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'Years:' 1344 1345 1346 - 1347 - 1348 1349 1350

'Decades:' 1310s 1320s 1330s - '1340s' - 1350s 1360s 1370s

'Centuries:' 13th century - '14th century' - 15th century

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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ The Black Death ravages Europe (1347-1351).

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★ October - Genoese ships traveling from the Crimea bring the bubonic plague to Messina, from which it spreads across Sicily and in Italy.

★ Roman Commoner Cola di Rienzo proclaims himself a new Roman dictator in Capitoline Hill in Rome; Pope Clement VI denounces him as a pagan and a heretic and he is driven out of the city by the end of the year.

★ Hundred Years War: English defeat the French at the Battle of Croytoye.

★ John VI Kantakouzenos becomes joint Byzantine Emperor after civil war with the regency of the young Emperor John V Palaiologos.

★ James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde, granted his ''"regalities"'' by Edward III.

Births

★ March 25 - Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (died 1380)

★ Eleanor of Arborea, ruler of Sardinia (died 1404)

Deaths

★ October 11 - Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1282)

★ Adam Murimuth, English ecclesiastic and chronicler (born 1274)

★ John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey (born 1286)

★ Hazrat Shah Jalal, sufi saint of Bengal (born 1271)

★ Saint Flora, Catholic patroness of abandoned convents, single women & victims of betrayal