 24 - Black Death outbreak in Elbing (modern-day Elblag in Poland).

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1348

- April 7 - Charles University is founded in Prague.

- June 24 - Black Death outbreak in full swing in Melcombe Regis (modern-day Weymouth, Dorset in England)

- July 6 - Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting Jews against popular aggressivity during the Black Death epidemic.

- Beginning of Black Death epidemic in central and western Europe

- End of the reign of Emperor Komyo of Japan, second of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders

- Start of the reign of Emperor Suko of Japan, third of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders

- May - Black Death reaches England

- Edward III of England creates the first English order of chivalry, the Order of the Garter

- Pskov gains independence from the Novgorod Republic with the treaty of Bolotovo; Pskov Republic formed.

- Black Death in Cairo.

- Estimation: Hangzhou in Mongolian China becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Cairo, capital of Mamluk Egypt.

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1347

:jossun:

- The Black Death ravages Europe (1347-1351)

- Roman Commoner Cola di Rienzo proclaims himself a new Roman dictator in Capitoline Hill in Rome; Pope Clement VI denounces him as a pagan and a heretic and he is driven out of the city by the end of the year

Re: Event of the Year
 

1346

Battle of Crecy after which Edward the Black Prince honoured the bravery of John I, Count of Luxemburg and King of Bohemia also known as John the Blind who was killed in the fighting, by adopting his arms and motto "Ich Dien" or "I Serve"

Re: Event of the Year
 

1345

Holland, Hainaut and Zeeland are inherited by emperor Louis IV of the Holy Roman Empire and becomes part of the imperial crown domain, until 1347.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1344

English king Edward III introduces three new gold coins, the florin. leopard, and helm. Unfortunately the amount of gold in the coins does not match their value of six shillings, three shillings, and one shilling and sixpence, so they have to be withdrawn and mostly melted down by August of this year.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1343

:jossun:

- Magnus II of Sweden abdicates from the throne of Norway in favor of his son Haakon VI of Norway. However Haakon is still a minor, allowing Magnus to be the de facto ruler.

- January 27, Pope Clement VI issues his Bull Unigenitus, defining the doctrine of "The Treasury of Merits" or "The Treasury of the Church" as the basis for the issuance of indulgences by the Catholic Church.

- St. George's Night Uprising

Re: Event of the Year
 

1342

April 24 - Pope Benedict XII dies
May - Pope Clement VI elected

Re: Event of the Year
 

1341

:jossun:

- The Queen's College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is founded.

- Petrarch is crowned poet laureate in Rome, the first man since antiquity to be given this honor.

- Beginning of the Breton War of Succession over the control of the Duchy of Brittany

- Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, expels her husband John Henry of Bohemia, to whom she had been married as a child. She subsequently marries Louis of Bavaria without having been divorced, which results in the excommunication of the couple.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1340

January 26 - King Edward III of England is declared King of France

how does that work? A English man is king of France?

Re: Event of the Year
 

1339

Emperor Go-Murakami ascends to the throne of Japan

(I wonder who's going to get the 1337 year...lol)

Re: Event of the Year
 

1338

:jossun:

- Ashikaga Takauji granted title of Shogun by the emperor of Japan.

- Nicomedia is captured by the ottoman empire.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1337

Year of the Leet (lol)

Beginning of the Hundred Years' War (c. 1337-1453) between France and England

Re: Event of the Year
 

1336

:jossun:

- End of the Kemmu restoration and beginning of the Muromachi period in Japan.

- Start of the reign of Emperor Kōmyō, second of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders

- Foundation of Vijayanagara on the southern part of the Deccan plateau in India by the brothers Harihara and Bukka Raya.

- Aberdeen is burned by the English.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1335

Carinthia and Carniola come under Habsburg rule. After the death of Duke Henry, the duchies are bestowed by Louis the Bavarian on the dukes of Austria. From that time onwards, what is today Slovenia was ruled jointly with Austria until 1918.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1334

- January 4 - Amadeus VI of Savoy (died 1383)
- January 13 - King Henry II of Castile (died 1379)
- May 25 - Emperor Suko of Japan (died 1398)
- August 30 - King Peter I of Castile (died 1369)
- King James I of Cyprus (died 1398)
- Hayam Wuruk, Javanese ruler (died 1389)

Re: Event of the Year
 

1333

July 19 - Battle of Halidon Hill, last of the wars of Scottish Independence
Blanche d'Evreux, French princess (died 1398)

Re: Event of the Year
 

1332

- February 18 - Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces (possibly in 1329).

- August 11 - Battle of Dupplin Moor in Scotland

- November 7 - Lucerne joins the Swiss Confederation with Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden.

- The city of Târgu Mureş (Romania) was first documented in the papal registry under the name Novum Forum Siculorum.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1331

Start of the reign of Emperor Kogon of Japan, first of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1330

- The Bulgars under Michael III are beaten by the Serbs at Velbuzhd, and large parts of Bulgaria fall to Serbia.

- October 19 - King Edward III of England starts his personal reign, executing his regent Roger Mortimer

- Vilnius in Lithuania received its coat-of-arms. It was granted to the city in the seventh year of its existence.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1329

:jossun:

- Antipope Nicholas V is excommunicated by Pope John XXII.

- Aimone of Savoy becomes Count of Savoy.

- Construction begins on the cathedral of Frombork, Poland.

- Amberg, Germany passes to the Wittelsbach family.

- Michael of Cesena is deposed as General of the Franciscans.

- Stefan Dusan defeats the Bosnian ban Stephen II Kotromanić.

- Wiesbaden is granted the right of coinage by Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor.

- David II becomes King of Scotland.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1328

Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton - England recognises Scotland as an independent nation after the Wars of Scottish Independence

Re: Event of the Year
 

1327

:jossun:

- January 25 - Edward III becomes King of England.

- Beginning of reign of Alfonso IV of Aragon.

- April 6 - Petrarch sees a woman he names Laura in the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon, which awakes in him a lasting passion. He writes a series of poems dedicated to her, which are collected into his Canzoniere ("Song Book").

Re: Event of the Year
 

1326

- 3 June - Treaty of Novgorod delineates the border between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.

- Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Osman I (1299-1326) to Orhan I (1326-1359)

- Aradia de Toscano, is initiated into a Dianic cult of Italian Witchcraft (Stregheria), and discovers through a vision that she is the human incarnation of the goddess Aradia. Known as La Bella Pelegrina amongst the outlaws near Lake Nemi, she becomes the leader of a religious anarchist movement.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1325

:jossun:


- January 7: Alfonso IV becomes the King of Portugal.

- Muhammed Tughlaq succeeds his father Ghiyas al-Din Tughlaq as Sultan of Delhi.

- March 18: Tenochtitlan founded.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1324

Mansa Kankan Musa I, ruler of the Mali Empire arrives in Cairo on his hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca. With an entourage numbering in the thousands, and so generous with his gold that the price of gold in that city didn't recover for 20 years, his presence in Cairo is remembered for almost a century.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1323

Pharos of Alexandria Lighthouse (one of the Seven Wonders of the world) is destroyed by a series of earthquakes

Re: Event of the Year
 

1322

:jossun:

- September 27/September 28 - Battle of Ampfing, often called the last battle of knights, in which Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria

Re: Event of the Year
 

1321

Battle on the Irpen' River

Re: Event of the Year
 

1320

:jossun:


- January 20 - Dante - Quaestio de Aqua et Terra.

- January 20 - Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland.

- April 6 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.

- Ghiyas al-Din Tughlaq founds the Tughlaq dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.

- The Venetian Arsenal is rebuilt as the Arsenal Nuovo.

- Second Shepherds' Crusade.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1319

Magnus VII ascends the throne of Norway and unites the country with Sweden.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1318

:jossun:

- April 1: Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English.

- Emperor Go-Daigo ascends to the throne of Japan.

- End of the reign of Emperor Hanazono, emperor of Japan.

- Pope John XXII declares the doctrines of the Franciscans advocating ecclesiastical poverty erroneous.

- Qala'un Mosque, Cairo, Egypt founded by Al-Nasr Muhammad.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1317

The Great Famine of 1315-1317.

Re: Event of the Year
 

Pope John XXII elected to the papacy.

The Great Famine of 1315-1317 is at its peak. I just looked more into this and people started eating each other because they where that hungry :yuck:

Re: Event of the Year
 

1315

:jossun:

* August - Louis X is crowned King of France at Reims.
* August 13 - Louis X of France marries Clemence d'Anjou.
* November 15 - Swiss defeat Leopold of Austria at Battle of Morgarten, ensuring independence for the Swiss Confederation.
* Hojo Mototoki becomes Kamakura shogun of Japan.
* Eudes IV succeeds Hugh V as Duke of Burgundy.
* John XIII Glykys becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
* Flushing is granted city rights.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1314

The Mappa Mundi (Map of the World) is made. It showed Jerusalem at the centre, as decreed in the Bible.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1313

- Siege of Rostock ends
- Foundation year of the Order of the Rose Cross (Rosicrucian Order), according to the Rosicrucian Fellowship. According to major occult writers, this Order was for the first time expounded in Dante's The Divine Comedy (1308–1321)

Re: Event of the Year
 

1312

:jossun:

- June 15 : Battle near Rozgoni

- Battle near Thebes

- Siege of Rostock begins

- Lancelotto Malocello, a Genoese navigator, sails to the island of Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands, and remains there for almost two decades.