In the year 1340, King Edward III of England is declared King of France (Jan 26), Rotterdam in the County of Holland is officially declared a city (Jun 7), the kings of Castile and Portugal defeat the Nasrid ruler of Granada and his Moroccan allies (Oct 30), and there are around 74 million Europeans.
1340-0305 Cansignorio della Scala* Lord of Verona - Verona (1375/35)
1340-0306 John of Gaunt* English prince/military leader/statesman - Ghent, Flanders (1399/59)
1340-0415 Angelo Acciaioli* Roman Catholic cardinal - Florence, Republic of Florence (1408/68)
1340-0624 John de Mowbray* nobleman - Epworth, Lincolnshire, England (1368/28)
1340-081x Haakon VI of Norway* (b Håkan Magnusson) King of Norway and Sweden - Sweden(1380/c. 40)
1340-10xx Geert Groote* Dutch Roman Catholic deacon/popular preacher/ founder of the Brethren of the Common Life - Deventer, Bishopric of Utrecht (1384/c.44)
1340-1130 John, Duke of Berry* son of King John II of France/patron of arts - Château de Vincennes, France (1416/75)
In the year 1341, the Queen’s College is founded in Oxford, England (Jan 18), Tbilisi becomes a capital of European Christian Cathedra, Chinese poet Zhang Xian writes the Iron Cannon Affair, about the destructive use of gunpowder and the cannon.
1341-0605 Edmund of Langley* son of King Edward III of England - Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England (1402/61)
1341-0901 Frederick the Simple* King of Sicily - Catania, Kingdom of Sicily (1377/35)
1341-1110 Henry Percy* nobleman/descendant of Henry III of England - Alnwick, Northumberland, England (1408/66)
In the year 1342, Louis I becomes king of Hungary (Jul 19), the worst flood in central Europe, St. Mary Magdalene’s flood, takes place (Jul 22), and Kitzbühel becomes part of Tyrol.
1342-0117 Philip the Bold* Duke of Burgundy/son of King John II of France - Pontoise, Kingdom of France (1404/62)
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In the year 1343, the St. George’s Night Uprising against the Danish and German rulers in Estonia begins (Apr 23), but is brutally put down (May), Magnus IV of Sweden abdicates from the throne of Norway, but his son Haakon being a minor, remains de facto ruler (Aug 15)
1343-xxxx Constance of Aragon* Queen of Sicily - Poblet Monastery, Catalonia (1363/20)
1343-1219 William I* “The one-eyed”,Margrave of Meissen - Dresden (1407/63)
In the year 1344, one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder is used begins, ending with the Muslim city of Algeciras surrendering and being incorporated into the Kingdom of Castile (Mar 26), the Livonian Order hangs the rebel Vesse in Estonia (Apr 23)
1344-0918 Marie of France* Duchess of Bar - Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Kingdom of France (1404/60)
In the year 1345, the Turks attack Smyrna (Jan 17), the French physician and surgeon Guy de Chauliac observes the planets Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars conjoined in the sky, with a solar eclipse on the same day, later blaming it for the Black Plague (Mar 24), Georgia is in the midst of golden age of independence, and the oldest surviving manuscript from the first Swedish law is from this year.
1345-0108 Kadi Burhan al-Din* Islamic judge/Oghuz Turkic vizier to the Eretnid rulers of Anatolia - Kayseri, Anatolia, Ottoman Empire (1398/c. 52)
1345-1030 Ferdinand I* King of Portugal - Coimbra, Kingdom of Portugal (1383/37)
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In the year 1347, the Islamic Bahmani Kingdom is established on the Indian subcontinent (Aug 2), ships arrive in the Sicilian city of Messina, carrying people afflicted by the Black Death onboard (Oct), plague hits the island of Majorca (Dec) and the Black Death continues to spread havoc in Europe.
In the year 1348, the Black Death pandemic reaches England (Jun), and in a few months London (Nov), the Black Death spreads to central and western Europe and to Cairo.
In the year 1349, the Black Death ceases in Ireland (May), the Black Death breaks out in Poland (Aug 24), an earthquake in Rome causes extensive damage, also at the Colosseum. (Sep 9), the Black Death (1346-1353) keeps on raging in Eurasia and North Africa.
Updated 15.1.2022