1300 Edward I invaded Scotland
 Wenceslas II of Bohemia elected King of Poland
apothecaries became popular in German cities
temporary end of European slave trade
Forbidden City, Peking is built about this time
Choula, Mexico regained prominence
spinning wheel was used in Europe
1303 first medical reference to spectacles
1305 Edward I standardized the yard and acre
1306 Robert Bruce crowned King of Scots
1307 Dante began "Divina Commedia" (Divine Comedy)
1308 King Phillip IV, France, built one of the first indoor
tennis courts
1309 Doge's Palace, Venice, built
Orleans University founded
1312 Canary Islands rediscovered by Genoa
Mansa Musa became emperor of Mali
1313 German Friar Berthold Schwarz invented
gunpowder
1315 silk industry developed in Lyons
1316 Muberak crowned, last of Khilji rulers, Delhi
1322 English folk hero, Robin Hood, first mentioned
1324 Marco Polo died
1325 Aztecs founded capital, present day Mexico City
1327 Great fire of Munich
1328 Ivan I made Moscow capital of Russia
invention of the sawmill
1331 first record of weaving in England (York)
Moscow's Kremlin first mentioned
1332 Lucerne joined Swiss League
first record of Parliment divided into two houses
bubonic plague originated in India
1337 Hundred Years' War began
1340 Geoffrey Chaucer born
1342 Pope Clement VI
1347 Black Death devastated Europe
1349 Persecution of the Jews in Germany
Black Death killed a third of English population
1350 Li Hsing Tao (China) wrote "The Chalk Circle"
1351 tennis became an open-air game in England
75 million died from Black Plague
1352 Ibn Battuta (arab geographer) explored Sahara
Desert
1354 Turks capture Gallipoli
Shroud of Turin first mentioned
1357 revolution in Paris against the Dauphin
1361 Black Death reappeared in England
1363 Rudolph IV (Austria) took Tirol
Timur the Lame, began conquest of Asia
Aztecs built Tenochtitlan
1364 revolts in Crete against Venetian rule
1368 restoration of the Great Wall of China began
Ming dynasty of China is begun
1369 Venice repelled Hungarian invasion
building of the Bastille (Paris) began
1370 steel crossbow used as a weapon of war
first modern perfume is made for Queen of Hungary
1371 English defeated Fleming
1377 playing cards replaced dice in Germany
1381 Venice won Hundred Years' War against Genoa
1382 Turks captured Sophia
1386 Geoffrey Chaucer began "Cantebury Tales"
1390 Robert III crowned (Scotland)
Jan van Eyck born, Dutch painter
1392 succession disputed in Japan; the Ashikagas
became shoguns
1396 Johann Gutenberg born
1399 Luca della Robbia born, Italian sculptor
Guillaume Dufay born, Dutch composer
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Dante Alighieri
Aztec temple
Shroud of Turin
Great Wall of China
The Bastille
Geoffrey Chaucer
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