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| 1348 |
| | | The Black Death, making its way through Europe, is described in vivid detail by Boccaccio who sees its devastating effect in Florence | |
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| 1348 |
| | | Massacres of Jews, rumoured to have caused the Black Death by poisoning wells, begin in southern France and spread through much of Europe | |
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| c. 1349 |
| | | Boccaccio begins his Decameron, supposedly the stories told by young Florentine men and women sheltering from the Black Death | |
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| c. 1350 |
| | | The Perpendicular style develops from the Decorated phase in English Gothic architecture | |
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| c. 1350 |
| | | Water power is used in England for the heavy work of fulling cloth, in mills which can be seen as a first step towards the Industrial Revolution | |
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| c. 1350 |
| | | William Tell, a figure of legend, epitomizes the struggle of the Swiss farmers against their feudal overlords, the Habsburgs | |
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| c. 1350 |
| | | Armies of mercenaries, led by condottieri, conduct Italian warfare at an often extortionate rate | |
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| c. 1350 |
| | | Humanism, or the study of classical literature as a living tradition, develops into one of the main strands of the Renaissance | |
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| 1350 |
| | | Boccaccio, visiting Petrarch in Florence, is inspired to devote himself to the pursuit of classical studies | |
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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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| 1367 |
| | | One of four new yeomen of the chamber in Edward III's household is Geoffrey Chaucer | |
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| 1368 |
| | | Chu Yüan-chang drives the Mongols out of Beijing and declares a new dynasty - the Ming (meaning 'brilliant') | |
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| 1368 |
| | | On the fall of the Yuan dynasty, replaced by the Ming, Tibet declares its independence from China | |
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| 1369 |
| | | The marriage of the duke of Burgundy to the heiress of Flanders lays the foundation for the great territorial expansion of Burgundy | |
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| c. 1370 |
| | | The Persian poet Hafiz perfects a form of short poem, the ghazal, dwelling on the pleasures of life with an undercurrent of Sufi mysticism | |
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| 1371 |
| | | On the death of his uncle, David II, Robert Stewart becomes king of Scotland as Robert II | |
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| 1374 |
| | | Kanami and Zeami Motokiyo please the shogun with their theatrical performance, and his patronage begins the tradition of Japan's No theatre | |
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| c. 1375 |
| | | The courtly poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight tells of a mysterious visitor to the round table of King Arthur | |
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| c. 1376 |
| | | John Wycliffe, writing mainly in Oxford, is critical of the contemporary church and can find no basis for the pope's authority | |
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| 1377 |
| | | 10-year-old Richard II follows his grandfather, Edward III, on the English throne | |
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