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| 1327 |
| | | The earliest surviving illustration of a cannon is drawn in this year (in a manuscript now in Oxford) | |
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| 1327 |
| | | Petrarch glimpses Laura in a church in Avignon and falls helplessly in love with her - or so he tells us | |
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| 1327 |
| | | Isabella forces Edward II to renounce the English throne in favour of their 15-year-old son, Edward III | |
|  | The Great Seal of Edward III
National Archives, Kew
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| 1327 |
| | | Edward II, imprisoned by his wife and her lover, dies in Berkeley castle - almost certainly the victim of murder | |
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| 1328 |
| | | When Charles IV dies, for the first time in more than 400 years of the Capetian dynasty there is no son or brother to inherit the French crown | |
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| 1328 |
| | | The English finally accept a treaty, in Edinburgh, declaring that Robert de Bruce is king of a Scotland 'free and divided from the kingdom of England' | |
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| 1328 |
| | | A French cousin, Philip of Valois, is selected to succeed Charles IV - in preference to an English cousin, Edward III | |
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| 1329 |
| | | A friar, who has failed to find Prester John in the east, publishes a book proving that the fabulous king lives in Ethiopia | |
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| 1329 |
| | | On the death of his father, Robert the Bruce, David II becomes king of Scotland | |
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| c. 1330 |
| | | European prosperity falters during the fourteenth century, with a run of bad harvests, a decline in trade and - from 1347 - the Black Death | |
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