1349

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Year 1349 (MCCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

January 9 – The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland is rounded up and incinerated, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death.February 14 – Roughly 2,000 Jews are burned to death in Strasbourg.March 21 – The bulk of the 900 strong Jewish community of Erfurt (Germany) is murdered by the rest of the population which accuses the minority to be the underlying cause of the Black Death.May – The Black Death ceases in Ireland.August 24 – The Black Death breaks out in Elbing (Poland).October 20 – Pope Clement VI publishes a papal bull that condemns the Flagellants.

Date unknown

The Black Death spreads to Norway when an English ship with everyone dead on board floats to Bergen.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.The Black Death breaks out in MeccaIbn Battuta arrives in Fez in Morocco.An earthquake in Rome causes extensive damage, including the collapse of the southern exterior facade of the Colosseum.Earthquake in England strikes Meaux Abbey

Births

September 9 – Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)date unknownFriar John, Minister of the Friars Preachers of Ireland (alive 1405)Venerable Macarius of Yellow Lake and Unzha, a semi-legendary Russian saint (d. 1444)

Deaths

May 31 – Thomas Wake, English politician (b. 1297)June – Friar John Clyn, Franciscan and Irish chroniclerJune 14 – Günther von Schwarzburg, German king (b. 1304)August 25 – James III of Majorca (b. 1315)August 26 – Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of CanterburySeptember 11 – Bonne of Luxembourg, queen of John II of France (b. 1315)October 6 – Joan II of Navarre, daughter of Louis X of France (b. 1311)date unknownAgnès of Valois, daughter of John II of France (b. 1345)Hamdollah Mostowfi, Persian historian and geographer (b. 1281)Richard Rolle, English religious writer (b. 1300)probable – William of Ockham, English philosopher (b. 1285)