1349 CE

An earthquake affects L'Aquila in southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), causing severe damage, and leaving 2,000 dead. The Black Death breaks out in Elbing (Poland). Pope Clement VI publishes a papal bull that condemns the Flagellants.

In the 1340s, the 14th century.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • December 22 – The rise of Alexios III of Trebizond to the throne ends the Trapezuntine Civil Wars.source
  • Flaithbheartach Domnall Carrach Ó Ruairc deposed from kingship of West Bréifne.Irelandsource

Conflict & Security

  • February 14 – Jewish persecutions during the Black Death: Strasbourg massacre – Because they are believed by the residents to be the cause of the Black Death, roughly 2,000 Jews are burned to death.source
  • August 24 – The Black Death breaks out in Elbing (Poland).source
  • November 8 – Ibn Battuta arrives in Fez, Morocco.source

Religion & Belief

  • January 30 – Günther von Schwarzburg is elected Holy Roman Emperorsource
  • June 17 – Charles IV is re-elected as Holy Roman Emperor following the death of his rival Günther.source
  • October 20 – Pope Clement VI publishes a papal bull that condemns the Flagellants.source
  • November 17 – Pope Clement VI annuls the marriage of William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, and Joan of Kent, on the grounds of her prior marriage to Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent.source
  • In the dispute over the Primacy of Ireland, Richard FitzRalph, Archbishop of Armagh, acting on letters of King Edward III of England specifically allowing him to do so, enters Dublin "with the cross erect before him". He is opposed by the prior of Kilmainham on the instructions of Alexander de Bicknor, Archbishop of Dublin, and forced to withdraw to Drogheda.Irelandsource

Health & Medicine

  • The Black Death in England spreads to the north and a ship from England carries it to Askøy and Bjørgvin (modern-day Bergen) in Norway. The disease also breaks out in Mecca and is prevalent in the Île-de-France and the Kingdom of Navarre.source

Crime & Justice

  • February 19 – Jewish persecutions during the Black Death: The entire Jewish community in the remote German village of Saulgau is wiped out.source
  • May – The Black Death ceases in Ireland.source

Climate & Environment

  • January 22 – An earthquake affects L'Aquila in southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), causing severe damage, and leaving 2,000 dead.source
  • March 27 – An earthquake in England strikes Meaux Abbey.source
  • September 9 – 1349 Apennine earthquakes. An earthquake in Rome causes extensive damage, including the collapse of the southern exterior facade of the Colosseum.source

Births

  • September 9 – Duke Albert III of Austria (died 1395)source
  • Friar John, Minister of the Friars Preachers of Ireland (alive 1405)source
  • Venerable Macarius of Yellow Lake and Unzha, semi-legendary Russian saint (died 1444)source

Deaths

  • February 26 – Fatima bint al-Ahmar, Nasrid princess in the Emirate of Granada (born c.1260)source
  • March 21 – Jewish persecutions during the Black Death: Erfurt massacre – The Jewish community of Erfurt (Germany) is murdered and expelled in a pogrom.source
  • April 3 – Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (born 1295)source
  • May 31 – Thomas Wake, English politician (born 1297)source
  • June 14 – Günther von Schwarzburg, German king (born 1304)source
  • June – John Clyn, Irish Franciscan friar and chroniclersource
  • 14 July – Alexander de Bicknor, Archbishop of Dublin.Irelandsource
  • August 26 – Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterburysource
  • September 11 – Bonne of Luxembourg, queen of John II of France (born 1315)source
  • September 30 – Richard Rolle, English religious writer (born c.1300)source
  • October 6 – Joan II of Navarre, daughter of Louis X of France (born 1311)source
  • October 25 – James III of Majorca (born 1315)source
  • November 18 – Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (born 1310)source
  • date unknown – Hamdallah Mustawfi, Persian historian and geographer (born 1281)source
  • probable – William of Ockham, English philosopher (born 1285)source
  • Christmas to March – the Black Death: "The pestilence gathered strength in Kilkenny during Lent ... there was scarcely a house in which only one died."Irelandsource
  • Risdeard mac Giolla Iosa Ruaidh Ó Raghallaigh, Lord of East Breifne.Irelandsource