WHAT HAPPENED IN 14. CENTURY
Find out what all happened in the 14. century

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

The Trần Dynasty of Vietnam is deposed after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official. (23. March 1400)

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)

Combat of the Thirty : Thirty Breton Knights call out and defeat thirty English Knights. (26. March 1351)

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)

John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal. (6. April 1385)

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

Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Näfels. (9. April 1388)

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

Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Terek River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Volga. The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the Golden Horde throne. Tokhtamysh escapes to Lithuania. (15. April 1395)

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)

Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as the start of the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury. (17. April 1397)

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