14th Century

Events 1310s – The Great Famine of 1315

The Great Famine of 1315 – 1317  Events  The Great Famine of 1315–1317 kills millions of people in Europe. 1318–1330: An Italian Franciscan friar, Mattiussi, visited Sumatra, Java, and Banjarmasin in Borneo. In his record he described the kingdom of Majapahit.  In France, 54 members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake for heresy at Paris, on orders of King Philip IV of France (Philip the Fair). Pope Clement V attempts to take control of the situation by issuing a papal bull, to assert the Church’s authority over the matter and demands Philip turn over the Templars and their property to ecclesiastical officials, who will then try the Templars for charges themselves.  Battle of Bannockburn: […]

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Events 1320s – Tenochtitlan Aztec City

 Events 1320: Władysław I the Elbow-high is crowned King of Poland which leads to its later unification. 1325: Forced out of previous habitations, the Mexica found the city of Tenochtitlan. Literature  Italian author Dante Alighieri, known for The Inferno, dies of malaria at Ravenna after having undertaken a diplomatic mission in the Republic of Venice. Religion Canonization of Thomas Aquinas: In Italy, a second inquiry begins at Fossanova, as three commissioners (Pandulpho de Sabbello; Petrus Ferri, Bishop of Anagni; and Andreas, Bishop of Terracina) take testimony from over 100 witnesses until November 27

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Events 1390s -Jacob Senleches La harpe de melodie

Jacob Senleches – La harpe de melodie  Events 1391: Anti-Jewish pogroms spread throughout Spain and Portugal, and many thousands of Jews are massacred. 1396: The Battle of Nicopolis, in which the Ottoman Empire defeats a large Crusader army of knights and infantry from various Christian kingdoms including Hungary, France, the Holy Roman Empire, Burgundy and Wallachia. The Chinese invent toilet paper for use by their emperors. Music Jacob Senleches – La harpe de melodie

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Events 1360s – Start of Ming Dynasty

1368 Start of Ming Dynasty, China Events  The Chancellor of England for the first time opens Parliament with a speech in English. Under Edward III of England, the Pleading in English Act makes English rather than Law French the official language in law courts.  Alexandrian Crusade: The city of Alexandria in Egypt is sacked by an allied force of Peter I of Cyprus and the knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. 1363: The Battle of Lake Poyang, a naval conflict between Chinese rebel groups led by Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang, takes place from August to October, constituting one of the largest naval battles in history. 1365: The Old Javanese text Nagarakertagama is written. The Den Hoorn brewery is founded at Leuven in […]

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Events 1340s – The Black Death in Europe

1347 – 1351 The Black Death in Europe  Events 1343–1345: In Saint George’s Night Uprising, pagan Estonians launch a last large-scale attempt to rid themselves of the non-indigenous Christian religion. 1345–1346: The French recruit troops and ships in Genoa, Monaco, and Nice. 1346: English forces led by Edward III defeat a French army led by Philip VI of France in The Battle of Crécy, a major point in the Hundred Years’ War which marks the rise of the longbow as a dominant weapon in Western Europe. 1347–1351: The Black Death kills around a third of the population of Europe. 1348: The 6.9-magnitude 1348 Friuli earthquake centered in Northern Italy was felt across Europe. Contemporaries linked the […]

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1353 The Decameron is finished

The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) is considered one of the early humanists. He was the illegitimate son of Boccaccio di Chellino, a merchant from the small town of Certaldo. At first the young Boccaccio apprenticed as a merchant, then he abandoned that career for the study of canon law (official regulations and doctrines of the church). Through his father, who was a financial adviser to King Robert of Anjou, he gained contacts to the cultivated society of the court at Naples. There he mingled with scientists, theologians, scholars, and lawyers. He studied astronomy, mythology, classical literature, French adventure romances, […]

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1375 The Catalan Atlas

The Catalan Atlas is a medieval world map, or mappamundi, created in 1375 that has been described as the most important map of the Middle Ages in the Catalan language, and as “the zenith of medieval map-work”. 

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Lost African cities

Once, Sorotomo was a vast metropolis, a political centre of the Mali empire. Later, the city was abandoned in the wake of a violent attack.  THE LONG-LOST metropolis at the heart of west Africa’s biggest-ever empire has been discovered by a British archaeologist. Investigations 200 miles south of the Sahara have revealed the existence of a vast city, which appears to have had a population of approximately 50,000 people and to have covered an area of 90 hectares. Researchers, led by Professor Kevin MacDonald of University College London’s Institute of Archaeology, believe that the archaeological site known as Sorotomo […]

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1381 The Peasant’s Revolt

Also called Wat Tyler’s Rebellion – first great popular rebellion in English history. Its immediate cause was the imposition of the unpopular poll tax of 1381, which brought to a head the economic discontent that had been growing since the middle of the century. The rebellion drew support from several sources and included well-to-do artisans and villeins as well as the destitute. Probably the main grievance of the agricultural labourers and urban working classes was the Statute of Labourers (1351), which attempted to fix maximum wages during the labour shortage following the Black Death. The uprising was centred in the […]

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