1349

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

Year 1349 Overview

The year 1349 (MCCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Notable Events

January–December

  • January 22 – An earthquake strikes L’Aquila in southern Italy, reaching a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), causing severe damage and resulting in 2,000 deaths.
  • February 14 – During the Black Death, the Strasbourg massacre occurs, where approximately 2,000 Jews are burned due to suspicions of causing the plague.
  • February 19 – The entire Jewish community in the German village of Saulgau is annihilated.
  • March 21 – The Erfurt massacre sees the Jewish community of Erfurt, Germany, murdered and expelled in a vicious pogrom.
  • March 27 – An earthquake causes damage in Meaux Abbey, England.
  • May – The Black Death ceases its spread in Ireland.
  • May 28 – In Breslau, Silesia, 60 Jews are killed following a devastating fire.
  • August 24 – The Black Death re-emerges in Elbing, Poland.
  • September 9 – A series of Apennine earthquakes damages Rome, including the collapse of the southern exterior facade of the Colosseum.
  • October 20 – Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull condemning 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.
  • December 22 – The rise of Alexios III of Trebizond ends the Trapezuntine Civil Wars.

Ongoing Events

The Black Death continues to spread in England, moving northward and carried by a ship to Askøy and Bjørgvin (modern-day Bergen, Norway). The disease also breaks out in Mecca and remains prevalent in the Île-de-France and the Kingdom of Navarre.

Births

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

Deaths

  • February 26 – Death of Fatima bint al-Ahmar, Nasrid princess in the Emirate of Granada (b. c. 1260).
  • April 3 – Death of Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1295).
  • May 31 – Death of Thomas Wake, English politician (b. 1297).
  • June – Death of John Clyn, Irish Franciscan friar and chronicler.
  • June 14 – Death of Günther von Schwarzburg, German king (b. 1304).
  • August 26 – Death of Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • September 11 – Death of Bonne of Luxembourg, queen of John II of France (b. 1315).
  • September 30 – Death of Richard Rolle, English religious writer (b. c. 1300).
  • October 6 – Death of Joan II of Navarre, daughter of Louis X of France (b. 1311).
  • October 25 – Death of James III of Majorca (b. 1315).
  • November 18 – Death of Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1310).
  • Date unknown – Death of Hamdallah Mustawfi, Persian historian and geographer (b. 1281).
  • Probable death of William of Ockham, English philosopher (b. 1285).