Black Death
1346–1353 · Event
Bubonic plague kills perhaps a third of Europe's population.
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Around 1346
- Ottoman Empire (1299)
- Dante's Divine Comedy (1320)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Joseon dynasty (1392)
- Hundred Years' War (1337)
- Zheng He (1371)
- Muromachi shogunate (Ashikaga) (1336)
- Reign of Edward III (1327)
- Founding of the Ottoman Empire (1299)