WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 14. CENTURY
Find out what all happened in the first half of the 14. century

4,000 defenders of Pilėnai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights. (25. February 1336)

Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece. (15. March 1311)

The Battle of Boroughbridge take place in the Despenser Wars. (16. March 1322)

Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England. (17. March 1337)

Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, was burned at the stake. (18. March 1314)

Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland. (25. March 1306)

The Siege of Algeciras, one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder was used, comes to an end. (26. March 1344)

Pope Clement V imposes excommunication, interdiction, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse against Venice, which had unjustly seized on Ferrara, a fief of the Patrimony of Peter. (27. March 1309)

Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical. (27. March 1329)

Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from England. (1. April 1318)

Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark. (1. April 1340)

The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath. (6. April 1320)

The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon. (6. April 1327)

Charles University is founded in Prague. (7. April 1348)

Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo. (14. April 1341)

Dušan the Mighty is proclaimed Emperor, with the Serbian Empire occupying much of the Balkans. (16. April 1346)

Fall of the Bavand dynasty, and rise of the Afrasiyab dynasty. (17. April 1349)

The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII. (20. April 1303)

St. George's Night Uprising commences in the Duchy of Estonia. (23. April 1343)

The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St. George's Day. (23. April 1348)