Events

The Queen's College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is founded.
Petrarch is crowned poet laureate in Rome, the first man since antiquity to be given this honor.
Beginning of the Breton War of Succession over the control of the Duchy of Brittany
Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, expells her husband John Henry of Bohemia, to whom she had been married as a child. She subsequently marries Louis of Bavaria without having been divorced, which results in the Excommunication of the couple.

Births

Years: 1338 1339 1340 - 1341 - 1342 1343 1344
Decades: 1310s 1320s 1330s - 1340s - 1350s 1360s 1370s
Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century