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1252-1334 Shaikh Safi al-Din founded Safavi religious order. Persia
1272-1307 Edward I ruled England.
1273-1302 Muhammad II ruled Granada.
1278-1305 Wenceslaus II was king of Bohemia.
1278-1305 Count Guy of Dampierre ruled Flanders.
1279-1325 Dinis ruled Portugal.
1282-1321 Stephen Milutin ruled Serbia. Balkan
1282-1328 Andronicus II ruled the Byzantine empire.
1283-1350 Yoshida Kenko wrote "Essays in Idleness."
Feudal Japan
1285-1314 Philippe IV ruled France.
1286-1319 Erik VI Menved ruled Denmark.
1286-1324 Guan Yunshi advised Confucian reforms. Yuan
Dynasty
1289-1311 Doge Gradenigo governed Venice.
1291-1308 Albrecht I ruled Austria.
1291-1327 Jaime II ruled Aragon.
1294-1303 Pope Boniface tried to increase papal power.
1294-1307 Temur ruled Mongol China. Yuan
Dynasty
1295-1304 Ghazan founded Mongols' Il-khan dynasty. Crusades
1295-1308 Indravarman III ruled Cambodia
with Buddhism.
1295-1316 Grand Duke Viten ruled Lithuania.
1296-1316 'Ala-ud-din Khalji ruled Delhi Sultanate. Delhi
Sultanate
1296-1333 Wladyslaw Lokietek tried to rule Poland.
1298-1308 Albrecht I was king of Germany.
1298-1337 Frederic III ruled Sicily.
1299-1319 Haakon V ruled Norway.
1299-1326 Osman Ghazi founded Ottoman
dynasty.
1300 Wang wrote Romance of Western Chamber. Chinese
Theater
1300 France had 20 million people. Philippe IV
1300 England had 5 million people. Edward I
1300.5 France’s Philippe IV annexed Flanders.
1301 Giles of Rome wrote De ecclesiastica potestate. Duns Scotus
1302.7.11 Flemish army defeated French cavalry. Flanders
1302.11 Pope Boniface VIII issued Unam sanctum. Philippe IV
1303 Khalji army killed 30,000 Hindus at Chitor. Delhi
Sultanate
1303.9.7 French cavalry arrested Pope Boniface VIII. Philippe IV
1303-73 Birgitta became the patron saint of Sweden.
1304 Giovanni converted 6,000 Chinese. Yuan
Dynasty
1304-16 Khudabanda ruled Mongols' Il-khan empire. Persia
1304-37 Willem II ruled Hainault , Holland, and Zeeland.
1305.8.23 William Wallace was hanged and quartered. Scotland
1305-14 Pope Clement V appointed French cardinals.
Philippe IV1305-22 Robert of Béthune ruled Flanders for France.
1306 Dubois wrote Recovery of the Holy Land. Philippe IV
1306.7.22 Philippe IV expelled the Jews from France.
1306-29 Robert Bruce ruled Scotland.
1307-42 Charles I ruled Hungary.
1308 Pope Clement V moved to Avignon. Philippe IV
1308.11.8 Theologian Duns Scotus died at age 43.
1308-13 Heinrich VII was emperor. Empire
1309.3.16 Scotland’s first parliament met at St. Andrews.
1309.3.27 Pope Clement V excommunicated Venetians. Venice
1310.6.1 Marguerite Porete was burned in Paris.
1310.7.10 Venice formed Council of Ten.
1310 Philippe IV minted debased coins.
1310-13 Heinrich VII visited Italy. Rome
1310-41 Al-Nasir Muhammad ruled Egypt. North
Africa
1310-46 Jan of Luxembourg reigned over Bohemia.
1311 Kafur invaded Ma'bar from Devagiri. Delhi
Sultanate
1311 Emperor Heinrich VII was crowned in Milan.
1311.9.30 English Parliament published Ordinances.
1311-12 Council of Vienne condemned new orders. Béguines
1311-75 Astrologer Liu Ji advised first Ming
emperor.
1312 Vietnam's Tran Anh
Ton invaded Champa.
1312.4 Clement V ended the Order of Templars. Philippe IV
1312-20 Mongol emperor Renzong ruled China. Yuan
Dynasty
1312-28 Doge Soranzo governed Venice in peace.
1312-37 Mansa Musa ruled Mali. Africa
1312-50 Alfonso XI was king of Castile.
1312-55 Jan III ruled Brabant.
1313-41 Uzbek Khan ruled Russia for the Golden Horde.
1313-1905 Chinese used civil service exams on classics. Yuan
Dynasty
1314.6.14 Pisa led by Uguccione plundered Lucca.
1314.6.24 Bruce’s army defeated Edward II’s army.
1314-44 Amda-Siyon ruled Ethiopia.
1314-46 Ludwig of Bavaria was king of Germany.
1315.8 Thomas of Lancaster took power in England. Ordinances
1315.12.9 Three Swiss states formed a confederation.
1316 Prolific philosopher Ramon Llull died.
1316-18 Edward Bruce claimed to be king of Ireland.
1316-34 Pope John XXII fought against Ghibellines. Papal
1316-35 Abu Sa'id ruled declining Il-khan empire. Persia
1316-41 Gedymin ruled Lithuania.
1317 Sanbu made Dongola church a mosque. North
Africa
1317-27 Robert of Anjou ruled over Rome.
1318.4 Lancaster and Middle Party agreed on reforms.
Ordinances1318 John XXII condemned Franciscan Spirituals.
1318.7.19 Austria made a truce with the Forest Cantons.
1318-39 Go-Daigo was emperor of Japan.
1320.4.6 Scots published Arbroath Declaration.
1320 Shepherds’ Crusade killed Jews in France. Sons
1320-25 Ghiyas-ud-din Tughluq Shah ruled in Delhi.
1320-57 Minh-ton ruled Vietnam.
1320-89 Hafiz wrote mystical poetry. Persia
1321.9.13 Dante died of malaria.
1322.3.22 Thomas of Lancaster was beheaded.
Ordinances1322.9.28 Ludwig defeated Friedrich of Austria.
1323 Mongol laws were promulgated in Yuan
China.
1323.10.8 John XXII claimed to judge imperial elections. Germany
1323-25 France started a war against England. Sons
1324.3.23 John XXII excommunicated Ludwig.
1324 Mansa Musa spent gold in Cairo, went to Mecca. Africa
1324 Marsilius wrote The Defender of Peace.
1324-28 Yesun Temur enfeoffed 24 princes in Yuan
China.
1324-60 Orkhan ruled Ottoman
empire.
1325.3 England’s queen Isabella went to France. Edward II
1325 Go-Daigo sent Buddhist Muso Soseki to China. Feudal
Japan
1325 Tenochtitlan was founded in Mexico. Aztecs
1325.9.21 Prince Edward did homage to Charles IV. Edward II
1325-40 Ivan Kalita governed Moscow. Russia
1325-51 Muhammad bin Tughluq ruled as Delhi
sultan.
1325-57 Afonso IV ruled Portugal.
1326.9 Isabella and Mortimer returned to England.
Edward II1327.1 abdicated in favor of Edward III.Edward II
1327 Eckhart fought against charges of heresy.
1327 Western Europe agreed to a treaty on free trade. Sons
1327-36 Alfonso IV ruled Aragon.
1327-77 Edward III was king of England.
1328.6 Pope John XXII excommunicated Ockham.
1328.1.7 Emperor Ludwig was crowned in Rome.
1328.3.17 England accepted Scotland’s independence.
1328 Emperor Ludwig sold Milan to the Visconti.
1328 Philippe VI invaded Flanders.
1328-38 Doge Francesco Dandolo governed Venice.
1328-41 Andronicus III ruled the Byzantine empire.
1328-50 Philippe VI ruled France.
1329 Mossi pillaged Timbuktu. Africa
1330.11.29 Roger Mortimer was hanged for treason. Edward III
1330-1400 Luo Guanzhong wrote novels.
1330-58 Albrecht II ruled Austria.
1330-64 Vizier Gaja Mada expanded Javanese empire.
1331-33 Go-Daigo banished to the island of Oki. Feudal Japan
1331-55 Stephen Dushan ruled Serbia. Balkan
1331-71 Ivan Alexander ruled Bulgaria.Byzantine
1332 Ethiopia beat Ifat, Dawaro, Sharka, Bali, Adal.
1332 Venice increased its army to 30,000.
1332.9.24 Edward Balliol was crowned in Scotland.
1332-64 Magnus IV ruled Sweden.
1332-1406 Ibn Khaldun wrote on philosophy of history.
1333 Kamakura Bakufu rule ended in Japan. Feudal Japan
1333-68 Toghon Temur was last Mongol ruler of China. Yuan Dynasty
1333-70 Kazimierz (Casimir) III ruled Poland.
1333-84 Kannami founded Kanza No theater troupe.
1333-92 Japan was divided in civil war.
1334 Ma'bar rebelled against Delhi.
1334-42 Ibn Battuta visited India. Delhi Sultanate
1334-42 Pope Benedict XII reversed previous policies. Papal
1335 White Lotus Society revolts began in Yuan China.
1335 Juan Manuel wrote El Conde Lucanor.
1336 Vijayanagar became independent of Delhi. North India
1336-56 Harihara I ruled Vijayanagara. South India
1336-58 Takauji founded Ashikaga Bakufu in Kyoto. Feudal Japan
1336-74 Gao Qi wrote poems and stories. Short Stories
1336-87 Pedro IV ruled Aragon, Sicily and islands.
1337 England & France’s “100 Years War” began. Philippe VI Edward III
1338 Bengal became independent of Delhi.
1339.1.24 Treaty of Venice was signed.
1339 England invaded France from Flanders.
Philippe VI Edward III1339 Ockham defended Edward III’s taxes.
1340 'Ubayd-i-Zakani wrote "Ethics of the Aristocracy." Persia
1340 Hasan-i Buzurg founded Jalayarid dynasty. Persia
1340 Jacob van Artevelde led Flemish revolt. Flanders
1340 England defeated French navy off Sluis. Philippe VI Edward III
1340.10.29 Christians defeated Muslims at Saledo. Granada
1340-75 Valdemar IV ruled Denmark.
1341.4.8 Petrarca was crowned with laurel in Rome.
1341-55 Civil war disrupted the Byzantine empire.
1341-76 John V reigned over the Byzantine empire.
1341-1427 Qu Yu wrote stories.
1341-60 Sulayman ruled Mali. Africa
1342 Pisa defeated Lucca.
1342-52 Pope Clement VI sent money to France. Papal State
1342-57 Jani Beg Khan ruled Russia for Mongols.
1342-82 Lajos I ruled Hungary.
1343 Bankruptcy led to reforms in Florence.
1343-54 Doge Andrea Dandolo governed Venice.
1344-72 Saifa Harud ruled Ethiopia.
1345, 1356 Popes imprisoned John of Roquetaillade. Flanders
1345-77 Grand Prince Olgerd (Algirdas) ruled Lithuania.
1346.8 English defeated the French at Crecy. Philippe VI Edward III
1346-84 Count Louis of Male governed Flanders.
1347 Abu'l-Hasan conquered Tunis. North Africa
1347 Cola di Rienzo governed Rome.
1347-78 Karl IV was king of Bohemia.
1347-1527 Bahmani kingdom ruled Deccan. Delhi Sultanate, South India
1348 Edward III founded the Order of the Garter.
1348 Venetian & Genoese ships brought infected rats. Venice
1348 Black Death plague devastated Florence.
1348-52 Boccaccio wrote the Decameron.
1349.1.13 Count Louis of Male captured Ghent. Flanders
1349 Thousands of Jews were killed in Germany.
1349-50 Bubonic plague killed 25 million. Germany
1349-78 Karl IV was king of Germany.
1349-85 Yaji ruled Kano in Hausaland. Africa
c. 1350 Zimbabwe governed by Mbire Bantus. Africa
1350.10 Petrarca and Boccaccio first met.
1350-55 Venice and Genoa were at war.
1350-64 Jean II ruled France.
1350-69 Ramadhipati ruled Siam and founded Ayudhya.
1350-69 Pedro I the Cruel ruled Castile.
1350-89 Hayam Wuruk ruled Java.
1350-1402 Oleg governed Ryazan. Russia
1351 Red Turban revolts began in Yuan China.
1351.1.16 Aragon made a treaty with Venice.
1351.5.1 Zurich joined the Swiss alliance.
1351-74 Kongmin ruled Koryo.
1351-82 Grand Master Winrich led the Teutonic Order.
1351-88 Firuz Shah ruled as Delhi sultan.
1352 Ethiopian Christian Ewostatewos died.
1352-62 Pope Innocent VI financed wars. Papal State
1353 Ibn Battuta visited Mali. Africa
1353.10.8 A mob in Rome killed Cola di Rienzo.
1353-71 Fa Ngum founded and ruled Laos.
1353-82 Giovanna was queen of Naples.
1353-85 Binnya U ruled Mon. Burma
1353-91 Tvrtko I ruled Bosnia. Balkan
1354 Stephen Dushan gave Serbian empire new laws. Balkan
1355 Zhu Yuanzhang's rebels attacked Nanjing. Yuan Dynasty
1355.4.5 Emperor Karl IV was crowned in Rome.
1355.6.1 Venice and Genoa signed a treaty.
1355-80 Haakon VI ruled Norway and married Margrete.
1355-85 Ku Na ruled Chiang Mai, promoted Buddhism. Laos
1355-1406 Johanna ruled Brabant.
1356 Paper money stopped circulating in China. Yuan Dynasty
1356 Diet of Metz codified imperial election. Karl IV
1356.9 English killed 11,000 French at Poitiers. Jean II
1356-77 Bukka I ruled Vijayanagara. South India
1357 Red Turbans captured Kaifeng. Yuan Dynasty
1358.2.18 Venice gave Dalmatia to Hungary in a treaty.
1358.5-8 Peasants plundered France. Jean II
1358 Tlatelolco was founded in Mexico. Aztecs
1358-65 Rudolf IV improved Austria.
1358-1404 Albrecht governed Hainault, Holland, Zeeland.
1359 40,000 rebelling Red Turbans fled into Koryo.
1359 Peace treaty released Jean II.
1359-89 Hammu Musa II ruled Tlemcen. North Africa
1359-89 Sikander ruled Bengal. Delhi Sultanate
1359-89 Dmitri Donskoi governed Moscow. Russia
1360-74 Mari-Djata II ruled Mali. Africa
1361.3.31 Karl IV confirmed Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden. Swiss
1361 100,000 Red Turbans took over north Koryo.
1361-80 Mamai ruled Russia for the Golden Horde. Russia
1361-89 Murad I ruled Ottoman empire.
1362-91 Muhammad V ruled Granada.
1363 Mun Ik-chom brought cotton seeds to Koryo.
1363.7 Pedro IV ceded half of Aragon to Castile.
1363-1443 Zeami wrote No plays.
1364 Turks defeated Serbians and Hungarians. Ottoman
1364 Kazimierz III founded Krakow University. Poland
1364 Luxembourgs, Hapsburgs, Hungary made peace. Germany
1364 Venice suppressed a revolt in Crete.
1364-80 Charles V the Wise ruled France.
1365 Cypriots, Venetians, Genoese took Alexandria. North Africa
1365 Prapanca wrote poem Nagarakertagama. Java
1366.1.25 Heinrich Süs, the mystic, died at Ulm. Dominicans
1366 Ireland’s parliament codified its laws.
1366 Chaucer was sent as an envoy to Spain.
1367-70 Pope Urban V resided in Rome.
1367-83 Fernando I ruled Portugal.
1369.3 Enrique defeated and killed Castile’s Pedro I.
1368 Common people took over Siena.
1368-1401 Mingyi Swasawke ruled Burma.
1368-1644 Ming dynasty ruled China.
1368-98 Hongwu founded Ming dynasty.
1370 Hongwu banned secret Buddhist societies. Ming Dynasty
1370 Koryo general Yi Song-gye defeated Mongols.
c. 1370 Langland wrote Piers the Plowman.
1370.10.7 Six Swiss cantons signed the Priests’ Charter.
1370-78 Pope Gregory XI supported French war. Papal State
1370-88 Boromaraja I ruled Siam, took over Sukhothai.
1370-94 Abul-'Abbas ruled Hafsid state. North Africa
1371.3.31 Castile’s Enrique II made peace with Portugal.
1371 Champa sacked Hanoi. Vietnam
1371 Norway made peace with Hanseatic merchants.
1371-1426 Tezozomoc ruled Tepanecs. Aztecs
1372-91 Acamapichtli ruled the Mexica. Aztecs
1373 96,328 Buddhists and Daoists ordained in China. Ming Dynasty
1373-1403 Muslim Sa'ad-ad-din ruled Zeila. Ethiopia
1373-1416 Sam Sene Thai ruled Laos.
1374 Kanza theater troupe performed before shogun. No Plays
1374.7.19 Petrarca died at Arqua.
1375 China established imperial school system. Ming Dynasty
1375 Timur invaded Mughalistan.
1375-1406 Salutati was chancellor of Florence.
1376 Hongwu executed hundreds of officials in China.
1377.1 Pope Gregory XI moved papacy to Rome. Papal State
1377 Ming army invaded Tibet.
1377 Caterina founded a woman’s monastery in Siena.
1377 French poet Machaut died.
1377 Chaucer was sent to arrange royal marriages.
1377-99 Richard II was king of England.
1377-1404 Harihara II ruled Vijayanagara. South India
1377-1416 Jogaila ruled Lithuania.
1378 Chaucer gave his power of attorney to Gower.
1378.4.8 Roman conclave elected Pope Urban VI. Papal State
1378.9.20 French cardinals elected Pope Clement VII. Papal State
1378-95 Tokhtamysh ruled Russia for Mongols.
1378-1419 Wenceslaus IV ruled Bohemia.
1379-83 Ghent and Bruges fought a civil war. Flanders
1379-1439 Zhu Yudun wrote 31 plays. Theater
1380 Hongwu executed 15,000 people.
1380 Wyclif began translating the Bible into English.
1380.9.8 Muscovites defeated Mamai’s Mongol army. Russia
1380-97 Margrete ruled Denmark and Norway as regent.
1380-1422 Charles VI the Mad was king of France.
1381.3 French revolted against heavy taxes. Charles the Mad
1381 English peasants rebelled against a poll tax.
1382 Wyclif’s writings were condemned.
1382-1411 Dawit ruled Ethiopia.
1382-99 Barquq ruled Egypt. North Africa
1383 Chaucer wrote The Parliament of the Birds.
1384-1404 Philippe the Bold of Burgundy ruled Flanders.
1385 Chaucer became a judge in Kent.
1385.12 Ghent submitted to France. Charles the Mad
1385-1423 Razadarit ruled Mon. Burma
1385-1433 Joao I ruled Portugal.
1386.2 Lithuania’s Jagiello became king of Poland.
1386 Timur invaded Persia.
1387 First Ming land survey was done.
1387 Honoré Bouvet wrote The Tree of Battles. Charles the Mad
1387-96 Juan I ruled Aragon.
1387-1437 Sigismund ruled Hungary.
1388 General Lan Yu attacked the Mongols. Ming Dynasty
1388 Yi Song-gye deposed Koryo's King U.
1389.5.3 Richard II began to rule England.
1389.6 Ottoman Turks defeated Serbs at Kosovo. Balkan
1389 Turks defeated Serbians at Kosovo. Ottoman
1389 Thousands of Jews were massacred in Prague. Bohemia
1389 Mezieres wrote Dream of the Old Pilgrim. Charles the Mad
1389-91 Chaucer supervised public buildings.
1389-1402 Bayezid I ruled Ottoman empire.
1389-1425 Vasily was grand prince of Moscow. Russia
1389-1429 Vikramavarddhana ruled Java.
1390 Ewostatewos men founded Eritrean monastery. Ethiopia
1390 Gujarat's Farhat-ul-Mulk became independent. Delhi Sultanate
1390 Milan’s Galeazzo Visconti invaded Tuscany. Florence
1390 Gower wrote Confessio Amantis.
1390-1410 Kananeji ruled Kano in Hausaland. Africa
1390-1422 Marwar became independent under Chunda. North India
1391-1414 Huitzilihuitl ruled the Mexica. Aztecs
1391-1425 Manuel II ruled Byzantine empire.
1392 Joao I prohibited the persecution of Jews. Portugal
1392.8.5 Charles VI went mad and killed 5 men.
1392-98 Chinese planted one billion trees. Ming Dynasty
1392-98 Yi Song-gye founded Korean Choson dynasty.
1393 Hongwu executed 15,000 people.
1393 Timur conquered the Muzaffarids.
1393 Eight cantons established laws of war. Swiss
1394 Crusade against Granada failed.
1394.7.16 Austria and Swiss Confederation made peace.
1394-5 Richard II subdued Ireland.
1394-1434 Abu Faris ruled Ifriqiya in Tunis. North Africa
1395 Chinese repaired or built 40,987 reservoirs. Ming Dynasty
1395.1 Lollards gave Parliament “Twelve Conclusions.” Wyclif
1395 Venice expelled Jews.
1395 Mexica and Tepanecs conquered Tlaxcala. Aztecs
1396.3.12 Richard II was betrothed to Isabella.
1396 Turks defeated Hungarian Sigismund's crusade. Ottoman
1396 Sigismund led crusade against Turks. Byzantine
1397 Ming code of laws was completed.
1397-1412 Margrete ruled Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
1398 Pisa was sold to the Visconti.
1398-99 Timur invaded India, massacred Hindus. Delhi Sultanate
1399 Teutonic Knights and Lithuanians attacked Golden Horde.
1399.9.29 Richard II was replaced by Henry IV.
1399-1402 Prince Zhu Di of Yan fought civil war. Ming Empire
1400.8.20 Germany deposed King Wenceslaus.
1400 Gower wrote “In Praise of Peace” for Henry IV.
c. 1400 Hopi lived peacefully north of Mexico. Anasazi
1400.10.25 Chaucer died.
1400-18 T'aejong (Yi Pang-won) ruled Korea. Choson Dynasty