1348

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Year 1348 (MCCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• April 7 – Charles University is founded in Prague.
• June – Two ships enter the Bristol Channel bringing the bubonic plague to England.
• June 24 – The Black Death outbreak goes into full swing in Melcombe Regis (modern-day Weymouth, Dorset in England).
• July 6 – A Papal bull is issued by Pope Clement VI, protecting Jews against popular aggression during the Black Death epidemic.
• 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".

Date unknown

• The Black Death epidemic spreads to central and western Europe.
• Emperor Sukō succeeds Emperor Komyo of Japan, making them the third and second of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders, respectively.
• Stefan the Mighty, Emperor of Serbia conquers Thessaly and Epirus.
• Edward III of England creates the first English order of chivalry, the Most Noble Order of the Garter.
• The Pskov Republic gains independence from the Novgorod Republic with the treaty of Bolotovo.
• The Black Death breaks out in Cairo.
• Estimation: Hangzhou in Mongolian China becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Cairo, capital of Mamluk Egypt.^[1]
• A de facto truce is observed between England and France until 1355.
• Gonville Hall, the forerunner of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge is founded.

Births

• date unknown
  • John Fitzalan, 1st Lord Arundel (d. 1379)
  • Andronikos IV Palaiologos, The Byzantine Emperor

Deaths

• February 2 – Narymunt, Prince of Pinsk
• June 9 – Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (b. 1290)
• August 23 – John de Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury
• September 2 – Joan, Princess of England
• December 2 – Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan (b. 1297)
• date unknown
  • Laura, beloved of Petrarch (b. 1310)
  • Pietro Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (b. 1280)
  • Giovanni Villani, chronicler of Florence (b. c. 1276)
  • Umur Bey, Emir of Aydin

Thousands of people across Europe as they succumbed to the devastating plagues that blazed through countries.

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