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Calendar year
Year 1348 (
MCCCXLVIII ) was a
leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar , the 1348th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 348th year of the
2nd millennium , the 48th year of the
14th century , and the 9th and pre-final year of the
1340s decade.
Events
January–December
January – Gonville Hall, the forerunner of
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge , England, is founded.
January 25 – The 6.9-magnitude
1348 Friuli earthquake centered in Northern Italy is felt across Europe. Contemporary minds link the quake with the
Black Death , fueling fears that the Biblical Apocalypse has arrived.
February 2 –
Battle of Strėva : the
Teutonic Order secure a victory over the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania . Sources tell of a blow to Lithuanian leadership, one that the Teutonic Order could not fully make use of due to the Black Death.
[1]
[2]
April 7 –
Charles University in
Prague , founded the previous year by
papal bull , is granted privileges by
Charles I, King of Bohemia , in a
golden bull .
[3]
April 23 –
Edward III of England creates the first English order of chivalry, the
Most Noble Order of the Garter .
By
June 24 – The
Black Death pandemic reaches
England ,
[4] having probably been brought across the
English Channel by fleas on rats aboard a ship from
Gascony to the south coast port of
Melcombe (modern-day
Weymouth, Dorset );
[5]
[6] by November it will have reached
London and by
1350 will have killed one third to a half of its population.
July 6 – A papal bull is issued by
Pope Clement VI ,
protecting Jews against popular aggression during the Black Death pandemic.
November 1 – The anti-royalist
Union of Valencia attacks the
Jews of
Murviedro because they are
serfs of the
King of Valencia and thus "royalists".
November 18 –
Emperor Kōmyō of Japan abdicates the throne in favour of his son
Emperor Sukō , making them the second and third of the
Northern Court (Ashikaga Pretenders).
[7]
Date unknown
Births
Deaths
February 2 –
Narimantas , Christian Lithuanian prince of Pinsk (Battle of Strėva)
June 9 –
Ambrogio Lorenzetti , Sienese painter (Black Death) (b.
1290 )
June 13 –
Don Juan Manuel , prince of Villena, Spanish writer (b.
1282 )
July 1 –
Joan of England , princess (Black Death) (b. 1333/34)
August 20 –
Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke , English noble (b.
1319 )
August 23 –
John de Stratford ,
Archbishop of Canterbury (b. c.1275)
October 2 –
Alice de Lacy, 4th Countess of Lincoln , English noblewoman (b.
1281 )
Emperor Hanazono
References
^ Sužiedėlis, Simas, ed. (1970–1978). "Strėva, Battle of". Encyclopedia Lituanica. Vol. V. Boston, Massachusetts: Juozas Kapočius. pp. 308–309. LCCN 74-114275.
^ Baranauskienė, Inga (2002-12-07). "Kęstutis ir Algirdas: 1344–1345 m. perversmas ir valdžios dalybos". Voruta (in Lithuanian). 23 (521).
^ "Littera fundationis Universitatis Carolinae Pragensis" (in Latin). 7 April 1348.
^ Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
161–164 .
ISBN
0-304-35730-8 .
^ Gransden, Antonia (1957). "A Fourteenth-Century Chronicle from the Grey Friars at Lynn".
English Historical Review . lxxii: 274.
doi :
10.1093/ehr/lxxii.cclxxxiii.270 .
^ Ibeji, Mike (March 10, 2011).
"Black Death" . History .
BBC . Retrieved April 12, 2020 .
^ Sansom, George (1961). A History of Japan, 1334-1615. Stanford University Press. p. 82,86. ISBN 0804705259.
^ Lynn II, John A (2004). Battle: A History of Combat and Culture. Philadelphia: Westview Press Inc. ISBN 978-0-8133-3372-4. pp. 85–90
^
"Geography at about.com" . Archived from
the original on July 14, 2007. Retrieved March 1, 2006 .