1348
Calendar year
Year 1348 (MCCCXLVIII 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 2nd millennium , the 48th year of the 14th century , and the 9th and pre-final year of the 1340s decade.
Events
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] English Channel by fleas on rats aboard a ship from Gascony to the south coast port of Melcombe (modern-day Weymouth, Dorset );[ 5] [ 6] 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]
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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 161–164 . ISBN 0-304-35730-8 ^ Gransden, Antonia (1957). "A Fourteenth-Century Chronicle from the Grey Friars at Lynn". English Historical Review 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 .
