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14th Century
History of the Development of the Modern World
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Edward II Anjou son of Edward I | 1307-1327 |
| Edward II-defeated by Scots at Bannockburn | 1314 |
| Crop failure & famine in Europe | 1315+1316 |
| "Little Ice Age" lasted 550 years-7 degree colder and wetter. Uncertain Summers in Northern Europe | c.1316-c1860 |
| Florence / 1st gunpowder weapons | 1320 |
| English civil war | 1321 - 1322 |
| Osman Turks invade Bursa | 1326 |
| Edward III Anjou son of EII seeks French Throne; New English coins, gold florin & gold noble | 1327-1377 |
| John Wyclif | 1330-1384 |
| Ibn Khaldun, author of "Muqaddimah" | 1332-1406 |
| 100 Years War | 1338-1453 |
| English-victory@naval Battle of Sluys-Edward III titled, king of France | 1340 |
| Geoffrey Chaucer, author of Canterbury Tales | 1340-1400 |
| Ottoman Turks invade Thrace | 1340s |
| Paris Notre-Dame cathedral completed | 1345 |
| English victory over France at Crecy with longbows | 1346 |
| Plague kills 1/3 of Europe and 1/2 of England | 1347-1350 |
| Hayam Wuruk becomes Majapahit Emperor | 1350 |
| Inca Empire Peru | 1350-1533 |
| English victory at Poitiers | 1356 |
| Papal Bull gives German Princes autonomy | 1356 |
| Muhamad V completes construction of most of the Alhambra | 1362-1370 |
| English language replaces French in English law courts | 1362 |
| Ming ("brilliant") Dynasty replaces Mongol rule in China | 1368 |
| English replaces French in English schools | 1385 |
| Richard II, grandson of Ed III, deposed and imprisoned at Pontefract | 1377-1399 |
| Wyclif condemned | 1382 |
| First Bible in English | 1388 |
| Ottoman Turks first invade Hungary | 1390 |
| Jews expelled From France | 1394 |
| Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal-begins "The Age of Discovery" | 1394-1460 |
| Henry IV Lancaster grandson of E III "the usurper" | 1399-1413 |
| 15th Century " Peak of The Renaissance" "The Age of Discovery" "End of The Middle Ages " | 1401-1500 |
| Great vowel shift in English speech | c.1400-1550 |
| Arabic numerals used in Europe | 15th C. |
| Poland and Lithuania defeat The Teutonic Knights of Prussia at Tannenberg | 1410 |
| Henry V Lancaster son of HIV; first sent letters in English | 1413-1422 |
| Henry V defeats the French at Agincourt | 1415 |
| Henry VI Lancaster son of Henry V; insane, deposed and murdered | 1422-1471 |
| Joan of Arc | 1429-1431 |
| Portuguese reach Guinea in search of slaves | 1440 |
| 1st slaves taken from Azores by Portugal | 1444 |
| The Classic Age of Ottoman Architecture | 1447-1616 |
| France retakes Normandy | 1449-1450 |
| Increasing cold forces the end of grape cultivation in England | 1450 |
| Earliest ski-troopers | 1452 |
| English driven from France | 1453 |
| Ottoman Turks Mehmet II conquers Constantinople | 1453 |
| Wars of the Roses "Cousin's War" "Lancaster vs.York" | 1455-1487 |
| Gutenberg Bible | 1458 |
| 1st European who opened the direct sea route from Europe to India: Vasco da Gama | 1460-1524 |
| 1st cannon used in battle in Europe | 1461 |
| Edward IV York great grandson of Edward III | 1461-70 and 1471-83 |
| Erasmus of Rotterdam | 1466-1636 |
| Niccolo Macchiavelli, "The Prince" 1513 | 1469-1527 |
| St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre | 1472 |
| Ferdinand of Aragon & Isabella of Castille rule Spain | 1469-1516 |
| 1st book printed in Magyar-Hungary | 1473 |
| Spanish conquistador: Francisco Pizarro | 1476-1541 |
| 1st book printed in London | 1477 |
| The Spanish Inquisition | 1478 |
| Thomas More | 1478-1535 |
| Martin Luther | 1483-1546 |
| Greenland Norse population disappears-due to extreme cold | 1480-1500 |
| Edward V York murdered in the Tower at age 12 | 1483 |
| Writing in England no longer in Latin or French | 1483 |
| Richard III York brother of Edward IV; killed @ Battle of Bosworth | 1483-1485 |
| Henry VII Tudor defeats Richard III | 1485-1409 |
| Bartolomeu Dias sails around Cape of Good Hope | 1487 |
| 1st gold sovereign | 1489 |
| Ignatius Loyola | 1491-1556 |
| The Erdapfel, the oldest surviving terrestrial globe, was made by the German Martin Behaim. | 1491-1492 |
| Christopher Columbus discovers the West Indes | 1492 |
| Islamic Granada falls; Jews expelled from Spain | 1492 |
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