1347 CE

The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 between John VI Kantakouzenos and the regency for John V Palaiologos ends with Kantakouzenos entering Constantinople. Lord Nicholas de Verdun is buried at Drogheda "with great splendour and solemn rites and with many in the procession to the convent.". The first cases of the plague are recorded in the city of Split, in Croatia.

In the 1340s, the 14th century.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • February 26 – The Maona of Chios and Phocaea is formed to manage the overseas possessions of the Republic of Genoa.source
  • May 20 – Cola di Rienzo, a Roman commoner, declares himself Emperor of Rome, in response to years of baronial power struggles.source
  • December 27 – To fund military operations in Corsica, the Republic of Genoa has to borrow at 20%, from an association of creditors known as the Compera nuova acquisitionis Corsicæ.source

Conflict & Security

  • February 2 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 between John VI Kantakouzenos and the regency for John V Palaiologos ends with Kantakouzenos entering Constantinople.source
  • September 1 – The Black Death reaches the French port city of Marseille.source
  • September – Hundred Years' War: The English win the city of Calais.source
  • King Phillip of France meets with the Estates General to ask for funds to further the war effort against the English.source
  • "Maurice Fitz Thomas, Earl of Kildare, and Lord Fulk de la Freigne, having been called and invited by the King entered France for the Siege of Calais that lasted from the preceding feast of the nativity of blessed Mary right up to the feast of St. Laurence, martyr. And then after many attacks and dreadful and incredible famine the French were compelled to submit they keys of the city and themselves to the mercy of the King of England."Irelandsource

Religion & Belief

  • January 26 – Charles University in Prague is founded by a bull issued by Pope Clement VI, at the request of Charles I, King of Bohemia.source
  • August 2 – The Islamic Bahmani Kingdom is established on the Indian subcontinent.source
  • 2 December – "The confraternity of the Friars Minor of Kilkenny is established for the purpose of erecting a new bell tower and for repairing the church."Irelandsource
  • Pope Clement VI unites several of Rome's upper-class nobility, who drive Cola di Rienzo out of the city.source
  • "The Friars Preachers of Ireland obtained an exemption and permission to eat flesh outside (the priory) from the lord Pope Clement VI, that from the beginning of their religious (life) they did not have before."Irelandsource
  • "The church of Kilronan was re-erected by Farrell O'Duigenan."Irelandsource
  • "On the same day at Kilkenny, Lady Isabella Palmer, who had built the front of the friars choir, was committed to the earth; she had reached a praiseworthy old age and, having lived about 70 years religiously and honourably in her widowhood and in virginity, as it was said and believed, she passed from this life."Irelandsource
  • "Friar Richard, Bishop of Ossory, obtained exemption from the jurisdiction and supremacy of the archbishop of Dublin at the Roman Curia."Irelandsource

Health & Medicine

  • November 1 – The Black Death spreads to Aix-en-Provence in France.source
  • December 25 – The first cases of the plague are recorded in the city of Split, in Croatia.source
  • December – Plague hits the island of Mallorca.source
  • Genoese ships fleeing the 1331 Black Death plague in Theodosia stop in Constantinople, contaminating the city.source

Crime & Justice

  • "William Mac David Burke was slain at Ballintober by Teige Roe Mac Dermot Gall."Irelandsource
  • "Maurice Mac Dermot was slain by John Roe Mac David Burke."Irelandsource
  • Ballymote Castle was taken by the Mac Diarmada, from the O'Connors of Sligo during the course of local struggles in 1347.Irelandsource
  • "Thomas Mac Artan, Lord of Iveagh, in Ulidia, was hanged by the English."Irelandsource
  • "Teige Mac Rannall, Chief of Muintir-Eolais, was taken prisoner by the Clann-Murtough O'Conor."Irelandsource

Disasters & Accidents

  • April – The Knights Hospitaller defeat a Turkish fleet, and sink 100 ships off Imbros.source
  • October – Ships arrive in the Sicilian city of Messina, carrying people afflicted by the Black Death onboard.source
  • 25 December – "At Christmas, Domhnall Ó Ceinnéidigh, son of Phillip, conspired with the Irish of Munster, Connacht, Meath and Leinster, and they burnt and destroyed the town of Nenagh and the whole neighbourhood and all the Ormond castles except the castle of Nenagh." (see also 28 March 1348 and 2 June 1348).Irelandsource

Culture & Society

  • 25 March – Lord Nicholas de Verdun is buried at Drogheda "with great splendour and solemn rites and with many in the procession to the convent."Irelandsource
  • 11 November – "The earldom of Ormond and its regalities was granted to James Butler, the younger, by the King."Irelandsource
  • December 24 – Pembroke College in the University of Cambridge, England, is founded by Marie de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke, as the Hall of Valence Marie.source
  • The agreement reorganizing the Byzantine Empire's affairs is finalized, as Anna of Savoy's son John V Palaiologos marries Kantakouzenos' 15-year-old daughter Helena.source

Births

  • February 6 – Dorothea of Montau, German hermitess and visionary (died 1394)source
  • February 27 – Alberto d'Este, Lord of Ferrara and Modena (died 1393)source
  • March 25 – Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (died 1380)source
  • March 31 – Frederick III, Duke of Austria, second son of Duke Albert II of Austria (died 1362)source
  • July 28 – Margherita of Durazzo, Queen consort of Charles III of Naples (died 1412)source
  • August 29 – John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English nobleman and soldier (died 1375)source
  • Emperor Go-Kameyama, 99th Emperor of Japan (died 1424)source
  • Elizabeth of Pomerania, fourth and final wife of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1393)source
  • Richardis of Schwerin, queen consort of Sweden (died 1377)source
  • Eleanor of Arborea, ruler of Sardinia (died 1404)source
  • Murchadh Ó Madadhain, Chief of Síol Anmchadha, fl.Irelandsource

Deaths

  • February 2 – Thomas Bek, Bishop of Lincoln (born 1282)source
  • April 9 – William of Ockham, English philosopher and Franciscan monk (born c. 1285)source
  • May 30 – John Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Knayth, English peer (born 1290)source
  • June 11 – Bartholomew of San Concordio, Italian Dominican canonist and man of letters (born 1260)source
  • June – John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English nobleman (born 1286)source
  • 10 July – Roger de la Freigne, Seneschal of Kilkenny.Irelandsource
  • October 11 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1282)source
  • November 12 – John of Viktring, Austrian chronicler and political advisor in Carinthia (born 1270–1280)source
  • November 15 – James I of Urgell, Prince of Aragon (born 1321)source
  • November – Richard de Pilmuir, bishop of Dunkeldsource
  • 7 December – Oliver de la Freigne, Seneschal of Kilkenny.Irelandsource
  • Shah Jalal, Sufi saint of Bengal (born 1271)source
  • Blanca de La Cerda y Lara, Spanish noblewoman (born 1317)source
  • Sang Nila Utama, Founder and First King of Singapurasource
  • Adam Murimuth, English ecclesiastic and chronicler (born 1274)source
  • Kokan Shiren, Japanese Rinzai Zen patriarch and celebrated Chinese poet (born 1278)source
  • Siry Ó Curnin, a learned poet and Ollamh of BréifneIrelandsource
  • Aengus Ruadh mac Donnchadh mac Aengus mac Donnchadh Mor Ó Dalaigh, SageIrelandsource