Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

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1346 English defeat
French at Crécy

1347 Plague reaches Italy

1348 Black Death in
England

1351 Zürich joins Swiss
League

1356 English defeat
French at Poitiers;
Golden Bull issued
1357 Turks capture
Adrianople (Edirne)
1358 Jacquerie (peasants’
revolt) in France

1360 Treaty of Brétigny
1361 Denmark at war
with Hanseatic League

1363 Austria obtains
Tyrol

1367 English defeat
Castilians at Nájera

1370 English sack
Limoges

1375 War of the Eight
Saints

1380 Norway and
Denmark united under
Olaf IV

1381 Peasants’ Revolt in
England
1382 Turks capture Sofia

1385 Portuguese defeat
Castilians at Aljubarrota

1348 Pope purchases

town of Avignon

1352 Innocent VI pope

1362 Urban V pope

1370 Gregory XI pope

1378 Great Schism

begins

1384 Death of Wyclif

1343 Joanna I queen of

Naples (→1381)

1347 Charles IV of

Luxembourg becomes

emperor (→1378)

1350 John II king of

France (→1364)

1355 Charles IV crowned

emperor in Rome

1364 Charles V king of

France (→1380)

1365 Charles IV crowned

king of Burgundy at Arles

1369 Henry II first

Trastamara king of Castile

(→1379)

1371 Robert II first Stuart

king of Scotland

(→1390)

1377 Richard II king of

England (→1399)

1378 Wenceslas of

Luxembourg becomes

emperor (→1400)

1380 Charles VI king of

France (→1422)

1385 John I first Avis king

of Portugal (→1433)

1386 Ladislas II first

Jagellon king of Poland

(→1434)

1364 Dondi’s

astronomical clock at

Pavia completed

1375 Catalan Atlas

compiled

1348 Boccaccio at work

on Decameron

1353 Petrarch’s

Canzoniere written

1387 Chaucer’s

Canterbury Tales written

Secular Events Religion Rulers Sciences Arts and Literature

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1370

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