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European prosperity falters during the fourteenth century, with a run of bad harvests, a decline in trade and - from 1347 - the Black Death
The earliest recorded incumbent of St Mary's Church in Twickenham, William Browne, is presented.
The long reign of Casimir III, known as the Great, is a time of prosperity and achievement in Poland
A Hindu empire in southern India is established with its capital at Vijayanagara, meaning 'city of victory'
Philip VI of France confiscates Guienne, a fief belonging to Edward III of England - whose response begins the Hundred Years' War
A new dynasty, the Ashikaga shogunate, comes into power after a member of the family, Takauji, wins a civil war
The first Dalai Lama dies in 1338 and is discovered to have been reincarnated in a boy born in 1340
John, a son of the English king Edward III is born in Ghent and so becomes known as John of Gaunt
The Doge's Palace, begun in its present form in this year, is only one of the spectacular beauties of Venetian Gothic
Edward III, in Ghent, publicly assumes the title and the arms of the king of France
William of Ockham advocates paring down arguments to their essentials, an approach later known as Ockham's Razor
A laurel wreath is placed on the brow of Petrarch in Rome, in a renewal of interest in the classical world
The Vicars of St Mary's Church in Hampton are known back to 1342 and the old Church possibly existed from c.1250
The bridge now known as Ponte Vecchio is constructed in Florence (replacing an older old bridge)
The Aztecs settle on an uninhabited island in a lake, which they name Tenochtitlan — the site of the modern Mexico City
The great Byzantine altarpiece of St Mark's, the Pala d'Oro, is adjusted to take its present form
Edward III of England, defaulting on his massive debts, drives the Florentine banking families of Bardi and Peruzzi into bankruptcy
The plague which later becomes known as the Black Death makes its first appearance in China
Charles IV, king of Bohemia, German king and Holy Roman emperor, makes Prague a glittering centre of learning and architecture
The more mobile English force, of longbows and infantry, defeats at Crécy the unwieldy crossbows and heavy cavalry of the French
Udiana Deva, the last Hindu ruler of Kashmir, is murdered by his Muslim prime minister
Edward III establishes a new kind of knighthood with the Order of the Garter, conferred purely as an honour
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
Cola di Rienzo, appointed tribune of the people, enjoys a few months of dictatorial powers in Rome before the citizens tire of him
Turkish tribes, besieging Genoese merchants in Caffa, lob the corpses of plague victims over the town walls and thus spread the Black Death
