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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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