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1356

The majority of the Great Pyramid of Giza's limestone casing stones are removed by Bahri Sultan An-Nasir Nasir-ad-Din al-Hasan to build fortresses and mosques in the nearby city of Cairo, leaving the first of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World in the step-stone condition in which it remains today.

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1355

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- April - Philip of Anjou marries Mary of Naples, daughter of Charles of Valois, duke of Calabria, and Mary of Valois.

- April 5 - Charles IV crowned emperor in Rome.

- April 18 - In Venice, the Council of Ten beheads Doge Marin Falier for conspiring to kill them.

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1354

* February 12, Treaty of Stralsund settles border disputes between the duchies of Mecklenburg and Pomerania.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1353

The Decameron was finished by Giovanni Boccaccio.

Bern signs an alliance with the Swiss Confederation.

Re: Event of the Year
 

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

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- 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

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- 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.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1347

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- 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