1346

'Years:' 1343 1344 1345 - 1346 - 1347 1348 1349

'Decades:' 1310s 1320s 1330s - '1340s' - 1350s 1360s 1370s

'Centuries:' 13th century - '14th century' - 15th century

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

References

Events

★ April 16 - Serbian Empire was proclaimed in Skopje by Dusan Silni, occupying much of the South-Eastern Europe.

★ July 11 - Charles IV of Luxembourg elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

★ August 26 - Battle of Crécy, after which Edward the Black Prince honoured the bravery of John I, Count of Luxemburg and King of Bohemia (also known as John the Blind), who was killed in the fighting, by adopting his arms and motto: "Ich Dien" or "I Serve"
In addition to the victory at Crécy, the English armies have an annus mirabilis, with further victories over the French at Caen and near Calais, over Scotland at the Battle of Neville's Cross and the Bretons at the Battle of St Pol de Leon during the Hundred Years' War.

★ Battle of Calry Lough Gill in Ireland

★ Widespread warfare between the Irish and Anglo-Irish, and internal warfare among the Irish and Anglo-Irish themselves, in Leinster

★ Foundation of the University of Valladolid.

★ Foundation of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.

★ Denmark sells Northern-Estonia to the Teutonic Knights. See Danish Estonia.

★ Number of banks in Florence collapse, due to internal problems in Florence, contributed by, but not caused by as some historians have claimed, King Edward III of England defaulting on some of his loans (see reference).

Births

★ Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel (died 1397)

★ Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (died 1361)

★ Eustache Deschamps, French poet (died 1405)

★ John I, Duke of Lorraine (died 1390)

Deaths

★ August 26 - Killed in the Battle of Crécy:

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★ Charles II of Alençon (b. 1297)

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★ Louis I of Flanders (born 1304)

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★ John I, Count of Luxemburg (born 1296)

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★ Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (born 1320)

★ John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray

★ Eustace Folville, English outlaw

References

★ MacKenny, Richard; The City State, 1500-1700. Humanities Press International, Inc: Atlantic Highlands, NJ.

★ Hunt, Edwin; “Dealings of the Bradi and Peruzzi” Journal of Economic History, 50, 1 (1990).