A Companion to Latin Greece

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Chronological Table 429


1354 Turks occupy Gallipoli.
1356 19 September: Gauthier ii de Brienne killed at Poitiers fighting as
Constable of France.
1358 22 April: Corinth granted to Niccolò Acciaiuoli by Robert of Taranto.
1361 Turks capture Adrianople.
1362–64 Venetian-Catalan conflict over Euboea.
1363–68 Rebellion of St Titus; Venetian feudatories in Crete rebel against Venice.
1363 Crusade planned in Aegean for March 1365. Pressure brought on
Catalans to dismiss Turkish mercenaries.
1364 Early summer: Turkish fleet defeated off Megara by Venetians and
Hospitallers. Turkish survivors take refuge in Thebes.
10 September: death of Robert of Taranto. His claims to the Latin
Empire and Achaea pass to his brother Philip.
1365 July: peace between Venetians and Catalans. Turks forced to leave the
Duchy of Athens.
8 November: Niccolò Acciaiuoli dies in Naples.
1366 August–December: crusade of Amadeo vi of Savoy to recover Gallipoli.
1370–71 Campaign of the Enghien brothers (Guy, John, and Louis), nephews of
Gauthier ii de Brienne fails to recover the Duchy of Athens from the
Catalans.
1372 First Ottoman landings in Attica, the Morea and the Adriatic.
Pope Gregory xi proposes an international conference to meet at
Thebes in October 1373 to discuss the Ottoman threat.
November: the pope acknowledges Nerio Acciaiuoli as lord of
Corinth.
1373 25 November: Philip of Taranto dies leaving his title as titular Latin
emperor to his nephew Jacques des Baux and the Principality of Achaea
to Joanna of Naples.
1376–81 Fourth Veneto-Genoese war (known as the War of Tenedos or the War
of Chioggia).
1377–81 Achaea leased to the Hospitallers.
1378–1417 The great schism between popes of Avignon and Rome.
1381 Spring: Achaea formally handed back to representatives of Joanna of
Naples by the Hospitallers.
16 July–26 August: Coup in Naples; Joanna of Naples besieged and cap-
tured by Charles of Anjou-Durazzo and the supporters of Jacques des
Baux.
November: Jacques des Baux flies the banners of Romania and Achaea
on his castle at Taranto.
1382 22 May: Joanna of Naples murdered.
7 July: Jacques des Baux, last titular Latin Emperor, dies at Taranto.

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