Wikipedia / 1349
Wikipedia / 1349
Year 1349 (MCCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
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January–December
January 22 An earthquake affects L'Aquila in southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), causing severe damage, and leaving 2,000 dead.
February 14 Jewish persecutions during the Black Death: Strasbourg massacre Because they are believed by the residents to be the cause of the Black Death, roughly 2,000 Jews are burned to death.
February 19 Jewish persecutions during the Black Death: The entire Jewish community in the remote German village of Saulgau is wiped out.
March 21 Jewish persecutions during the Black Death: Erfurt massacre The Jewish community of Erfurt (Germany) is murdered and expelled in a pogrom.
March 27 An earthquake in England strikes Meaux Abbey.
May 28 In Breslau, Silesia, 60 Jews are murdered following a disastrous fire which destroys part of the city.
August 24 The Black Death breaks out in Elbing (Poland).
September 9 1349 Apennine earthquakes. An earthquake in Rome causes extensive damage, including the collapse of the southern exterior facade of the Colosseum.
October 20 Pope Clement VI publishes a papal bull that condemns the Flagellants.
November 8 Ibn Battuta arrives in Fez, Morocco.
November 17 Pope Clement VI annuls the marriage of William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, and Joan of Kent, on the grounds of her prior marriage to Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent.
December 22 The rise of Alexios III of Trebizond to the throne ends the Trapezuntine Civil Wars.
Ongoing
The Black Death in England spreads to the north and a ship from England carries it to Askøy and Bjørgvin (modern-day Bergen) in Norway. The disease also breaks out in Mecca and is prevalent in the Île-de-France and the Kingdom of Navarre.</onlyinclude>
Births
September 9 Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
date unknown
Friar John, Minister of the Friars Preachers of Ireland (alive 1405)
Venerable Macarius of Yellow Lake and Unzha, semi-legendary Russian saint (d. 1444)
Deaths
February 26 Fatima bint al-Ahmar, Nasrid princess in the Emirate of Granada (b. c.1260)
May 31 Thomas Wake, English politician (b. 1297)
June 14 Günther von Schwarzburg, German king (b. 1304)
September 11 Bonne of Luxembourg, queen of John II of France (b. 1315)
September 30 Richard Rolle, English religious writer (b. c.1300)
October 6 Joan II of Navarre, daughter of Louis X of France (b. 1311)
date unknown Hamdallah Mustawfi, Persian historian and geographer (b. 1281)
probable William of Ockham, English philosopher (b. 1285)
References