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1300<\/strong> Beginning of the Renaissance. Money from Florence, Italy becomes the first international currency. Corsets for women introduced.<\/p>\n

1302<\/strong> Romeo and Juliet marries, according to Shakespeare. They were 14 years old.<\/p>\n

1306<\/strong> Expulsion of Jews from France – they were expelled several times during the century.<\/p>\n

1311<\/strong> The world’s first history, The Great Universal History, published by Rashid-Eddin of Persia. <\/p>\n

1314<\/strong> England bans football (soccer) because it’s too violent. Robert the Bruce<\/a> leads the Scots to victory over the English at the Battle of Bannockburn.<\/p>\n

1324<\/strong> Pope John XXII<\/a> recognizes independent Scotland with Robert the Bruce as its king.<\/p>\n

1326<\/strong> The first reference to a handgun, made in an order for iron bullets.<\/p>\n

1328<\/strong> The sawmill is invented.<\/p>\n

1337<\/strong> The Hundred Years War begins between kings of England and France for control of France. (It lasts 106 years, until 1453.)<\/p>\n

1347<\/strong> The Black Death plague<\/a> begins in Europe, lasting 3 years, killing 25 million people, one third of the European population. The plague is a highly contagious fever caused by the bacillus Yersinia pestis, which is carried by fleas that infest rats.<\/p>\n

1349<\/strong> Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’ published. Along with poet Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio is one of the fathers of the Italian Renaissance. His ‘Decameron’ elevated the status of vernacular literature, that is, in the language of the people, as opposed to Latin, the language of scholars. Expulsion of Jews from Hungary.<\/p>\n

1350<\/strong> Drinking chocolate made by Aztecs.<\/p>\n

1360<\/strong> Leaning Tower of Pisa<\/a> completed.<\/p>\n

1366<\/strong> Weighing scales invented. Statues of Kilkenny belatedly forbid intermarriage of English and Irish.<\/p>\n

1377<\/strong> Richard II, still a child, made King of England.<\/p>\n

1380<\/strong> John Wycliffe begins translation of the Bible into English, finishing the (handwritten) manuscript the following year (some sources date the completion at 1384).<\/p>\n

1387<\/strong> Geoffrey Chaucer<\/a> publish Canterbury Tales.<\/p>\n

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