Year 1348 ( MCCCXLVIII) was a

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, the 1348th year of the

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'' (AD) designations, the 348th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 14th century, and the 9th and pre-final year of the

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decade.

Events

January–December

* January – Gonville Hall, the forerunner of

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, England, is founded. * January 25 – The 6.9-magnitude

1348 Friuli earthquake The 1348 Friuli earthquake, centered in the South Alpine region of Friuli, was felt across Europe on 25 January. The earthquake hit in the same year that the Great Plague ravaged Italy. According to contemporary sources, it caused considerabl ...

centered in Northern Italy was felt across Europe. Contemporary minds linked the quake with the Black Death, fueling fears that the Biblical Apocalypse had arrived. * February 2 –

Battle of Strėva The Battle of Strėva, Strebe, or Strawe was fought on 2 February 1348 between the Teutonic Order and the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania on the banks of the Strėva River, a right tributary of the Neman River, near present-day Žiežmariai. Chronic ...

: the

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secure a victory over the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. * April 7 – Charles University in Prague, founded the previous year by papal bull, is granted privileges by Charles I, King of Bohemia, in a golden bull. * April 23 – Edward III of England creates the first English order of chivalry, the Most Noble Order of the Garter. * By June 24 – The Black Death pandemic has reached Kingdom of England, England, having probably been brought across the English Channel by fleas on rats aboard a ship from Gascony to the south coast port of Melcombe Regis, Melcombe (modern-day Weymouth, Dorset); by November it will have reached London and by 1350 will have killed one third to a half of its population. * July 6 – A papal bull is issued by Pope Clement VI, anti-Semitism, protecting Jews against popular aggression during the Black Death pandemic. * November 1 – The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro because they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists". * November 18 – Emperor Kōmyō of Japan abdicates the throne in favour of his son Emperor Sukō, making them the second and third of the Northern Court (Ashikaga Pretenders).

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* The Black Death pandemic spreads to central and western Europe and to Cairo. * Stefan the Mighty, Serbian Empire, Emperor of Serbia, conquers Thessaly and Despotate of Epirus, Epirus. * The Pskov Republic gains independence from the Novgorod Republic with the treaty of Bolotovo. * Hundred Years' War (1337–1360): The effects of the Black Death cause a de facto truce to be observed between England and France until 1355. * Estimation: Hangzhou in Mongol Empire, Mongolian China becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Cairo, capital of Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo), Mamluk Egypt.Geography at about.com.
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Births

* April 11 – Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1385) * ''date unknown'' ** John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel, John Fitzalan, 1st Lord Arundel (d. 1379) ** Alice Perrers, politically active English royal mistress and courtier (d. 1400)

Deaths

* February 2 – Narimantas, Christian Lithuanian prince of Pinsk (Battle of Strėva) * June 9 – Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (Black Death) (b. 1290) * June 13 – Don Juan Manuel, prince of Villena, Spanish writer (b. 1282) * July 1 – Joan of England (1335–1348), Joan of England, princess (Black Death) (b. 1333/34) * August 20 – Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke, English noble (b. 1319) * August 23 – John de Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. c.1275) * October 2 – Alice de Lacy, 4th Countess of Lincoln, English noblewoman (b. 1281) Emperor Hanazono detail

* ''date unknown'' ** Laura de Noves, French countess, presumed beloved of Petrarch (b. 1310) ** Pietro Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (Black Death) (b. 1280) ** Umur of Aydın, Emirate of Aydin, Emir (killed in action) (b. c.1309) ** Giovanni Villani, chronicler of Florence (Black Death) (b. c. 1276)

References

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