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

Contents

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.
  • 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
  • July 1 – 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.

    References

    1348 Wikipedia
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