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| 1398 | Richard II of England executes dissident lords. | |
| Jacques Gringonneur designs first playing cards. | 1392 | |
| First English Bible completed. | 1388 | |
| The Hanseatic League establishes common weights and measures among its many legal, economic, and navigational practices. Legend of Robin Hood develops in England. |
1375 | |
| July An unexplained dancing mania overtakes the people of Aix-la-Chapelle. | 1374 | |
| 1349 | Germans begin to persecute Jews. | |
| Pope Clement VI declares Jews innocent of causing the Black Death. | 1348 | Jews blamed for Black Death and systematically persecuted. |
| House of prostitution with medical examinations established in Avignon to confine and reduce venereal disease. | 1347 | |
| 1346 | Tartars attacking Caffa send plague-infect bodies over the walls of the city. This early example of biowarfare may have advanced the second major Black Death epidemic in Europe. | |
| William of Ockham's Dialogues argue for separation of church and state. | 1343 | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer born. | 1340 | Attackers catapult dead horses at the castle of Thun L'Eveque in France. Perhaps the first documented case of biowarfare. |
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developed in Japan. Mexico City founded. |
1325 | |
| 1322 | Pope John XXII forbids contrapuntal music in churches. | |
| 1317 | France excludes women from monarchy. | |
| Dante Alighieri begins Commedia. | 1307 | |
| 1306 | Phillip IV expels Jews from France. | |
| 1305 | William Wallace is betrayed and executed. | |
| Edward I of England approves the carte mercatoria, greatly increasing free trade. | 1303 | |
| Dominican John of Paris defies the aurthority of the papacy in De Protestate Regia et Papali. | 1302 | January 27 Dante Alighieri fined and exiled from Florence by the Catholic Church. |
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