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| c. 1350 |
| | | The classic Chinese underglaze blue is perfected in the imperial ceramic factory at Jingdezhen | |
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| 1354 |
| | | Gallipoli is taken by the Ottoman Turks, giving them their first foothold in Europe | |
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| 1356 |
| | | Chu Yüan-chang, leader of a peasant band, makes his headquarters in a town which he renames Nanking - 'southern capital' | |
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| 1356 |
| | | Charles IV establishes a permanent group of seven electors - four hereditary German rulers and the archbishops of Mainz, Cologne and Trier | |
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| 1356 |
| | | The battle of Poitiers ends, on the third day, with victory for the English and the capture of the French king, John II | |
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| 1356 |
| | | Zhu Yuanzhang, a one-time Buddhist novice now leading a major rebellion against the Yuan dynasty, captures Nanjing and makes it his capital | |
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| 1360 |
| | | After four years of captivity in Bordeaux and London, the French king John II is released for a promised ransom of 3 million gold crowns | |
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| 1364 |
| | | A great clock is completed in Padua, regulated mechanically by foliot and escapement | |
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| c. 1365 |
| | | Portable guns are introduced not long after artillery, being mentioned in several European texts of the second half of the fourteenth century | |
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| c. 1367 |
| | | A narrator who calls himself Will, and whose name may be Langland, begins the epic poem of Piers Plowman | |
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