Little Ice Age
1300–1850* · Event
Centuries of cooler climate across the Northern Hemisphere: advancing glaciers, frozen Thames frost fairs, failed harvests and famine. Its pressures shaped everything from the Norse abandonment of Greenland to the crises of the seventeenth century.
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Around 1300
- Black Death (1346)
- Hundred Years' War (1337)
- Ottoman Empire (1299)
- Dante's Divine Comedy (1320)
- Yuan dynasty (1271)
- Majapahit Empire (1293)
- Mongol sack of Baghdad (1258)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Rumi's Masnavi (1258)
- Muromachi shogunate (Ashikaga) (1336)