Events
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June 4 -
Glarus joins the
Swiss Confederation.
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June 27 -
Zug joins the
Swiss Confederation.
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December 18 -
Pope Innocent VI succeeds
Pope Clement VI as the 199th
pope.
★ Morroccan traveller
Ibn Battuta reports the existence of the
ngoni and
balafon instruments at the court of
Mansa Musa.
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DragoÅŸ becomes
voivode of
Moldova.
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Corpus Christi College founded as a College of the
University of Cambridge by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary.
★ The
Ottoman Turk army crosses the
Bosporus, entering the
Balkans.
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Lionel of Antwerp marries Elizabeth, daughter of
William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster.
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William de Ashlee becomes
Rector of
Maids Moreton,
England.
★ The town of
Biel/Bienne,
Switzerland finalizes its alliance with the city of
Bern.
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Reginald de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham becomes a Companion of the
Most Noble Order of the Garter of
England.
★ The
Earldom of Kent becomes extinct (see '
Deaths', below).
★ The
Metropolitan of the
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the
Metropolitan of Halych, began to relocate back to
Kiev, after having moved to
Halych in
1299. Thereafter, the Metropolitan would hold the title of
Metropolitan of Kiev-Halych and All Rus.
Births
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John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter (estimate). (died
1400)
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Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (died
1430)
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Rupert of Germany, Count Palatine of the Rhine (died
1410)
Deaths
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July 3 - Archbishop
Vasilii Kalika of Novgorod.
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September 15 -
Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (born
1273)
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December 6 -
Pope Clement VI (born
1291)
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Matthias of Arras, French architect (born
1290)
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William de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros (born
1325)
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Basarab I, Prince of
Wallachia
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Al-Hakim II, Caliph of Cairo
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Laurence Minot, English poet (born
1300)
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Yoshida Kenko, Japanese monk and author (born
1283)