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| 1345 |
| | | The great Byzantine altarpiece of St Mark's, the Pala d'Oro, is adjusted to take its present form | |
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| 1345 |
| | | Edward III of England, defaulting on his massive debts, drives the Florentine banking families of Bardi and Peruzzi into bankruptcy | |
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| 1346 |
| | | The plague which later becomes known as the Black Death makes its first appearance in China | |
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| 1346 |
| | | Charles IV, king of Bohemia, German king and Holy Roman emperor, makes Prague a glittering centre of learning and architecture | |
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| 1346 |
| | | The more mobile English force, of longbows and infantry, defeats at Crécy the unwieldy crossbows and heavy cavalry of the French | |
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| 1346 |
| | | Udiana Deva, the last Hindu ruler of Kashmir, is murdered by his Muslim prime minister | |
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| c. 1347 |
| | | Edward III establishes a new kind of knighthood with the Order of the Garter, conferred purely as an honour | |
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| 1347 |
| | | The English siege of Calais ends when six burghers of the town, with ropes around their necks, offer their lives to save their fellow citizens | |
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| 1347 |
| | | Cola di Rienzo, appointed tribune of the people, enjoys a few months of dictatorial powers in Rome before the citizens tire of him | |
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| 1347 |
| | | Turkish tribes, besieging Genoese merchants in Caffa, lob the corpses of plague victims over the town walls and thus spread the Black Death | |
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