date: March 26

text: March 26 – Marie of Luxembourg, queen of France (b. 1304)


section: Deaths

text: March 26 – Marie of Luxembourg, Queen of France, dies of injuries after falling from a carriage while she and King Charles IV are riding from Paris to Avignon. After her fall, she went into labor and gave birth prematurely to a child, who died shortly afterward.

source_section: Events › January – March


date: March 31

text: March 31 – Henry II of Cyprus, king of Jerusalem (b. 1270)

source_section: Deaths


text: March 31 – Hugh IV becomes the new King of Cyprus upon the death of his father, King Henry II. Hugh also inherits Henry's nominal title of "King of Jerusalem".


date: June 13

text: June 13 – King Edward II of England dispatches his envoy, Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke to France in an attempt to negotiate a peaceful end to the Saint-Sardos incident. Stopping at Saint-Riquier 10 days later, Pembroke dies of a heart attack before reaching Paris.

source_section: Events › April – June


date: July 16

text: July 16 – Yohito, former emperor of Japan (b. 1267)


date: September 4

text: September 4 – James III of Majorca ("the Unfortunate") becomes the new King of Majorca, a set of islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain, upon the death of his uncle, King Sancho ("the Peaceful").

source_section: Events › July – September


date: November 1

text: November 1 – John de Halton, English bishop


date: November 3

text: November 3 – Petronilla de Meath, Irish maidservant (b. 1300)


date: November 11

text: November 11 – Henry VII, Count of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg, German nobleman and ruler


date: November 22

text: November 22 – In Italy, Marsilio da Carrara becomes the new Lord of Padua upon the death of his uncle, Jacopo I da Carrara.

source_section: Events › October – December


date: November 25

text: November 25 – John Botetourt, English governor and admiral


text: Ottoman Sultan Osman I dies after a 25-year reign at Bursa. He is the founder of the Ottoman Empire (first known as a Turkmen principality in the northwest of Anatolia). He is succeeded by his 43-year-old son Orhan I as the second ruler (bey), who places his residence at Söğüt in Bilecik Province (approximate date).

source_section: Events › By place › Asia Minor


date: March 13

section: Geopolitics & Diplomacy

text: March 13 – The Treaty of Trausnitz is signed between the Duchy of Austria and the Kingdom of Bavaria. Austria's ruler, Frederick the Fair, is released from Trausnitz Castle, where he has been imprisoned for two and a half years by Ludwig the Bavarian, King of Germany, since his defeat in the Battle of Mühldorf in 1322.


date: August 11

text: August 11 – At Valladolid, Alfonso XI reaches the age of 14 and is proclaimed by the Cortes to have full power as the King of Castile.


date: October 10

text: October 10 – King Edward II calls for representatives of the three estates (including the knights representative) to meet at Westminster for a session of the English Parliament, beginning on November 18 to discuss the matter of the failure of his wife, Queen Isabella, to return from France.


date: March 9

section: Conflict & Security

text: March 9 – Queen Isabella of England, wife of King Edward II of England and sister of King Charles IV of France, departs from England on a mission to Paris to mediate an end to the war between the two kingdoms. She is directed to return to England by midsummer.


date: May 24

text: May 24 – In Germany, Henry II, Lord of Mecklenburg cedes the territories of Prignitz and the Uckermark to the Margraviate of Brandenburg in an unfavorable peace treaty signed at Daber (modern-day Dobra Nowogardzka in Poland).


date: June 22

text: June 22 – Ismail, Sultan of Granada, begins the siege of Martos in the Spanish Kingdom of Castile, but loses control of his troops, who pillage the city after two weeks.


date: August 7

text: August 7 – Battle of Varey: The 16-year-old Guigues VIII, local ruler (dauphin) of Vienne, defeats the Savoyard forces at Saint-Jean-le-Vieux. During the battle, a Burgundian cavalry charge is repulsed and is forced back to the Savoyard camp. With the assistance of the Varey garrison, Guigues pillages the camp and takes John I, Count of Auxerre, prisoner.


date: November 15

text: November 15 – War of the Bucket: At the Battle of Zappolino in northern Italy, the 7,000-man Ghibelline forces backed by the Holy Roman Empire defeat the much stronger (32,000-men) Guelph army under sent by Pope John XXII near Bologna. After the battle, Ghibelline influence in the region is consolidated.


date: November 21

text: November 21 – Yuri III Danilovich, Grand Duke of Moscow, is assassinated by Dmitry of Tver, Grand Duke of Vladimir, nicknamed "the Terrible Eyes". Yuri's younger brother, Iván I Danilovich Kalitá, the Grand Duke of Vladimir, inherits Yuri's throne and relocates the spiritual capital of the Russian people to Moscow by directing the Metropolitan Peter to move his episcopal see from Kiev. The decision of both Ivan and Peter to relocate gradually makes Moscow the political center of Russia.


section: Exploration & Expansion

text: March 13 – (approximate date) – Tenochtitlan, the predecessor of Mexico City, is founded by the Mexica, led by Tenoch, on an island in Lake Texcoco.


date: May 10

section: Religion & Belief

text: May 10 – Pope John XXII issues a papal bull to King Robert of Naples and to Charles, Duke of Calabria demanding the imprisonment of the Fraticelli in Naples and their leader, Fra Enrico da Ceva. The demand, and several subsequent admonitions, is ignored by Robert and Charles.


date: May 20

text: May 20 – Led by Michael of Cesena, the Michaelites, a French branch of the Spiritual Franciscans who have been accused of heresy within the Roman Catholic Church in a disagreement over the issue of a vow of poverty, assemble at Lyon in France and agree to make peace with the Church and to make no further disrespectful references to Pope John XXII.


date: September 12

text: September 12 – Edward II is persuaded not to go to France by Hugh Despenser the Elder, his chief adviser. He decides to send his 12-year-old son, Prince Edward of Windsor, to go to Paris and to pay homage instead. Before the young Edward departs, he is bestowed with the title of Count of Ponthieu. Charles IV gives his consent for him to receive the English Aquitaine.


date: October 18

text: October 18 – King Edward II sends a letter to Pope John XXII (who is in Avignon in France), expressing deep concern for Queen Isabella's failure to return home from Paris.


date: February 1

section: Crime & Justice

text: February 1 – Sultan Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq is murdered after a 5-year reign at Kara-Manikpur. He is succeeded by his son Muhammad bin Tughluq (Juna Khan) as ruler of the Delhi Sultanate.


date: April 20

text: April 20 – Elizabeth de Comyn, daughter of the late Guardian of Scotland, John Comyn III of Badenoch, is forced to sign away her title to her properties in England at Painswick and at Goodrich Castle to Hugh Despenser the Elder after being kidnapped in 1324 and imprisoned in England at Pirbright.


date: July 8

text: July 8 – (26 Rajab 725 AH) Sultan Ismail I is murdered in his palace, the Alhambra, after an 9-year reign. The attackers are captured and beheaded. Ismail is succeeded by his 10-year-old son Muhammad IV, who becomes the new ruler of the Emirate of Granada. Vizier Muhammad ibn al-Mahruq, serving as wakil (or regent), quarrels for control of the young sultan's government.


date: May 5

section: Culture & Society

text: May 5 – The Istrian Demarcation, setting out the boundaries of disputed Italian territories in the Adriatic Sea peninsula of Istria (part of the modern-day Republic of Croatia), and confirms the agreement between the independent Italian states of Aquileia, Gorizia, and the Venetian Republic. The document is published in three languages (Latin, German and Croatian).


date: September 21

text: September 21 – Isabella of France conspires with the exiled Roger Mortimer to have Edward II deposed. To build up diplomatic and military support, Isabella has Edward of Windsor engaged to the 12-year-old Philippa of Hainault. She is the daughter of Count William the Good of Hainaut, who is married to Joan of Valois, granddaughter of the late King Philip III of France.


date: September 24

text: September 24 – Edward, Prince of Wales pays homage to King Charles IV of France on behalf of his father, King Edward II of England.


date: December 1

text: December 1 – King Edward II of England makes one final attempt to save his marriage to Queen Isabella, and sends her a letter ordering her to return from France to England immediately, writing that "Oftentimes have we informed you, both before an after the homage, of our great desire to have you with us, and of our grief of heart at your long absence," and adds that he is aware of her affair with Roger Mortimer and that "ceasing from all pretenses, delays and excuses, you come to us with all the haste you can." She declines to come back.


date: May 12

section: Births

text: May 12 – Rupert II, German nobleman and count palatine (d. 1398)

source_section: Births


date: September 29

text: September 29 – Francesco I da Carrara, Italian nobleman (d. 1393)


text: Gidō Shūshin, Japanese monk and spiritual teacher (d. 1388)


text: Ch'oe Mu-sŏn, Korean scientist and military leader (d. 1395)


text: Henry of Langenstein, German theologian and writer (d. 1397)


text: Johanna I, Italian queen-regnant (House of Anjou) (d. 1382)


text: Gerhard VI, German nobleman (House of Jülich) (d. 1360)


text: Yongsan, Korean nobleman, prince and heir apparent (d. 1341)


text: Antonio Pavoni, Italian priest and inquisitor-general (d. 1374)


text: Zain al-Din al-'Iraqi, Persian scholar, jurist and writer (d. 1403)


text: Abraham Cresques, Majorcan Jewish cartographer (d. 1387)


text: Robert Hales, English Lord Treasurer and admiral (d. 1381)


text: Inês de Castro, Galician noblewoman and mistress (d. 1355)


text: Eleanor of Sicily, Sicilian noblewoman and queen (d. 1375)


date: January 7

text: January 7 – Afonso IV becomes the new King of Portugal upon the death of his father, King Denis I.


date: March 12

text: March 12 – At the age of 11, Valdemar III becomes the new ruler of the Duchy of Schleswig upon the death of his father, Eric II, Duke of Schleswig.


text: March 12 – Eric II, German nobleman (House of Estridsen) (b. 1290)


date: March 20

text: March 20 – William Ferrers, English nobleman and knight (b. 1272)


date: April 3

text: April 3 – Nizamuddin Auliya, Indian scholar (b. 1238)


date: April 5

text: April 5 – Ralph de Monthermer, English nobleman and peerage


date: June 5

text: June 5 – Eberhard the Illustrious, Count of Württemberg, German nobleman (b. 1265)


text: June 5 – At Stuttgart in Germany, Ulrich III becomes the new Count of Württemberg upon the death of his father, Eberhard I.


date: July 6

text: July 6 – John Salmon, English cleric, Lord Chancellor and bishop


text: July 8 – Ismail I, Nasrid ruler of the Emirate of Granada (b. 1279)


text: September 29 – Keizan Jōkin, Japanese Zen Master (b. 1268)


date: November 21

text: November 21 – Yuri III Danilovich, Russian Grand Prince (b. 1281)


date: December 16

text: December 16 – Charles, Count of Valois, uncle of King Charles IV of France and heir apparent to the throne, dies at the age of 55 at Nogent-le-Roi, leaving his son Philip as heir to the throne.


date: December 28

text: December 28 – Al-Allama al-Hilli, Persian theologian (b. 1250)


date: April 19

text: April 19 – The Peace of Arques, brokered by King Charles IV of France, ends the Flemish Revolt, but the treaty is not supported by rebel districts in Flanders.


date: June 3

text: June 3 – The Treaty of Novgorod, a 10-year armistice, ends decades of border skirmishes between Norway and Novgorod in the far-northern region of Finnmark.


date: July 15

text: July 15 – The Scottish Parliament meets at Cambuskenneth and votes to restore 10-year-old Robert Stewart, grandson of Robert the Bruce, to the line of succession to the throne of Scotland. Robert is granted lands in Argyll, Roxburghshire and the Lothians, and will eventually become King of Scotland in 1371.


date: October 27

text: October 27 – Declaring that they are acting in the name of King Edward and giving as the reason that he is away in France, Queen Isabella and Crown Prince Edward issue a writ summoning the English Parliament to assemble on December 14 at Westminster.


date: December 3

text: December 3 – Queen Isabella and Crown Prince Edward, claiming to act on behalf of King Edward II, issue a new writ postponing the opening of the English Parliament from December 14 to January 7. The new parliament will approve the replacement of King Edward II by the Crown Prince as "Keeper of the Realm".


date: March 11

text: March 11 – The Raid on Brandenburg by King Władysław of Poland is completed with the looting and destruction by Lithuanian troops of the cities of Berlin and Frankfurt (Oder) and the area between them, and the capture of 6,000 German prisoners of war.


date: April 6

text: April 6 – Siege of Bursa: Ottoman forces (some 10,000 men) led by Sultan Orhan I capture the Byzantine city of Bursa. Orhan makes Bursa the first official Ottoman capital.


date: May 4

text: May 4 – King Christopher II of Denmark, forced to flee during an uprising, promises to give the Danish Principality of Rügen to John III of Werle and Henry II, Lord of Mecklenburg, leading to the First War of the Rügen Succession.


date: September 24

text: September 24 – Invasion of England: Isabella of France and her supporters (including Roger Mortimer) land at the River Orwell in Suffolk. Their aim is to remove King Edward II from his throne and place Prince Edward there as the new ruler. Meanwhile, residing at the Tower of London, Edward tries to raise support in the capital, but instead, there is anarchy in London and mobs killing Edward's officials (including his treasurer, Walter de Stapledon).


date: October 18

text: October 18 – Isabella of France begins the Siege of Bristol, which is defended by Hugh Despenser the Elder.


date: October 26

text: October 26 – After eight days, the castle of Bristol is captured by Queen Isabella, and Hugh Despenser the elder is taken captive. With Bristol secured, Isabella moves her base of operations to Hereford, near the Welsh border. There, she orders Henry of Lancaster to locate and arrest Edward II.


text: Autumn – Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg allies himself with the Danish magnates. In response, the Hanseatic towns of Demmin, Stralsund, Greifswald and Anklam join the alliance.

source_section: Events › By place › Europe


text: Summer – German forces led by Henry II, Lord of Mecklenburg occupy the western territories belonging to the Principality of Rügen. The towns of Barth and Grimmen surrender after a short siege.


date: March 25

text: March 25 – At Dagnum (a former city in modern-day Albania), a peace treaty is signed between Venetian merchants of Ragusa and King Stefan Dečanski of Serbia.


text: Early Spring – Ibn Battuta, Moroccan scholar and explorer, arrives after a journey of over 3,500 km (2,200 miles) at the port of Alexandria, at this time part of the Bahri Mamluk Empire. On July 16 he departs from Cairo on a trip through Palestine on the way to Damascus, where he arrives on August 9.

source_section: Events › By place › Middle East


date: February 10

text: February 10 – The Raid on Brandenburg begins as Polish-Lithuanian forces led by Władysław I Łokietek, "the elbow-high", King of Poland, and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania under Gediminas, raid the territories of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (within the Holy Roman Empire), with the sanction of Pope John XXII. Władysław regards the Neumark (East Brandenburg) as Polish territory.


date: November 16

text: November 16 – King Edward II of England is captured at Neath Abbey in Wales and brought to England, where he is imprisoned at Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire.


date: February 14

section: Health & Medicine

text: February 14 – Queen Ingeborg, the regent and de facto ruler of Sweden, is stripped from all political authority. Due to having many debts (known as the Scania affair), she gives up several fiefs.


date: September 15

text: September 15 – Dmitry, Grand Prince of Tver, is executed for the murder of Grand Duke Yuri of Moscow at Sarai on orders of Özbeg Khan, ruler of the Golden Horde that controls much of modern-day Asian Russia.


text: October 27 – The day after his capture at Bristol, Hugh Despenser the Elder, the chief adviser to King Edward II of England, is dressed in his armor and hanged in public. Afterwards, Hugh's body is dismembered, with his head presented to Queen Isabella to show to others among Edward's allies.


date: January 21

text: January 21 – The foundation of Oriel College (as King's College), the University of Oxford's fifth oldest (still surviving) college, is confirmed by royal charter.


date: February 20

text: February 20 – The foundation of Clare College (as University Hall), the University of Cambridge's second oldest (still surviving) college, by royal charter.


date: June 6

text: June 6 – In Denmark, the Reichsrat votes to remove King Christopher II from office and to replace him with 11-year-old Valdemar V, Duke of Schleswig. Valdemar's uncle, Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg, becomes the regent for King Valdemar.


date: August 27

text: August 27 – Queen Isabella of France draws up a marriage contract between the 13-year-old Prince Edward of England (the future Edward III) and Philippa of Hainault, guaranteeing that the wedding will take place within two years (which it does).


date: February 3

text: February 3 – Robert Clavering, English official and politician (d. 1394)


date: March 30

text: March 30 – Ivan II of Moscow, Russian Grand Prince (d. 1359)


date: May 1

text: May 1 – Rinchinbal Khan (Ningzong), Mongol emperor (d. 1332)


date: May 8

text: May 8 – Joan I, queen of France (House of Auvergne) (d. 1360)


date: June 29

text: June 29 – Murad I, Turkish ruler of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1389)


date: August 16

text: August 16 – Amaury IV de Craon, French nobleman and knight (d. 1373)


date: September 5

text: September 5 – Beatrice of Sicily, Sicilian noblewoman (d. 1365)


text: September 15 – Yolande of Dampierre, French noblewoman (d. 1395)


date: November 1

text: November 1 – Wartislaw V, Duke of Pomerania, German nobleman and co-ruler (d. 1390)


date: November 5

text: November 5 – Nawrahta Minye (Anawrahta II of Sagaing), Burmese prince and ruler (d. 1349)


text: Tang He (Dingchen), Chinese rebel leader (d. 1395)


text: Imagawa Sadayo, Japanese poet and governor (d. 1420)


text: Isaac ben Sheshet, Spanish Talmudic authority (d. 1408)


text: Simeon Uroš, Serbian nobleman and pretender (d. 1370)


date: January 18

text: January 18 – Robert FitzWalter, English nobleman and knight (b. 1247)


date: February 28

text: February 28 – Frederick the Fair becomes the sole Duke of Austria upon the death of his younger brother, Leopold I of the House of Habsburg.


date: March 26

text: March 26 – Alessandra Giliani, Italian anatomist and scientist (b. 1307)


date: April 6

text: April 6 – Pandolfo I Malatesta, Italian nobleman and knight (condottiero)


date: May 6

text: May 6 – Bernard of Świdnica, Polish nobleman, knight and ruler (House of Piast)


date: July 14

text: July 14 – Wartislaw IV, Duke of Pomerania, makes an alliance with Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg, who has taken control of Denmark after the overthrow of King Christopher II. Wartislaw becomes ill and dies 18 days later.


date: July 29

text: July 29 – Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster, Irish nobleman (House of Burgh) (b. 1259)


date: August 3

text: August 3 – Roger Mortimer, English nobleman, knight and judge (b. 1256)


date: September 15

text: September 15 – William FitzJohn, Irish prelate, archbishop and Lord Chancellor


date: October 14

text: October 14 – Walter de Stapledon, English nobleman and bishop (b. 1261)


text: October 14 – Richard de Stapledon, English nobleman, knight and judge


date: October 31

text: October 31 – Juan de Castilla y Haro ("Juan the One-Eyed"), Spanish nobleman (b. 1293)


date: November 17

text: November 17 – Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman and knight (b. 1285)


date: November 24

text: November 24 – Hugh Despenser the Younger, English knight (b. 1286)


date: January 20

text: January 20 – Imprisoned in Warwickshire, King Edward II of England is forced to abdicate by his estranged wife, Queen Isabella, and her lover, Roger Mortimer.


date: February 13

text: February 13 – King Charles I of Hungary and King John of Bohemia sign an alliance agreement at Nagyszombat in Bohemia (modern Trnava in the Republic of Slovakia), to proceed against the Austrian Habsburgs who occupy Pressburg (modern Bratislava, capital of Slovakia).


date: March 31

text: March 31 – King Charles IV of France makes a peace treaty with England. He returns Aquitaine and Gascony to English rule. Charles receives 50,000 livres. The territories of Limousin, Quercy and Périgord county come under control of France.


date: January 13

text: January 13 – In Spain, Marinid Prince Uthman ibn Abi al-Ula, who started an uprising the year before against the Emirate of Granada and its ruler Muhammad IV, arrives at Almería and proceeds to enlist Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Abi Sa'id, Muhammad IV's uncle, to be installed as the new Emir, with the name al-Qa'im bi-amr Allah.


date: April 4

text: April 4 – In the civil war in Granada, Prince Uthman ibn Abi al-Ula captures the fortress of Laujar de Andarax (in the modern-day Almeria province of Spain).


date: October 27

text: October 27 – Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen consort of Scotland as the wife of King Robert the Bruce, is fatally injured when she falls from her horse while traveling with her entourage to Cullen Castle in Banffshire.


date: December 22

text: December 22 – Ala ud-Din Timurtash, the Viceroy for Anatolia within the Ilkhanate of the Middle East, and the brother of Demasq Kaja, learns that the Ilkhan Abu Sa'id had arranged for the execution of Demasq. Fearing for his own safety, Timurtash decides to leave and eventually flees to Egypt, but will be executed there on August 12, 1328.


date: February 1

text: February 1 – The coronation of King Edward III as ruler of England takes place at Westminster Abbey with the approval of the English Parliament. Walter Reynolds, Archbishop of Canterbury, places the crown upon the new King.


date: April 6

text: April 6 (Good Friday) – Francesco Petrarca, Italian scholar and poet, sees a woman he names Laura (possibly Laura de Noves) in the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon, which awakes in him a lasting passion. He writes a series of sonnets and other poems in Italian dedicated to her, which are collected into Il Canzoniere, an influential model for Renaissance culture.


date: October 23

text: October 23 – Pope John XXII condemns Marsilius of Padua's 1324 treatise Defensor pacis (The Defender of Peace). The excommunicated Marsilius flees to Germany and seeks protection at the court of King Louis IV. John also excommunicates Louis and demands that he relinquishes his claim to the imperial crown.


date: December 11

text: December 11 – Simon Mepeham is elected as England's new Archbishop of Canterbury as the candidate of the Earl of Lancaster, leader of the regency council. Mepeham defeats the candidate supported by Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer, and soon works with King Edward III to end Mortimer's power in England.


date: December 18

text: December 18 – Pope John XXII appoints 10 new Roman Catholic cardinals, the most during his papacy, including Jacques Fournier, who will succeed John as Pope Benedict XII in 1334.


date: December 20

text: December 20 – The late King Edward II of England is buried in the Gloucester Cathedral in Gloucestershire, three months after his death.


section: Technology & Infrastructure

text: In China, the Grand Canal, which runs from Beijing to Hangzhou over a distance of 1,800 km, is completed.

source_section: Events › By topic › Trade and Transport


section: Science & Discovery

text: Richard of Wallingford, English cleric and abbot, describes the construction of an astronomical clock in his Tractatus Horologii Astronomici.

source_section: Events › By topic › Literature


date: April 5

text: April 5 – Edward II is moved to Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire. He is kept under the custody of Roger Mortimer's son-in-law, Thomas Berkeley and John Maltravers, who are given £5 a day to look after him. Despite records showing luxury goods being bought for him, Edward is possibly mistreated by his captors.


date: August 25

text: August 25 – Demasq Kaja, Viceroy of Azerbaijan and of Iraq in the Ilkhanate, the Mongol Empire's area of control in the Middle East, is killed in Soltaniyeh after trying to escape arrest on orders of the Ilkhan, Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan. Abu Sa'id had concluded that Demasq's father, Amir Chūpān, was attempting to take over the Ilkhanate.


date: September 21

text: September 21 – Less than a year after his arrest, the former King of England, Edward II, is brutally murdered in Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire.


section: Disasters & Accidents

text: February 13 – In Bavaria, a large fire breaks out in Munich and is not brought under control for two days. One-third of the buildings in the city are destroyed.


date: January 25

text: January 25 – The 14-year-old Crown Prince, Edward, is proclaimed King of England in London, with his mother Isabella serving as his regent.


date: February 8

text: February 8 – At Opava (in the modern-day Czech Republic), the Polish Silesian noble Casimir I, Duke of Cieszyn swears homage to King John of Bohemia, "the Blind". In return, Casimir is granted Oświęcim (Auschwitz) as a fiefdom on February 23.


date: February 19

text: February 19 – Other Silesian nobles follow the example of Casimir of Cieszyn at Opava and swear homage to King John of Bohemia, including the Piast nobles Leszek of Racibórz, Siemowit of Bytom and George of Bytom.


date: June 21

text: June 21 – Queen Ingeborg of Norway marries the Danish nobleman Canute Porse the Elder, but is deposed from political power in Norway.


date: June

text: June – Malatesta Ungaro, Italian condottiero (d. 1372)


date: October 30

text: October 30 – Andrew, Duke of Calabria (d. 1345)


text: Birger Gregersson, Archbishop of Uppsala (d. 1383)


text: Demetrius I Starshy, Prince of Trubczewsk (d. 1399)


text: Elizabeth le Despenser, Baroness Berkeley, English noble (d. 1389)


text: probable – William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, Scottish nobleman (d. 1384)


text: Charles de La Cerda, Franco-Spanish soldier (d. 1354)


text: Baldus de Ubaldis, Italian jurist (d. 1400)


date: January 16

text: January 16 – Nikephoros Choumnos, Byzantine scholar and statesman (b. 1250 or 1255)


date: February 5

text: February 5 (1st waning of Kason 684 ME, Burmese calendar) – In Burma (modern Myanmar), Tarabya I becomes the new King of Sagaing, located in northern Myanmar on the Irrawaddy River with a capital in the city of Sagaing. Tarabya succeeds his brother, upon the death of his brother, King Saw Yun, despite the fact that Saw Yun has an heir, Prince Kyaswa.


date: March 15

text: March 15 – Albert of Schwarzburg, German grand preceptor of the Knights Hospitaller


date: April 9

text: April 9 – Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland (b. 1293)


date: May 28

text: May 28 – Robert Baldock, Lord Privy Seal and Lord Chancellor of England


date: May 29

text: May 29 – Jens Grand, Danish archbishop (b. c. 1260)


date: July 4

text: July 4 – During a banquet given by Galeazzo I Visconti in Milan, an attempt is apparently made to poison the guest of honor, Louis IV, newly crowned as King of Italy. Galeazzo's brother, Stefano Visconti, becomes ill after tasting food and drink intended for Louis and dies suddenly at home. Stefano's brothers Galeazzo, Giovanni, and Luchino, along with his nephew Azzone Visconti, are all imprisoned on orders of the Holy Roman Emperor based on accusations of a fourth brother, Marco Visconti.


text: August 25 – Demasq Kaja, Ilkhanate member of the Chobanid Family


date: September 1

text: September 1 – Foulques de Villaret, French Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller


date: September 26

text: September 26 – Cecco d'Ascoli, Italian encyclopaedist, physician and poet (b. 1257)


date: October 27

text: October 27 – Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert the Bruce


date: November 5

text: November 5 – In Barcelona, Prince Alfonso "the Kind" becomes the new King of Aragon upon the death of his father, King Jaime II, and is enthroned as King Alfonso IV.


date: November

text: November – Chupan, Chobanid prince of the Ilkhanate


date: December 19

text: December 19 – Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy


date: May 1

text: May 1 – Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton: England recognises Scotland as an independent nation, after the Wars of Scottish Independence.

source_section: Events


date: August 23

text: August 23 – Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.


date: January 17

text: January 17 – Louis IV, "the Bavarian", is crowned Holy Roman Emperor at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Because of conflict with the Avignon Papacy, the ceremony is carried out by a senator and three Italian bishops.


date: May 12

text: May 12 – Antipope Nicholas V is consecrated at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome by the bishop of Venice.


date: May 26

text: May 26 – William of Ockham secretly leaves Avignon, under threat from Pope John XXII.


text: Undated – The Augustiner-Bräu is first recorded as the brewery of an Augustinian monastery at Munich.


date: January 24

text: January 24 – Philippa of Hainault marries King Edward III of England a year after his coronation. The marriage produces ten children, the eldest of whom is Edward the Black Prince.


date: April 1

text: April 1 – Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans (d. 1393)


date: May 7

text: May 7 – Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1365)


date: June 25

text: June 25 – William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)


date: September 29

text: September 29 – Joan of Kent, princess of Wales, spouse of Edward the Black Prince (d. 1385)


date: October 9

text: October 9 – King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)


date: October 21

text: October 21 – Hongwu Emperor of China (d. 1398)


date: November 11

text: November 11 – Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (d. 1360)


date: November 25

text: November 25 – Antipope Benedict XIII, born Pedro Martínez de Luna (d. 1423)


text: Emperor Go-Murakami of Japan (d. 1368)


text: Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas ("Archibald the Grim", "Black Archibald"), Scottish magnate and warrior (d. 1400)


date: February 1

text: February 1 – King Charles IV of France (b. 1294)


date: May 29

text: May 29 – King Philip VI of France is crowned, founding the House of Valois, after the death of King Charles IV of France, who has no sons to inherit.


date: August 15

text: August 15 – Yesün Temür, emperor of the Yuan dynasty (b. 1293)


text: August 23 – Nicolaas Zannekin, Flemish peasant leader (in the battle of Cassel)


date: September 26

text: September 26 – Ibn Taymiyyah, Islamic scholar and philosopher of Harran (b. 1263)


date: October 12

text: October 12 (or 13) – Clementia of Hungary, Queen consort of France and Navarre (b. 1293)


date: November 16

text: November 16 – Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shōgun (b. 1276)


text: Meister Eckhart, German theologian (b. 1260)


text: Andronikos Angelos Palaiologos, Byzantine nobleman and governor (b. ca. 1282)


date: June 7

text: June 7 – David II becomes King of Scots at age 5; he will rule Scotland for nearly 42 years.

source_section: Events › January–December


date: August 4

text: August 4 – Wittelsbach possessions are divided by the Treaty of Pavia into those of the Bavarian line and those of Palatinate line. Both lines will be reunited in 1777.


text: Aimone of Savoy becomes Count of Savoy.

source_section: Events › Date unknown


date: February 18

text: February 18 – Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia, begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces (possibly in 1332).


date: June 10

text: June 10 – Braganstown massacre, County Louth, Ireland: Over 160 are killed.


date: June 11

text: June 11 – Battle of Maltepe (Pelekanon): Ottoman Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire.


text: Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia defeats Stephen II, Ban of Bosnia.


text: February 1 – King John of Bohemia (of the Teutonic Order) captures Medvėgalis, an important fortress of the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and baptizes 6,000 of its defenders.


date: April

text: April – Antipope Nicholas V is excommunicated by Pope John XXII.


text: Michael of Cesena is deposed as General of the Franciscans.


section: Economy & Finance

text: Wiesbaden is granted the right of coinage by Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor.


text: Construction begins on the Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Andrew in Frombork, Poland.


date: June 6

text: June 6 – Edward III of England pays homage to Philip VI of France for Aquitaine.


text: September 26 – Anne of Bavaria, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1353)


date: November 22

text: November 22 – Elisabeth of Meissen, Burgravine consort of Nuremberg (d. 1375)


date: November 29

text: November 29 – John I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1340)


text: Hosokawa Yoriyuki, Japanese samurai (d. 1392)


text: Philip II, Prince of Taranto (d. 1374)


text: Prince Lazar of Serbia (d. 1389)


text: Fairuzabadi, Persian Arab lexicographer (d. 1414)


date: January 17

text: January 17 – Saint Roseline, Carthusian nun (b. 1263)


date: March 27

text: March 27 – Pope John XXII issues a bull condemning some teachings of Meister Eckhart (who died last year) as heretical.


date: April 21

text: April 21 – Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282)


date: May 9

text: May 9 – John Drokensford, Bishop of Bath and Wells


date: May 31

text: May 31 – Albertino Mussato, Italian statesman and writer (b. 1261)


text: June 7 – Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)


date: August 30

text: August 30 – Khutughtu Khan, Emperor Mingzong of Yuan, emperor of the Yuan dynasty and the Mongol Empire (b. 1300)


date: October 27

text: October 27 – Mahaut, Countess of Artois (b. 1268)


text: Oshin of Korikos, regent of Armenia (assassinated)


text: Edward, Count of Savoy (b. 1284)


text: random serf in the montenegren province of austria


text: Bar Kokhba Revolt: Sextus Julius Severus, Roman governor of Britain, is sent to Judea (in 136 renamed Syria Palaestina) to quell the revolt. Jewish rebels, led by Simon bar Kokhba and Eleazar, cut off the vital supply lines and Roman garrisons in Palestine. Despite Roman reinforcements from Syria and Egypt, they establish an independent state in Judea.

source_section: Events › By place › Roman Empire


date: January 30

text: January 30 – Didius Julianus, Roman emperor (according to Cassius Dio) (d. 193)


text: Athenagoras of Athens, Greek Christian apologist (d. 190)


text: Cyriacus, bishop of Jerusalem (approximate date)


text: Ivan Alexander becomes the despot of Lovech.


date: July 28

text: July 28 – Battle of Velbazhd: The Bulgarians under Tsar Michael Shishman (who is mortally wounded) are beaten by the Serbs. Bulgaria does not lose any territory to Serbia, but is powerless to stop the Serbian advance towards the predominantly Bulgarian-populated Macedonia.


date: October 19

text: October 19 – King Edward III of England starts his personal reign, arresting his regent Roger Mortimer, and having him executed.


date: November 9

text: November 9–12 – Battle of Posada: The Wallachians, under Basarab I, defeat the Hungarians, though heavily outnumbered, thus making a firm statement towards the independence of Wallachia.


date: May

text: May – Odoric of Pordenone narrates the story of his 10 years of missionary travel to China, from which he is newly returned, to Friar William of Solagna in Padua, who records it as the Relatio.


date: December 6

section: Climate & Environment

text: December 6 – The British Isles are hit by a great storm, creating large areas of sand dunes on Anglesey.


text: Vilnius, Lithuania receives its coat-of-arms, granted to the city in the seventh year of its existence.


date: June 15

text: June 15 – Edward the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (d. 1376)


date: July 4

text: July 4 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shōgun (d. 1367)


date: October 25

text: October 25 – Louis II of Flanders (d. 1384)


text: Altichiero, Italian painter (d. 1390)


text: Euphemia of Sicily, princess regent of Sicily (d. 1359)


text: John Gower, English poet (d. 1410)


text: Frans Ackerman, Flemish statesman (d. 1387)


text: Nicolas Flamel, French scribe and manuscript-seller, reputed alchemist (d. 1417)


date: January 13

text: January 13 – Duke Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)


date: January 21

text: January 21 – Joan II, Countess of Burgundy, queen dowager of France (b. 1291)


date: March 19

text: March 19 – Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, son of Edward I and brother of Edward II (executed by Roger Mortimer) (b. 1301)


date: May 3

text: May 3 – Alexios II Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1282)


date: August 25

text: August 25 – On or about this date, Sir James Douglas, Scottish guerilla leader during the Wars of Scottish Independence (b. circa 1286)


date: September 28

text: September 28 – Elizabeth of Bohemia, queen consort of Bohemia (b. 1292)


date: November 29

text: November 29 – Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (b. 1287)


text: Maximus Planudes, Byzantine grammarian and theologian


text: Pietro Cavallini, Italian artist (b. 1259)


text: Uthman ibn Abi al-Ula, Marinid prince and shaykh al-ghuzat of the Emirate of Granada


text: Immanuel the Roman, Italian scholar and poet (b. 1270)


text: Guillaume Durand, French clergyman


text: c. July 31 – Tsar Michael Shishman of Bulgaria (b. 1280s?)


date: September 27

text: September 27 – Battle of Płowce: The German Teutonic Knights and the Poles battle to a draw.

source_section: Events › September–December


text: The Genkō War begins in Japan.


text: The Sieges of Cividale del Friuli and Alicante begin.


date: September 8

text: September 8 – Stefan Dušan declares himself king of Serbia.


text: The first recorded outbreak of the Black Death occurs, in the Chinese province of Hebei.


date: February 16

text: February 16 – Coluccio Salutati, Florentine political leader (d. 1406)


date: April 14

text: April 14 – Jeanne-Marie de Maille, French Roman Catholic saint (b. 1414)


date: April 30

text: April 30 – Gaston III of Foix (d. 1391)


date: October 4

text: October 4 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (d. 1382)


text: Blanche d'Évreux, queen consort of France (d. 1398)


text: Michael Palaiologos, Byzantine prince


text: Hamidüddin Aksarayî, Ottoman teacher of Islam (d. 1412)


text: probable – Salvestro de' Medici, provost of Florence (d. 1388)


date: January 14

text: January 14 – Odoric of Pordenone, Italian missionary friar and explorer (b. c. 1280)


date: April 17

text: April 17 – Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford, English noble and soldier (b. c. 1257)


date: May 12

text: May 12 – Engelbert of Admont, abbot in Styria


date: October 27

text: October 27 – Abulfeda, Kurdish Syrian historian and geographer (b. 1273)


date: November 11

text: November 11 – King Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia (b. c. 1285)


date: December 26

text: December 26 – Philip I, Prince of Taranto, titular Latin Emperor (b. 1278)


date: December 30

text: December 30 – Bernard Gui, French inquisitor (b. 1261 or 1262)


text: date unknown – Matilda of Hainaut, Princess of Achaea (b. 1293)


date: September

text: September – Edward Balliol crowns himself King of Scotland.


date: November 7

text: November 7 – Lucerne joins the Swiss Confederation with Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden.


date: February 18

text: February 18 – Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia, begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces (possibly in 1329).


date: August 10

text: August 10–11 – Battle of Dupplin Moor: Edward Balliol rebels, and the English defeat the loyalists of David II in Scotland.


date: December 16

text: December 16 – Battle of Annan: The loyalists of David II defeat Edward Balliol in Scotland.


text: The city of Marosvásárhely (in Transylvania, today Târgu Mureș in Romania) is first documented in the papal registry, under the name Novum Forum Siculorum.


date: May 27

text: May 27 – Ibn Khaldun, North African Arab historian (d. 1406)


date: June 8

text: June 8 – Cangrande II della Scala, Lord of Verona (d. 1359)


date: June 16

text: June 16 – Isabella de Coucy, English princess, daughter of King Edward III of England (d. 1379 or 1382)


date: June 18

text: June 18 – John V Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1391)


date: October 10

text: October 10 – King Charles II of Navarre (d. 1387)


text: Xu Da, Chinese military leader (d. 1385)


text: Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint (d. 1381)


text: William Langland, English poet (d. c.1400)


text: Pero López de Ayala, Spanish soldier (d. 1407)


text: Hanna van Recklinghausen, Dutch banker


text: Andrea Vanni, Italian painter (d. c. 1414)


text: Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster (d. 1363)


date: January 8

text: January 8 – Andronikos III Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond


date: February 13

text: February 13 – Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1259)


date: February

text: February – Henry Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey (b. c. 1265)


date: March 13

text: March 13 – Theodore Metochites, Byzantine Empire statesman, author, man of learning, and patron of the arts (b. 1270)


text: June 16 – Adam de Brome, founder of Oriel College, Oxford


date: July 20

text: July 20 – Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland


date: August 2

text: August 2 – King Christopher II of Denmark (b. 1276)


date: August 11

text: August 11 – at the Battle of Dupplin Moor


date: September 4

text: September 4 – García de Ayerbe, Spanish bishop and crusade theorist


text: Jayaatu Khan Tugh Temür, Emperor Wenzong of the Yuan dynasty (b. 1304)


text: Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor Ningzong of the Yuan dynasty (b. 1326)


text: approximate date – Mary of Woodstock, English princess (b. 1279)


text: Robert II Keith, Marischal of Scotland


date: May 18

text: May 18 – Siege of Kamakura in Japan: Forces loyal to Emperor Go-Daigo, led by Nitta Yoshisada, enter and destroy the city, breaking the power of the Hōjō clan over the Kamakura shogunate. The Kamakura period ends, and the Kenmu Restoration under Go-Daigo begins.


text: June 8 – King Edward III of England seizes the Isle of Man from Scottish control.


date: June 19

text: June 19 – Ashikaga Takauji leads his army into Kyoto as part of the Kenmu Restoration.


date: July 7

text: July 7 – The reign of Emperor Kōgon of Japan, first of the Northern Court (Ashikaga) Pretenders, ends.


date: July 19

text: July 19 – Wars of Scottish Independence - Battle of Halidon Hill: Edward III of England decisively defeats Sir Archibald Douglas. Berwick-upon-Tweed returns to English control.


text: Jan IV of Dražic, Bishop of Prague, founds a friary and builds a stone bridge at Roudnice in Bohemia.


text: The Kapellbrücke wooden bridge over the Reuss in Lucerne (Switzerland) is built; by the 20th century it will be the world's oldest truss bridge and Europe's oldest covered bridge.


date: June 6

text: June 6 – William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, is murdered as part of the Burke Civil War in Ireland.


date: November 4

text: November 4 – The River Arno floods, causing massive damage in Florence, as recorded by Giovanni Villani.


text: A famine (lasting until 1337) breaks out in China, killing six million.


text: A great famine takes place in Southern Europe. It is known to historians of Catalonia as Lo mal any primer, "the First Bad Year" (equivalent to the Great Famine of 1315–1317 further north), an early notice of the catastrophes of the second half of this century.


text: The Venetian historian Marino Sanudo Torsello publishes his History of the realm of Romania (Istoria del regno di Romania), one of the most important sources on the history of Latin Greece.


text: Carlo Zeno, Venetian admiral (d. 1418)


text: Kan'ami, Japanese Noh actor and writer (d. 1384)


text: Peter Parler, German architect (d. 1399)


text: Helena Kantakouzene, empress consort of Byzantium (d. 1396)


date: February 7

text: February 7 – Nikko, Japanese priest, founder of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism (b. 1246)


date: March 2

text: March 2 – King Wladyslaw I of Poland (b. 1261)


date: March

text: March – William of Alnwick, Franciscan friar and theologian


text: June 6 – William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster (b. 1312)


date: June 18

text: June 18 – Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1312)


text: July 19 (at the Battle of Halidon Hill):


date: July 28

text: July 28 – Guy VIII of Viennois, Dauphin of Vienne (b. 1309)


date: November 9

text: November 9 – Empress Saionji Kishi of Japan (b. c. 1303)


text: Nichimoku, Japanese priest, the 3rd high priest of Taisekiji temple and Nichiren Shoshu (b. 1260)


text: Prince Morikuni, 9th and last shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate in Japan. (b. 1301)


text: Kenneth de Moravia, 4th Earl of Sutherland


text: Autumn – Battle of Adramyttion: A Christian league defeats the fleet of the Turkish Beylik of Karasi.


date: July 18

text: July 18 – The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundational stone laid for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral (the tower was designed by the artist Giotto).


date: December 30

text: December 30 – Pope Benedict XII succeeds Pope John XXII, as the 197th pope.


date: January 4

text: January 4 – Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy (d. 1383)


date: January 13

text: January 13 – King Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)


date: May 25

text: May 25 – Emperor Sukō (d. 1398)


date: August 30

text: August 30 – King Peter of Castile (d. 1369)


text: Margaret Graham, Countess of Menteith, Scottish noble (d. c. 1380)


text: Hayam Wuruk, Javanese ruler (d. 1389)


text: King James I of Cyprus (d. 1398)


date: January 17

text: January 17 – John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond (b. c. 1266)


date: December 4

text: December 4 – Pope John XXII (b. 1249)


text: date unknown – Sheikh Safi-ad-din Ardabili of Persia (b. 1251)


text: Isabella de Vesci, politically active French noblewoman (b. 1260s)


text: Congress of Visegrád: The monarchs of Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland form an anti-Habsburg alliance.


text: Slavery is abolished in Sweden.


date: July 30

text: July 30 – Battle of Boroughmuir: John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray defeats Guy, Count of Namur in Scotland.


date: November 30

text: November 30 – Battle of Culblean: David Bruce defeats Edward Balliol in Scotland.


text: Georgians under King George V (the Brilliant) finally defeat the Mongolians in a decisive battle. After that George V returns the Grave of Christ from the Muslims.


date: October 22

text: October 22 – Ex-emperor Hanazono (95th emperor of japan) becomes a Zen priest.


text: Construction begins on the papal palace in Avignon.


text: The excommunication of Frederick III of Sicily and the interdict placed on Sicily end.


text: Pope Benedict XII begins to reform the Cistercians.


text: Aabenraa is chartered as a city.


date: May 2

text: May 2 – Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia.


text: The School of Arts in Zaragoza, Spain is founded (later known as the University of Zaragoza in the 16th Century).


date: May 24

text: May 24 – Margaret of Bohemia, Queen of Hungary (d. 1349)


date: October 27

text: October 27 – Yi Seong-gye, Korean founder of the Joseon Dynasty


text: Milica, wife of Prince Lazar of Serbia (d. 1405)


text: Gülçiçek Hatun, first wife of Ottoman Sultan Murad I


text: Marko Mrnjavčević, de jure Serbian king


text: Tiphaine Raguenel, Breton astrologer (d. 1373)


date: April 2

text: April 2 – Duke Henry of Carinthia


date: August 12

text: August 12 – Prince Moriyoshi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1308)


date: August 23

text: August 23 – Heilwige Bloemardinne, Dutch Christian mystic (b. c. 1265)


date: October 31

text: October 31 – Marie of Évreux, French noblewoman (b. 1303)


date: December 1

text: December 1 – Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan, Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate (b. 1305)


text: December 1 – Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan dies, a victim of the plague that ravages the Ilkhanate. This is an early outbreak of the Black Death. His death without a clear heir causes the Ilkhanate to disintegrate.


text: Carinthia and Carniola come under Habsburg rule. After the death of Duke Henry, the duchies are bestowed by Louis the Bavarian on the Dukes of Austria. From that time onwards, what is today Slovenia is ruled jointly with Austria until 1918.


date: February 25

text: February 25 – The Kenmu Restoration ends and the Muromachi period begins in Japan; start of the Nanboku-chō period.


text: February 25 – Rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights, 4,000 defenders of Pilėnai, Lithuania commit mass suicide.


date: May 19

text: May 19 – The governor of Baghdad, Oirat 'Ali Padsah, defeats Arpa Ke'un near Maraga, contributing to the disintegration of the Ilkhanate.


date: July 4

text: July 4 – Battle of Minatogawa: Ashikaga Takauji defeats Japanese Imperial forces, under Kusunoki Masashige and Nitta Yoshisada.


date: April 18

text: April 18 (unconfirmed) – Brothers Harihara and Bukka Raya found the Vijayanagara Empire on the southern part of the Deccan Plateau in South India.


date: July 21

text: July 21–22 – Second War of Scottish Independence: Aberdeen, Scotland is burned by the English.


date: April 26

text: April 26 – The Ascent of Mount Ventoux is made by the Italian poet Petrarch: he claims to be the first since classical antiquity to climb a mountain for the view.


date: September 20

text: September 20 – The reign of Emperor Kōmyō, second of the Ashikaga Pretenders to the Northern Court of Japan, begins.


date: April 9

text: April 9 – Timur, founder of the Timurid Empire (d. 1405)


date: April 23

text: April 23 – Olivier V de Clisson, "the butcher", Breton knight and constable of France (d. 1407)


date: July 25

text: July 25 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1404)


text: Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev (died 1406)


text: Stefan Uroš V, Emperor of the Serbs (d. 1371)


text: Gao Qi, Chinese poet (d. 1374)


date: January 20

text: January 20 – John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford (b. 1306)


text: February 25 – Margiris, Duke of Samogitia


date: March 20

text: March 20 – Maurice Csák, Hungarian Dominican friar (b. c. 1270)


date: May 17

text: May 17 – Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)


text: July 4 – Elizabeth of Portugal, queen consort and saint (b. 1271)


date: September 5

text: September 5 – Charles d'Évreux (b. 1305)


text: Guillaume Pierre Godin, French Dominican philosopher (b. c. 1260)


text: Bernard VIII, Count of Comminges (b. c. 1285)


text: Richard of Wallingford, English monk and mathematician (b. 1292)


text: Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din, Ilkhanate politician


text: Cino da Pistoia, Italian poet (b. 1270)


text: Turgut Alp, Kayı and Ottoman soldier and commander in-chief (b. 1200) at the age of 136.


text: Ramon Muntaner, Catalan soldier and writer (b. 1270)


date: March 16

text: March 16 – Edward the Black Prince establishes the Duchy of Cornwall, becoming the first English Duke.


date: May 24

text: May 24 – Philip VI of France confiscates Gascony from English control.


date: August

text: August – Second War of Scottish Independence: English forces relieve Stirling Castle, ending Edward III of England's last campaign in Scotland.


date: October

text: October – Hundred Years' War: Edward III of England formally rejects Philip VI's claim to the French throne, initiating hostilities between France and England.


date: November

text: November – Battle of Cadzand: English troops raid the Flemish island of Cadzand.


text: The Despotate of Epirus is conquered by the Byzantine Empire.


text: The Scaligeri Family loses control of Padua; Alberto della Scala, patron of the music of the Trecento, moves to Verona.


text: Siege of Nicomedia: After its foundation by Osman I in about 1299, the Ottoman Empire expanded across Bithynia in north-west Anatolia by capturing territory from the Byzantine Empire.


text: The Sofia Psalter is produced in Bulgaria.


text: Bisham Priory is founded in England.


text: Petrarch, "father" of Renaissance humanism, first visits Rome to wander its mysterious ruins, with an eye for aesthetics as well as for history, exciting a renewed interest in Classical civilisation.


text: The famine in China, which had lasted since 1332 and killed 6,000,000, comes to an end.


date: February 25

text: February 25 – Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg, Czech Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1383)


text: Louis II, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1410)


text: Jean Froissart, historian and courtier from Hainaut (d. 1405)


text: Chŏng Mong-ju, Goryeo diplomat and poet (d. 1392)


text: Robert III of Scotland, second monarch from the House of Stewart to rule Scotland (d. 1406)


text: Bianca of Savoy, lady consort of Milan (d. 1387)


date: January 8

text: January 8 – Giotto, Italian painter (b. 1267)


date: June 7

text: June 7 – William I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1286)


date: June 15

text: June 15 – Angelo da Clareno, Italian Franciscan and leader of a group of Fraticelli (b. 1247)


date: June 25

text: June 25 – Frederick III of Sicily (b. 1272)


date: June 30

text: June 30 – Eleanor de Clare, politically active English noble (b. 1290)


text: William Frangipani, Latin Archbishop of Patras


text: Musa I of Mali, ruler of the Malian Empire (b. c.1280)


text: Prince Narinaga, Japanese Shōgun (b. 1326, d. either 1337 or 1344, the sources are contradictory)


text: Changshi, khan of the Chagatai Khanate


text: Hundred Years' War: Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor appoints Edward III of England as a vicar-general of the Holy Roman Empire. Louis supports Edward's claim to the French throne, under the terms of the Treaty of Koblenz.


date: October 5

text: October 5 – Hundred Years' War, English Channel naval campaign: Southampton is destroyed.


text: Ashikaga Takauji is granted the title of shōgun by the emperor of Japan, starting the Ashikaga Shogunate.


text: Philip VI of France besieges Guienne in Southwest France, and his navy attacks Portsmouth, England.


text: Nicomedia is captured by the Ottoman Empire.


text: A Black Death plague strain originates near Lake Issyk-Kul in modern Kyrgyzstan, according to Syriac tombstone inscriptions and genetic material from exhumed bodies.


date: January 13

text: January 13 – Chŏng Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (d. 1392)


date: January 21

text: January 21 – Charles V of France (d. 1380)


date: February 3

text: February 3 – Joanna of Bourbon, queen consort of France (d. 1378)


date: March 23

text: March 23 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan, Northern Court emperor during a conflict between two imperial lines (d. 1374)


text: October 5 – Alexios III of Trebizond (d. 1390)


date: November 29

text: November 29 – Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence (d. 1368)


text: Niccolò II d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (d. 1388)


text: Muhammad V of Granada, Sultan (d. 1391)


text: George Dunbar, 10th Earl of March (d. 1420)


text: Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros (d. 1383)


date: April 8

text: April 8 – Stephen Gravesend, Bishop of London


date: April 24

text: April 24 – Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat (b. c. 1270)


date: May 5

text: May 5 – Prince Tsunenaga, son of the Japanese Emperor (b. 1324)


date: May 23

text: May 23 – Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel, English noble (b. 1287)


date: May

text: May – John Wishart, Scottish bishop


date: June 10

text: June 10 – Kitabatake Akiie, Japanese governor (b. 1318; d. in battle)


date: July

text: July – Muhammad Khan, Persian monarch


date: August 4

text: August 4 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk (b. 1300)


date: August 17

text: August 17 – Nitta Yoshisada, Japanese samurai (b. 1301; d. in battle)


date: August 22

text: August 22 – William II, Duke of Athens (b. 1312)


date: December 21

text: December 21 – Thomas Hemenhale, Bishop of Worcester


text: Marino Sanuto the Elder, Venetian statesman and geographer (b. c. 1260)


text: probable – Prince Narinaga, Japanese shōgun (b. 1325)


date: September 18

text: September 18 – Emperor Go-Murakami accedes to the throne of Japan.


date: June

text: June – Battle of Laupen: The Canton of Bern defeats the forces of Fribourg.


text: Shams-ud-Din Shah Mir, having defeated Kota Rani, Hindu queen regnant of Kashmir, in battle at Jayapur (modern Sumbal), asks her to marry him, but she commits suicide rather than do so; thus he takes over sole rule of Kashmir, beginning the Muslim Shah Mir Dynasty.


text: The Moscow Kremlin is first referred to as a kremlin.


text: All streets in the city of Florence are paved, the first European city in post-Roman times where this has happened.


date: September 24

text: September 24 (or 28) – Simone Boccanegra is elected, as the first Doge of Genoa.


date: July 23

text: July 23 – Louis I, Duke of Anjou (d. 1384)


date: November 1

text: November 1 – Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1365)


text: Erik Magnusson (Erik XII), king of parts of Sweden 1356–1359 (d. 1359)


text: Juana Manuel of Castile, queen consort of Castile (d. 1381)


text: Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani, Persian Arab encyclopaedist (d. 1414)


text: Duke John IV of Brittany (d. 1399)


text: Pope Alexander V, Antipope (d. 1410)


text: Frederick, Duke of Bavaria-Landshut (d. 1393)


date: February 17

text: February 17 – Otto, Duke of Austria (b. 1301)


date: May 26

text: May 26 – Aldona Ona, Queen of Poland (b. c. 1309)


date: August 16

text: August 16 – Azzone Visconti, founder of the state of Milan (b. 1302)


date: August 25

text: August 25 – Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham (b. 1260)


date: September 1

text: September 1 – Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1305)


date: September 19

text: September 19 – Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (b. 1288)


date: October 29

text: October 29 – Grand Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (b. 1301)


text: Ilseong becomes ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla.

source_section: Events › By place › Asia


text: The Romans retake Jerusalem. The largely-destroyed city is renamed Aelia Capitolina.


text: Arrianus, Roman governor of Cappadocia, repulses an attack of the Alani, a nomadic tribe from southeastern Russia.


text: Summer – Sextus Julius Severus, Roman governor of Judea, begins a campaign against the Jewish rebel strongholds in the mountains.


text: A law improving the lot of free workers is passed in Rome.


text: Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, Italy, is completed.

source_section: Events › By topic › Architecture


text: Marcus Macrinius Avitus Catonius Vindex, Roman politician (d. 176)


text: Dong Zhuo, Chinese general and warlord (d. 192)


text: Jima of Silla (or Jima Isageum), Korean ruler of Silla

source_section: Deaths


date: January 26

text: January 26 – King Edward III of England declares himself King of France at Ghent, Flanders.


date: June 7

text: June 7 – Rotterdam is officially declared a city.


date: April

text: April–July – Trapezuntine Civil War: An abortive uprising occurs against Irene Palaiologina of Trebizond, the first of a number of coups, revolts, and succession disputes.


date: June 24

text: June 24 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys – The English fleet, under the command of Edward III of England, battles the French fleet, under that of Admiral Hugues Quiéret and treasurer Nicolas Béhuchet, assisted by Genoese mercenary galleys under Egidio Bocanegra, on the Low Countries coast. The French fleet is virtually destroyed, and both of its commanders are killed.


date: July 26

text: July 26 – Hundred Years' War – Battle of Saint-Omer: The French defeat the English.


date: September 25

text: September 25 – Hundred Years' War: The temporary Truce of Espléchin is signed between England and France.


date: October 30

text: October 30 – Battle of Río Salado in Spain: The kings of Castile and Portugal defeat the Nasrid ruler of Granada and his Moroccan allies.


date: March 6

text: March 6 – Bohemian Crusade: The Church authorizes a military expedition against heretics.


date: April 8

text: April 8 – Marinid galleys, under the command of Muhammad ibn Ali al-Azafi, rout the Castellan fleet, off the coast of Algeciras.


text: Europe has about 74 million inhabitants.


text: An epidemic in northern Italy is recorded by Augustine of Trent, in his Epistola astrologica.


text: June 24 – Valdemar IV of Denmark, son of deceased King Christopher II, is elected to the throne, following 8 years of interregnum.


text: The Monarchy of Japan reaches its 2,000 year anniversary (according to traditional starting dates).


date: March 5

text: March 5 – Cansignorio della Scala, Lord of Verona (d. 1375)


text: March 6 – John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399)


date: August

text: August – Haakon VI, king of Norway 1355–1380 and of Sweden 1362–1364 (d. 1380)


date: October

text: October – Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (d. 1384)


date: November 30

text: November 30 – John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (d. 1416)


text: John of Nepomuk, saint of Bohemia (d. 1393)


text: Narayana Pandit, Indian mathematician (d. 1400)


text: Margaret Drummond, queen consort of Scotland (d. 1375)


text: Philip van Artevelde, Flemish patriot (d. 1382)


text: Enguerrand VII, Lord of Coucy (d. 1397)


date: March 31

text: March 31 – Ivan I of Moscow (b. 1288)


date: April 5

text: April 5 – William Melton, English archbishop


date: April 6

text: April 6 – Emperor Basil Megas Komnenos of Trebizond


date: April 7

text: April 7 – Bolesław Jerzy II of Mazovia (b. 1308)


date: December 2

text: December 2 – Geoffrey le Scrope, Chief Justice of King Edward III of England


date: December 4

text: December 4 – Henry Burghersh, English bishop and chancellor (b. 1292)


date: December 20

text: December 20 – John I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1329)


text: date unknown – Simonida, queen consort of Serbia (b. 1294)


text: date unknown – Friedrich von Pernstein, Archbishop of Riga


text: The sultan of Delhi Muhammad bin Tughluq chooses Ibn Battuta to lead a diplomatic mission to Yuan Dynasty China.


text: Approximate date – Magnus Erikssons landslag (the Country Law of Magnus IV of Sweden) is promulgated.


date: September

text: September–October – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 (between John VI Kantakouzenos and the regency for the infant John V Palaiologos) breaks out.


text: Chinese poet Zhang Xian writes the Iron Cannon Affair, about the destructive use of gunpowder and the cannon.


text: Tbilisi becomes a capital of European Christian Cathedra, after the city of Smirna. George V (the Brilliant) returns Jerusalem and the Grave of Christ from the Muslims.


text: Saluzzo is sacked by Manfred V of Saluzzo.


text: The Breton War of Succession begins, over the control of the Duchy of Brittany.


text: The Danish king Valdemar IV Atterdag sells southern Halland for 8000 mark to king Magnus Eriksson of Sweden in order to finance the reunification of Denmark.


text: April 8 – Petrarch is crowned poet laureate in Rome, the first man since antiquity to be given this honor.


text: Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, expels her husband John Henry of Bohemia, to whom she had been married as a child. She subsequently marries Louis of Bavaria without having been divorced, which results in the excommunication of the couple.


text: Saint Bridget of Sweden and her husband Ulf Gudmarsson went on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.


text: Casimir III of Poland builds a masonry castle in Lublin, and encircles the city with defensive walls.


date: January 1

text: January 1 – An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) affects Crimea (disputed event).


text: A great flood in the river Periyar in modern-day southern India leads to the river changing its course, the closing of Muziris, the opening up of Cochin (Kochi) harbour, submersion of some islands, and birth of some new islands.


date: January 18

text: January 18 – The Queen's College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, is founded.


date: June 5

text: June 5 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of King Edward III of England (d. 1402)


date: September 1

text: September 1 – Frederick the Simple, King of Sicily (d. 1377)


date: November 10

text: November 10 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408)


text: Qu You, Chinese novelist (d. 1427)


text: Bonne of Bourbon, Countess regent of Savoy (d. 1402)


text: Hermann II, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1413)


text: Louis, Duke of Durazzo (d. 1376)


date: January 22

text: January 22 – Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)


date: March 2

text: March 2 or October 3 – Martha of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (b. 1277)


date: April 30

text: April 30 – Duke John III of Brittany (b. 1286)


date: June 15

text: June 15 – Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1297)


date: June 19

text: June 19 – Juliana Falconieri, Italian saint (b. 1270)


date: June

text: June – Al-Nasir Muhammad, Sultan of Egypt (b. 1295)


date: August 9

text: August 9 – Eleanor of Anjou, queen consort of Sicily (b. 1289)


date: August 28

text: August 28 – King Leo IV of Armenia (murdered) (b. 1309)


text: December 4 – Janisław, Archbishop of Gniezno


date: December

text: December – Gediminas, Duke of Lithuania


text: Petrus Filipsson, Archbishop of Uppsala


text: Bartholomew II Ghisi, Lord of Tenos and Mykonos, Triarch of Negroponte


text: probable – Richard Folville, English outlaw and parson (resisting arrest)


text: Uzbeg Khan, Khan of the Golden Horde (b. 1282)


date: January 21

text: January 21–June 27 – An-Nasir Ahmad, Sultan of Egypt, rules prior to being deposed by his half-brother As-Salih Ismail.


date: July 16

text: July 16 – Louis I becomes king of Hungary.


date: September 4

text: September 4 – John III of Trebizond (John III Comnenus) becomes emperor of Trebizond.


text: Guy de Lusignan becomes Constantine II, King of Armenia (Gosdantin, Կոստանդին Բ).


text: Kitzbühel becomes part of Tyrol.


date: July 18

text: July 18 – Battle of Zava: Mu'izz al-Din Husayn defeats the Sarbadars.


text: Late May–late June – War of the Breton Succession: Siege of Hennebont – Forces of Charles, Duke of Brittany, conduct an unsuccessful siege of the fortified port of Hennebont in Brittany, commanded by Joan of Flanders, Countess of Montfort.


text: Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 – The Zealots seize power in Thessalonica, expelling its aristocrats and declaring themselves in favour of the regency.


date: May 7

text: May 7 – Pope Clement VI succeeds Pope Benedict XII, as the 198th Pope.


date: August 15

text: August 15 – Louis "the Child", age 4, succeeds his father, Peter II, as king of Sicily and duke of Athens; he is crowned on September 15 in Palermo Cathedral.


text: The Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch is transferred to Damascus, under Ignatius II.


date: July 22

text: July 22 – St. Mary Magdalene's flood is the worst such event on record for central Europe.


date: January 17

text: January 17 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404)


date: April 6

text: April 6 – Infanta Maria, Marchioness of Tortosa (d. after 1363)


date: November 8

text: November 8 – Julian of Norwich, English mystic (approximate date; d. 1413)


text: Avignon Pope Clement VII (d. 1394)


text: Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (d. 1373)


text: Levon V Lusignan of Armenia (d. 1393)


text: John Trevisa, English translator (d. 1402)


date: March 31

text: March 31 – Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, Italian Augustinian friar


text: July 16 – King Charles I of Hungary


text: September 4 – Anna Anachoutlou, Empress of Trebizond


date: November 29

text: November 29 – Michael of Cesena, Italian Franciscan leader (b. 1270)


text: Al-Jaldaki, Persian physician and alchemist


text: Peter Paludanus, French bishop and theologian (b. c. 1275)


text: probable – Marsilius of Padua, Italian scholar (b. 1270)


text: August 15 – Magnus IV of Sweden abdicates from the throne of Norway, in favor of his son Haakon VI of Norway. However, Haakon is still a minor, allowing Magnus to remain de facto ruler.


date: April 23

text: April 23 – The St. George's Night Uprising begins in Estonia.


date: May 4

text: May 4 – St. George's Night Uprising: The "Four Estonian kings" are murdered, at the negotiations with the Livonian Order.


date: January 14

text: January 14 – Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the last bishop of Prague and, subsequently, the first Archbishop of Prague.


date: January 27

text: January 27 – Pope Clement VI issues his bull Unigenitus, defining the doctrine of "The Treasury of Merits" or "The Treasury of the Church" as the basis for the issuance of indulgences by the Catholic Church.


date: August 31

text: August 31 – A naval league is formed between the Pope, the Republic of Venice, the Knights Hospitaller and the Kingdom of Cyprus, to prepare the Smyrniote Crusades.


date: November 25

text: November 25 – A tsunami, caused by an earthquake, devastates the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places.


date: December 19

text: December 19 – William I, Margrave of Meissen (d. 1407)


text: Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (d. 1403)


text: Constance of Aragon, queen consort of Sicily (d. 1363)


text: Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, Scottish ruler (d. 1405)


text: Paolo Alboino della Scala, lord of Verona (d. 1375)


text: Emperor Chōkei of Japan (d. 1394)


text: Nang Keo Phimpha, queen of Lan Xang (d. 1438)


text: Tommaso Mocenigo, doge of Venice (d. 1423)


text: Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet (approximate date) (d. 1400)


date: January 20

text: January 20 – Robert of Naples (b. 1276)


date: May 29

text: May 29 – Francesco I Manfredi, lord of Faenza


date: June 22

text: June 22 – Aimone, Count of Savoy (b. 1291)


date: June 23

text: June 23 – Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi, Italian cardinal (b. c. 1270)


date: September 16

text: September 16 – Philip III of Navarre (b. 1306)


date: December 15

text: December 15 – Hasan Kucek, Chobanid prince (b. c. 1319)


text: Sir Ulick Burke, Irish nobleman


text: Veera Ballala III, ruler of the Hoysala Empire (b. 1291)


text: Anne of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria (b. 1318)


text: Newaya Krestos succeeds his father Amda Seyon I as Emperor of Ethiopia


date: March 26

text: March 26 – Reconquista: The Siege of Algeciras (1342–44), one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder is used, ends with the Muslim city of Algeciras surrendering and being incorporated into the Kingdom of Castile.


date: April 17

text: April 17 – Constantine II, King of Armenia, is killed in an uprising and succeeded by a distant cousin, Constantine III.


text: April 23 – The St. George's Night Uprising: The Livonian Order hangs Vesse, the rebel Estonian Elder of Saaremaa Island.


date: May 13

text: May 13 – Battle of Pallene: A Christian fleet defeats a Turkish fleet at Pallene, Chalcidice.


text: King Peter IV of Aragon defeats and deposes his cousin, James III of Majorca, thereby absorbing the Balearic Kingdom of Majorca into the Crown of Aragon.


date: October 24

text: October 24 – Smyrniote Crusade: A Christian fleet succeeds in taking the port city of Smyrna from the Aydinid Turks.


text: The Compagnia dei Bardi in Florence goes bankrupt, along with the Peruzzi Bank and the Acciaiuoli Bank.


text: A large public dial clock is installed in the tower of the Palazzo Capitaniato, Padua, commissioned by Prince Ubertino I da Carrara and supervised by Jacopo Dondi dell'Orologio.


text: King Edward III of England introduces three new gold coins, the florin, leopard, and helm. Unfortunately, the amount of gold in the coins does not match their value of 6 shillings, 3 shillings, and 1 shilling and sixpence, so they have to be withdrawn and mostly melted down, by August of this year.


date: December 6

text: December 6 – Five-year-old Erik Magnusson, the eldest son of King Magnus IV of Sweden, is appointed heir to the Swedish throne, even though Sweden is an elective monarchy at this time.


text: Bablake School is founded in Coventry, England by the dowager Queen Isabella.


date: February 9

text: February 9 – Meinhard III, Count of Tyrol (d. 1363)


date: September 18

text: September 18 – Marie Valois, French princess, daughter of King John II of France (d. 1404)


date: October 10

text: October 10 – Mary Plantagenet, duchess consort of Brittany, daughter of King Edward III of England (d. 1362)


text: Beatrix of Bavaria, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1359)


text: John I, Count of La Marche (d. 1393)


text: Parameswara, Malay Srivijayan prince (d. 1424)


text: Azzo X d'Este, Italian condottiero (d. 1415)


date: January 4

text: January 4 – Robert de Lisle, 1st Baron Lisle, English peer (b. 1288)


date: January 11

text: January 11 – Thomas Charlton, Bishop of Hereford, Lord High Treasurer of England, Lord Privy Seal, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland


date: January 30

text: January 30 – William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury (b. 1301)


text: April 17 – Constantine II, King of Armenia (Gosdantin, Կոստանդին Բ)


date: June 29

text: June 29 – Joan of Savoy, duchess consort of Brittany, throne claimant of Savoy (b. 1310)


date: July 11

text: July 11 – Ulrich III, Count of Württemberg (b. c. 1286)


date: July 16

text: July 16 – An-Nasir Ahmad, deposed Bahri Mamluk sultan of Egypt (b. 1316)


text: Wajih ad-Din Mas'ud, leader of the Sarbadars of Sabzewar


text: probable – Simone Martini, Sienese painter (b. 1284)


text: Prince Narinaga, Japanese Shōgun (b. 1326, d. either 1337 or 1344, the sources are contradictory).


text: Gersonides, French rabbi and mathematician (b. 1288)


date: September

text: September – Holland, Hainaut and Zeeland are inherited by Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and remain part of the imperial crown domain until 1347.


date: January 17

text: January 17 – The Turks attack Smyrna.


date: April 22

text: April 22 – Battle of Gamenario: The Lombards defeat the Angevins in the northwest region of present-day Italy, just southeast of Turin.


date: April

text: April – Edward III of England offers "defiance" of Philip VI of France.


date: July 7

text: July 7 – Battle of Peritheorion: the forces of Momchil, autonomous ruler of the Rhodope, are defeated by the Turkish allies of John VI Kantakouzenos.


date: August

text: August – Gascon campaign of 1345 - Battle of Bergerac, Gascony: English troops are victorious over the French.


text: September 18 – Andrew, Duke of Calabria, is assassinated in Naples (d. in Aversa).


date: September 26

text: September 26 – Battle of Warns: The Frisians defeat the forces of Holland under William II, Count of Hainaut, in the midst of the Friso-Hollandic Wars.


date: October 21

text: October 21 – Battle of Auberoche in Gascony: The English defeat the French.


date: November 8

text: November 8 – The English take La Réole in Gascony.


date: December

text: December – The English take Aiguillon in Gascony.


date: May

text: May – The Turks, led by Umur Beg, sail from Asia Minor to the Balkan Peninsula, and raid Bulgarian territory.


date: March 4

text: March 4 – Guy de Chauliac observes the planets Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars conjoined in the sky, under the sign of Aquarius, and a solar eclipse on the same day. This sign is interpreted as foreboding by many, and Chauliac will later blame it for the Black Plague.


date: March 15

text: March 15 – The Miracle of the Host occurs (as commemorated in Amsterdam).


text: "Summer" (undated) – Louis IV's son, Louis VI the Roman, marries Cunigunde, a Lithuanian princess.


date: January 8

text: January 8 – Kadi Burhan al-Din, poet, qadi, and ruler of Sivas (d. 1398)


date: March 25

text: March 25 or 1347 – Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1369)


date: October 31

text: October 31 – King Fernando I of Portugal (d. 1383)


date: December 7

text: December 7 – Thado Minbya, founder of the Kingdom of Ava (d. 1367)


text: Eleanor Maltravers, English noblewoman (d. 1405)


text: King Charles III of Naples, reign 1381–1386 (d. 1386)


text: Helen of Bosnia, queen regnant (d. 1399)


text: John of Nepomuk, Bohemian monk and saint (k. 1393)


text: January 17 – Martino Zaccaria, former Genoese Lord of Chios (killed by Turks at Smyrna)


text: January 17 – Henry of Asti, titular Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (killed by Turks at Smyrna)


date: April 14

text: April 14 – Richard Aungerville (also known as Richard De Bury), English writer and bishop (b. 1287)


date: June 11

text: June 11 – Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire (lynched by political prisoners)


text: July 7 – Momchil, semi-independent brigand ruler in the Rhodope Mountains (killed in battle)


date: July 24

text: July 24 – Jacob van Artevelde, Flemish statesman (b. 1290) (killed by mob)


date: July 28

text: July 28 – Sancia of Majorca, queen regent of Naples (b. c. 1285)


date: September 18

text: September 18 – Andrew, Duke of Calabria, king consort of Naples (b. 1327) (murdered)


date: September 22

text: September 22 – Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1281)


date: September 26

text: September 26 – William II, Count of Hainaut (killed in the Battle of Warns)


date: November 13

text: November 13 – Constance of Peñafiel, queen consort of Pedro I of Portugal (b. 1323)


text: Aedh mac Tairdelbach Ó Conchobair, Irish King of Connacht


text: John Vatatzes, Byzantine general (murdered)


text: John Apokaukos, governor of Thessalonica (executed)


date: April 16

text: April 16 – The Serbian Empire is proclaimed in Skopje by Dusan Silni, occupying much of Southeast Europe.


date: June 20

text: June 20 – The English win a small victory at La Roche-Derrien in Brittany.


date: April 1

text: April 1–August 20 – Siege of Aiguillon: The French fail to take Aiguillon from its English defenders.


date: May

text: May–June – An English invasion fleet assembles at Portsmouth.


date: June 9

text: June 9 – Battle of St Pol de Léon: The English army defeats Charles of Blois in Brittany.


date: June 15

text: June 15 – Genoese forces led by Simone Vignoso land on the Mediterranean island of Chios and capture it from local Greek control within a week, apart from the Castle of Chios, which resists until 12 September.


date: June 24

text: June 24 – The leaders of Ghent, Bruges and Ypres agree to support Edward III.


date: July 11

text: July 11–12 – Edward III and the English army cross the English Channel and begin an invasion of France.


date: July 12

text: July 12–18 – The English raid and burn neighbouring towns and villages in the Cotentin Peninsula.


date: July 26

text: July 26 – Battle of Caen (1346): An English army captures and sacks the French city of Caen.


date: July

text: July – Edward III orders the closing of English ports to stop information from reaching France.


date: August 24

text: August 24 – Battle of Blanchetaque: The English defeat the French.


date: August 26

text: August 26 – Battle of Crécy: The English defeat the French, in the first European battle where gunpowder is used.


date: September 4

text: September 4 – The English begin the siege of Calais.


date: September

text: September–October – Anglo-Gascon offensives overrun large parts of southwest France.


date: October 4

text: October 4 – The English capture and sack the French city of Poitiers.


date: October 17

text: October 17 – Battle of Neville's Cross: The English army defeats the Scots.


date: March 18

text: March 18 – The French prepare to defend the channel coasts.


date: July 3

text: July 3 – The English fleet attempts to sail from Portsmouth to Normandy, but is forced back by contrary winds.


date: August 10

text: August 10 – Jaume Ferrer sets out from Mallorca for the "River of Gold", the Senegal River.


text: Repairs are made in the Hagia Sophia.


text: Spring – A severe Bubonic Plague epidemic begins in the Crimea, marking the first major epidemic of the Black Death.


date: October

text: October–November – Several Mongol towns in the Crimea are cleared of inhabitants by the Black Death.


text: July 11 – Charles IV, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia, is elected King of the Romans.


date: July 20

text: July 20 – Margaret, Countess of Pembroke, English princess, daughter of King Edward III of England (d. 1361)


text: date unknown – Eustache Deschamps, French poet (d. 1406)


date: February 10

text: February 10 – Blessed Clare of Rimini (b. 1282)


date: March 28

text: March 28 – Venturino of Bergamo, Dominican preacher (b. 1304)


text: August 26 (killed in the Battle of Crécy):


date: August

text: August – Muhammad Aytimur, leader of the Sarbadars of Sabzewar (alternative date is September)


text: October – Raghnall Mac Ruaidhrí, Scottish magnate


date: November 14

text: November 14 – Ostasio I da Polenta, Lord of Ravenna (assassinated)


date: November 27

text: November 27 – Saint Gregory of Sinai (b. c. 1260)


text: Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320)


text: John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray


text: Eustace Folville, English outlaw


text: Hélion de Villeneuve, Grand Master of the Knights of St John


text: Charles II, Count of Alençon (b. 1297)


text: Louis I, Count of Flanders (b. 1304)


text: Maurice de Moravia, Earl of Strathearn


date: February 26

text: February 26 – The Maona of Chios and Phocaea is formed to manage the overseas possessions of the Republic of Genoa.


date: May 20

text: May 20 – Cola di Rienzo, a Roman commoner, declares himself Emperor of Rome, in response to years of baronial power struggles.


date: December 27

text: 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.


date: February 2

text: 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.


date: September 1

text: September 1 – The Black Death reaches the French port city of Marseille.


date: September

text: September – Hundred Years' War: The English win the city of Calais.


text: King Phillip of France meets with the Estates General to ask for funds to further the war effort against the English.


date: January 26

text: 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.


date: August 2

text: August 2 – The Islamic Bahmani Kingdom is established on the Indian subcontinent.


text: Pope Clement VI unites several of Rome's upper-class nobility, who drive Cola di Rienzo out of the city.


date: November 1

text: November 1 – The Black Death spreads to Aix-en-Provence in France.


date: December 25

text: December 25 – The first cases of the plague are recorded in the city of Split, in Croatia.


date: December

text: December – Plague hits the island of Mallorca.


text: Genoese ships fleeing the 1331 Black Death plague in Theodosia stop in Constantinople, contaminating the city.


date: April

text: April – The Knights Hospitaller defeat a Turkish fleet, and sink 100 ships off Imbros.


date: October

text: October – Ships arrive in the Sicilian city of Messina, carrying people afflicted by the Black Death onboard.


date: December 24

text: 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.


text: 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.


date: February 6

text: February 6 – Dorothea of Montau, German hermitess and visionary (d. 1394)


date: February 27

text: February 27 – Alberto d'Este, Lord of Ferrara and Modena (d. 1393)


date: March 25

text: March 25 – Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (d. 1380)


date: March 31

text: March 31 – Frederick III, Duke of Austria, second son of Duke Albert II of Austria (d. 1362)


date: July 28

text: July 28 – Margherita of Durazzo, Queen consort of Charles III of Naples (d. 1412)


date: August 29

text: August 29 – John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English nobleman and soldier (d. 1375)


text: Emperor Go-Kameyama, 99th Emperor of Japan (d. 1424)


text: Elizabeth of Pomerania, fourth and final wife of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1393)


text: Richardis of Schwerin, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1377)


text: Eleanor of Arborea, ruler of Sardinia (d. 1404)


date: February 2

text: February 2 – Thomas Bek, Bishop of Lincoln (b. 1282)


date: April 9

text: April 9 – William of Ockham, English philosopher and Franciscan monk (b. c. 1285)


date: May 30

text: May 30 – John Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Knayth, English peer (b. 1290)


date: June 11

text: June 11 – Bartholomew of San Concordio, Italian Dominican canonist and man of letters (b. 1260)


date: June

text: June – John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English nobleman (b. 1286)


date: October 11

text: October 11 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1282)


date: November 12

text: November 12 – John of Viktring, Austrian chronicler and political advisor in Carinthia (b. 1270–1280)


date: November 15

text: November 15 – James I of Urgell, Prince of Aragon (b. 1321)


date: November

text: November – Richard de Pilmuir, bishop of Dunkeld


text: Shah Jalal, Sufi saint of Bengal (b. 1271)


text: Sang Nila Utama, Founder and First King of Singapura


text: Lamberto II and Pandolfo da Polenta, brothers and lords of Ravenna and Cervia


text: Kokan Shiren, Japanese Rinzai Zen patriarch and celebrated Chinese poet (b. 1278)


text: Peter III of Arborea, Judge of Arborea


date: November 18

text: November 18 – Emperor Kōmyō of Japan abdicates the throne in favour of his son Emperor Sukō, making them the second and third of the Northern Court (Ashikaga Pretenders).


text: The Pskov Republic gains independence from the Novgorod Republic with the treaty of Bolotovo.


text: February 2 – Battle of Strėva: the Teutonic Order secure a victory over the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Sources tell of a blow to Lithuanian leadership, one that the Teutonic Order could not fully make use of due to the Black Death.


date: November 1

text: November 1 – The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro because they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".


text: Estimation: Hangzhou in Mongolian China becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Cairo, capital of Mamluk Egypt.


text: Hundred Years' War (1337–1360): The effects of the Black Death cause a de facto truce to be observed between England and France until 1355.


text: Stefan the Mighty, Emperor of Serbia, conquers Thessaly and Epirus.


date: April 7

text: April 7 – Charles University in Prague, founded the previous year by papal bull, is granted privileges by Charles I, King of Bohemia, in a golden bull.


date: July 6

text: July 6 – A papal bull is issued by Pope Clement VI, protecting Jews against popular aggression during the Black Death pandemic.


date: April 23

text: April 23 – Edward III of England creates the first English order of chivalry, the Most Noble Order of the Garter.


text: By June 24 – The Black Death pandemic reaches England, having probably been brought across the English Channel by fleas on rats aboard a ship from Gascony to the south coast port of Melcombe (modern-day Weymouth, Dorset); by November it will have reached London and by 1350 will have killed one third to a half of its population.


text: The Black Death pandemic spreads to central and western Europe and to Cairo.


date: January 25

text: January 25 – The 6.9-magnitude 1348 Friuli earthquake centered in Northern Italy is felt across Europe. Contemporary minds link the quake with the Black Death, fueling fears that the Biblical Apocalypse has arrived.


date: January

text: January – Gonville Hall, the forerunner of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, England, is founded.


date: April 11

text: April 11 – Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1385)


text: John Fitzalan, 1st Lord Arundel (d. 1379)


text: Alice Perrers, politically active English royal mistress and courtier (d. 1400)


date: February 2

text: February 2 – Narimantas, Christian Lithuanian prince of Pinsk (Battle of Strėva)


date: June 9

text: June 9 – Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (Black Death) (b. 1290)


date: June 13

text: June 13 – Don Juan Manuel, prince of Villena, Spanish writer (b. 1282)


date: July 1

text: July 1 – Joan of England, princess (Black Death) (b. 1333/34)


date: August 20

text: August 20 – Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke, English noble (b. 1319)


date: August 23

text: August 23 – John de Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. c.1275)


date: October 2

text: October 2 – Alice de Lacy, 4th Countess of Lincoln, English noblewoman (b. 1281)


text: Giovanni Villani, chronicler of Florence (Black Death) (b. c. 1276)


text: Laura de Noves, French countess, presumed beloved of Petrarch (b. 1310)


text: Pietro Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (Black Death) (b. 1280)


text: Umur of Aydın, Emir (killed in action) (b. c.1309)


date: December 22

text: December 22 – The rise of Alexios III of Trebizond to the throne ends the Trapezuntine Civil Wars.


date: February 14

text: 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.


date: August 24

text: August 24 – The Black Death breaks out in Elbing (Poland).


date: November 8

text: November 8 – Ibn Battuta arrives in Fez, Morocco.


date: January 30

text: January 30 – Günther von Schwarzburg is elected Holy Roman Emperor


date: October 20

text: October 20 – Pope Clement VI publishes a papal bull that condemns the Flagellants.


date: November 17

text: 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.


text: 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_section: Events › Ongoing


date: February 19

text: February 19 – Jewish persecutions during the Black Death: The entire Jewish community in the remote German village of Saulgau is wiped out.


date: March 21

text: March 21 – Jewish persecutions during the Black Death: Erfurt massacre – The Jewish community of Erfurt (Germany) is murdered and expelled in a pogrom.


date: May 28

text: May 28 – In Breslau, Silesia, 60 Jews are murdered following a disastrous fire which destroys part of the city.


date: May

text: May – The Black Death ceases in Ireland.


date: January 22

text: 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.


date: March 27

text: March 27 – An earthquake in England strikes Meaux Abbey.


date: September 9

text: September 9 – 1349 Apennine earthquakes. An earthquake in Rome causes extensive damage, including the collapse of the southern exterior facade of the Colosseum.


text: September 9 – Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)


text: Friar John, Minister of the Friars Preachers of Ireland (alive 1405)


text: Venerable Macarius of Yellow Lake and Unzha, semi-legendary Russian saint (d. 1444)


date: February 26

text: February 26 – Fatima bint al-Ahmar, Nasrid princess in the Emirate of Granada (b. c.1260)


date: April 3

text: April 3 – Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1295)


date: May 31

text: May 31 – Thomas Wake, English politician (b. 1297)


date: June 14

text: June 14 – Günther von Schwarzburg, German king (b. 1304)


date: June 17

text: June 17 – Charles IV is re-elected as Holy Roman Emperor following the death of his rival Günther.


date: June

text: June – John Clyn, Irish Franciscan friar and chronicler


date: August 26

text: August 26 – Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury


date: September 11

text: September 11 – Bonne of Luxembourg, queen of John II of France (b. 1315)


date: September 30

text: September 30 – Richard Rolle, English religious writer (b. c.1300)


date: October 6

text: October 6 – Joan II of Navarre, daughter of Louis X of France (b. 1311)


date: October 25

text: October 25 – James III of Majorca (b. 1315)


date: November 18

text: November 18 – Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1310)


text: date unknown – Hamdallah Mustawfi, Persian historian and geographer (b. 1281)


text: probable – William of Ockham, English philosopher (b. 1285)


text: Last (4th) year of Yangjia era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.


text: Alans threaten Cappadocia; they are repulsed by Arrian.


text: A Jewish diaspora begins, as Emperor Hadrian bars Jews from Jerusalem, and has survivors of the massacre dispersed across the Roman Empire. Many join Mediterranean ports.


text: Jerusalem is renamed Colonia Aelia Capitolina, in honor of Hadrian. Legio VI Ferrata rebuilds the legionary fortress in the city, and constructs a Roman temple at Golgotha.


text: Marcus (or Mahalia) becomes bishop of Jerusalem (d. 156)

source_section: Events › By topic › Religion


text: An altar to Jupiter is erected, on the site of the Temple in Jerusalem.


text: Canopus, Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Italy, is finished.


text: Sanabares, Indo-Parthian king (d. 160)


text: Judah ha-Nasi, Talmudic scholar (according to Jewish tradition, he was born the same day Rabbi Akiva died a martyr's death) (d. 217)


text: Simon bar Kokhba, Jewish military leader


text: Epictetus, Greek Stoic philosopher (b. AD 50)


text: Rabbi Ishmael, Jewish scholar and lawmaker


text: Rabbi Akiva, Jewish scholar and sage (b. AD 50)


date: November 17

text: November 17 – To pay for the expenses of the revived war with the Republic of Venice, the Republic of Genoa has to subscribe a loan at an interest rate of 10%, from an association of creditors known as the Compera imposita per gerra Venetorum.


date: May 23

text: May 23 (possible date) – Hook and Cod wars in the County of Holland: A number of nobles and progressive cities supporting William V, Count of Holland, in his power struggle with his mother Margaret I, Countess of Holland, found the Cod League and perhaps sign the Cod Alliance Treaty.


date: August 29

text: August 29 – Battle of Winchelsea (Les Espagnols sur Mer) off the south coast of England: An English fleet personally commanded by King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet.


date: September 5

text: September 5 – Hook and Cod wars in the County of Holland: Conservative noblemen found the Hook League and sign the Hook Alliance Treaty.


text: Hayam Wuruk becomes ruler of the Majapahit Empire.


text: Approximate date – Latest likely date for first permanent settlement of New Zealand by Māori people.


date: January 9

text: January 9 – Giovanni II Valente becomes Doge of Genoa.


text: The Punta Lobos massacre is carried out by members of the powerful Chimu Empire in Peru, leaving a residue of 200 murders.


text: The Black Death first appears in Scotland and Sweden.


text: The castle of Rapperswil is largely destroyed by Rudolf Brun, mayor of the city of Zürich.


date: January 23

text: January 23 – Vincent Ferrer, Valencian missionary and saint (d. 1419)


date: April 13

text: April 13 – Margaret III, Countess of Flanders (d. 1405)


date: June 27

text: June 27 – Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1425)


date: October 12

text: October 12 – Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Duke of Muscovy and Vladimir (d. 1389)


date: November 25

text: November 25 – Katherine Swynford, mistress of John of Gaunt (approximate date; d. 1403)


date: December 27

text: December 27 – John I of Aragon (d. 1396)


text: Jehuda Cresques, Catalan cartographer (d. 1427)


text: William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (d. 1399)


text: John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (approximate date; d. 1400)


text: Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić (d. 1415)


text: Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (d. 1397)


text: William Gascoigne, Chief Justice of England (approximate date; d. 1419)


text: John I Stanley of the Isle of Man (approximate date; d. 1414)


text: Madhava of Sangamagrama, Indian mathematician (d. 1425)


date: January 6

text: January 6 – Giovanni I di Murta, second doge of the Republic of Genoa


date: March 26

text: March 26 or 27 March – Alfonso XI of Castile (b. 1311)


date: August 22

text: August 22 – Philip VI of France (b. 1293)


date: November 19

text: November 19 – Raoul II of Brienne, Count of Eu


date: December 26

text: December 26 – Jean de Marigny, French bishop


text: Olaf of Roskilde, last Danish Bishop of Reval


text: supposed – Till Eulenspiegel, German prankster


text: Namdev, Marathi saint and poet (b. 1270)


text: Gayatri Rajapatni, Queen consort of Majapahit


text: Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita (b. c. 1283)


text: Maol Íosa V, Earl of Strathearn, last Gaelic Mormaer of Strathearn


date: February

text: February – Enactments by the Parliament of England:


date: May 1

text: May 1 – Zürich joins the Old Swiss Confederacy.


date: November 26

text: November 26 – Emperor Sukō abdicates as 3rd Emperor of the Northern Court of Japan.


text: King Gongmin ascends the throne in Goryeo.


date: January 14

text: January 14 – Edward III of England institutes the Treason Act 1351, defining treason in English law. It remains unrepealed into the 21st century.


date: March 23

text: March 23 – Firuz Shah Tughlaq succeeds Mohammad Tughlaq as ruler of the Delhi Sultanate. At this time, the Samma dynasty in Sindh (part of modern-day Pakistan) breaks away from the Sultanate.


text: March 26 – War of the Breton Succession: Combat of the Thirty – Thirty chosen knights each, from the Kingdoms of France and England, fight to determine who will rule the Duchy of Brittany; a Franco-Breton victory is assured by the squire Guillaume de Montauban.


date: April 1

text: April 1 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Saintes. – The French are defeated by the English.


date: April 8

text: April 8 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Taillebourg. – The French are defeated by the English.