1346

This page relates to the year 1346 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Majorquin Jacques Ferrer sees the the Canaries whereas it from there will be explored the coasts of Guinea.

the emir Kazgan revolts against the khan djaghataïde of Transoxiane Qazan, considered to be not very honest, and kills it. It allots the throne of Transoxiane to a descendant of Ögödei, Dânich-mendiya (fine of reign in 1348).
the Moroccan traveller Ibn Battûta approaches Samudra, capital of the Sultanat of Passed in the north of the island Indonesia of Sumatra.

April 16th: Etienne Douchan is crowned by the patriarch which it installed with Skopje king of Serbia and of all Grèces. It cannot take Constantinople for lack of fleet.
May 21st: Jean Cantacuzène agrees to receive the Byzantine imperial crown with Andrinople, of the hands of the Patriarch of Jerusalem. He enters to Constantinople the February 3rd 1347.

the Othoman sultan Orkhan intervenes in Europe to help his/her father-in-law Jean Cantacuzène against the Serb ones.

July 11th: Election of Charles IV, Germanic Roman Emperor after the deposition of Louis IV (until in 1378).

August 20th: Louis de Tarente wife Jeanne Anger of Naples. The king Louis Ier of Hungary, furious, intervenes militarily (1347 - 1348). Jeanne leaves Naples for the Provence, then joined Avignon.
October 17th: David II of Scotland invades the England but is beaten with Neville' S Cross and is captured until in 1357.

Edouard III founds the Order of the Garter (1346 - 1348).
the Estonia passes under the government of the teutonic Chevaliers which bought it for 19 000 marks of money to the Denmark.
Tap-holes lost by Genoa in 1329, is reconquered by a company of ship-owner Génois, the mahone .
Charles Grimaldi buys Menton.

July 21st: Renault de Gobehen, under the control of Geoffroy d' Harcourt, burns the suburbs of Avranches for Edouard III, which invaded the Normandy.
August 24th: The English troops, which plunder and burn the villages of the Ponthieu on their passage, put at bag Ponthoile the day of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, hardly two days before the Bataille of Crécy, burning the Church, dating from the 12th century.

August 26th: Philippe VI, king of France, undergoes a heavy defeat with Crécy, overcome by the English archers, against the king of England Edouard III and the Prince Noir. First use of guns (bombards S) in Occident (This assertion is discussed and is not quoted by all the chroniclers of the time).
September 4th: Head office of Calais by the English.

Construction of the nave of the Cathedral of Winchester in perpendicular Gothic Style.
Development of the carved decoration of the Palate of the Doges to Venice.
Foundation of the university of Valladolid in Spain.
Pétrarque condemns the luxury and the corruption of the Church.
Sainte Brigitte (1302 - 1373) receives the king de Suède and the queen Blanche of Namur to the monastery of Vadstena.

the population of the England, with nearly 4 million inhabitants, tripled since 1086.

With the reconquest of Tap-holes, Génois become the principal providers in Alun of European textile industry.

August 26th: At the time of the Battle of Crécy, with Crécy-in-Ponthieu, in the Somme:

Jean of Luxembourg, known as the Blind man , king of Bohemia, being useful in the French Army.
Charles II of Alençon, count d' Alençon, count of the Pole.
Louis I {{er}} of Flanders born Louis de Dampierre , known as Louis Ier of Nevers , count de Flandre.
Raoul of Lorraine, known as '' Valiant the '', duke of Lorraine, with the Battle of Crécy.
Louis Ier of Blois-Châtillon, count de Blois, count de Dunois, Lord of Soissons and Beaumont.
Henri IV of Vaudémont, count de Vaudémont.
Jean IV of Harcourt, count d' Harcourt, Viscount of Chatellerault.

Be-X-old: 1346 Map-bms: 1346

Random links: