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As a means of recording the passage of Time , the 14th century was that Century which lasted from 1301 to 1400 .


EVENTS

• The transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age


• Beginning of the Ottoman Empire , early expansion into the Balkans


• The Avignon Papacy transfers the seat of the Popes from Italy to France


• The Great Famine Of 1315-1317 kills millions of people in Europe


• Being forced out of previous locations, the Aztec found the city of Tenochtitlan in 1325


• The Hundred Years' War begins when Edward III of England lays claim to the French throne in 1337 .


• Black Death kills about one third of European population ( 1347 - 1351 )


• The end of Mongol Yuan Dynasty in China and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 )


• The Heresy of Lollardy rises in England


• The Great Schism Of The West begins in 1378 , eventually leading to 3 simultaneous Pope s.


• An account of Buddha 's life, translated earlier into Greek by St John Of Damascus and widely circulated to Christians as the story of Barlaam and Josaphat , became so popular that Buddha (under the name Josaphat) was made a Catholic Saint .


• Singapore emerges for the first time as a fortified city and trading centre of some importance.


• Reunification of Poland under Ladislaus I Of Poland


• Peasants' Revolt in England


• Islam reaches Terengganu , on the Malay Peninsula .


• The Hausa found several City-state s in the south of modern Niger .


• The Mali Empire expands westward and conquers Tekrur .


• The poet Petrarch coins the term Dark Ages to describe the preceding 900 years in Europe , beginning with the Fall Of The Western Roman Empire in 410 through to the renewal embodied in the Renaissance .


• The Scots win the Scottish Wars Of Independence .


• Union Of Krewo between Poland and Lithuania .


• Work begins on the Great Enclosure at Great Zimbabwe , built of uncemented, dressed stone. The city's population is now between 10 000 and 40 000.


• Beginning of the Renaissance in Italy


• Abacus first used in China .

SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE

• Dante Alighieri , Italian poet and writer.


• Ibn Battuta , Arab Muslim traveler.


• Giovanni Boccaccio , Italian author.


• King Robert The Bruce Of Scotland .


• Geoffrey Chaucer , English poet.


• Edward III , King of England .


• Hafez Persian poet.


• Kazimierz III The Great King of Poland .


• Guillaume De Machaut , French composer and poet.


• Don Juan Manuel , Spanish author.


• Mansa Musa Malian king.


• William Of Ockham , English Franciscan friar and philosopher.


• Francesco Petrarch , Italian poet and writer.


• Charles Robert , knight king of Hungary .


• Timur - Central Asian warlord.

INVENTIONS, DISCOVERIES, INTRODUCTIONS

• music of the Ars Nova


• The technique of Knitting


• Foundation of the University Of Cracow

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