1347

events

politics and world happening

• Eduard III. conquers Calais. English troops drive the native ones out and settle their own people
• Beginning of the first Pestpandemie in Europe for 600 years. Originally from China (1331), it arrives to Iceland in October with the trade to Messina Sicily and moves then via Marseille over completely France and Europe until and Greenland up. Over the burner passport it creates it only within two years. Prague remains completely spared by this first plague wave. From now on the plague should again the scourge of mankind in Europe its
• hunger emergency in France by the poisonous(Rye) grain mushroom Antoniusfeuer
• after death Ludwig of Bavaria in October is Karl IV. definitely German king is first born without Gegenkönig

,

• 6. February: Dorothea of Montau, catholic holy ones († 1394)
• 25. March: Katharina of Siena, Italian Mystikerin and church teacher († 1380)

died

• 11. October: Ludwig the Bavarian, Herzog von Bayern and emperor of the holy Roman realm (* 1282)