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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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| 1333 |
| | | The long reign of Casimir III, known as the Great, is a time of prosperity and achievement in Poland | |
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| c. 1336 |
| | | A Hindu empire in southern India is established with its capital at Vijayanagara, meaning 'city of victory' | |
|  | Hampi, ancient capital of Vijayanagara
Photograph Josceline Dimbleby
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| 1337 |
| | | Philip VI of France confiscates Guienne, a fief belonging to Edward III of England - whose response begins the Hundred Years' War | |
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| 1338 |
| | | A new dynasty, the Ashikaga shogunate, comes into power after a member of the family, Takauji, wins a civil war | |
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| 1338 |
| | | The first Dalai Lama dies in 1338 and is discovered to have been reincarnated in a boy born in 1340 | |
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| c. 1340 |
| | | The Doge's Palace, begun in its present form in this year, is only one of the spectacular beauties of Venetian Gothic | |
|  | Doge's Palace
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| 1340 |
| | | Edward III, in Ghent, publicly assumes the title and the arms of the king of France | |
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| c. 1340 |
| | | William of Ockham advocates paring down arguments to their essentials, an approach later known as Ockham's Razor | |
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| 1341 |
| | | A laurel wreath is placed on the brow of Petrarch in Rome, in a renewal of interest in the classical world | |
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| 1345 |
| | | The bridge now known as Ponte Vecchio is constructed in Florence (replacing an older old bridge) | |
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| c. 1345 |
| | | The Aztecs settle on an uninhabited island in a lake, which they name Tenochtitlan — the site of the modern Mexico City | |
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| 1345 |
| | | The great Byzantine altarpiece of St Mark's, the Pala d'Oro, is adjusted to take its present form | |
|  | Pala d'Oro
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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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