1348

'Years:' 1345 1346 1347 - 1348 - 1349 1350 1351

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

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

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ April 7 - Charles University is founded in Prague.

★ June - 2 ships enter the Bristol Channel and bring the bubonic plague to England.

★ June 24 - Black Death outbreak in full swing in Melcombe Regis (modern-day Weymouth, Dorset in England).

★ July 6 - Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting Jews against popular aggression during the Black Death epidemic.

★ Beginning of Black Death epidemic in central and western Europe.

★ End of the reign of Emperor Komyo of Japan, second of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders.

★ Start of the reign of Emperor Sukō, third of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders.

★ Edward III of England creates the first English order of chivalry, the Order of the Garter.

★ Pskov Republic gains independence from the Novgorod Republic with the treaty of Bolotovo.

★ Black Death in Cairo.

★ Estimation: Hangzhou in Mongolian China becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Cairo, capital of Mamluk Egypt.[1]

★ Truce between England and France until 1532.

★ Gonville Hall, the forerunner of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge was founded.

Births

★ John Fitzalan, 1st Lord Arundel (died 1379)

Deaths

★ February 2 - Narymunt, Prince of Pinsk

★ December 2 - Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan (born 1297)

★ Laura, beloved of Petrarch (born 1310)

★ John de Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury

★ Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (born 1290)

★ Pietro Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (born 1280)

★ Andrea Pisano, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1270)