History
1314
General
Population: 438 Million*
- Entertainment: Dante begins Divine Comedy
- Religion: Death of Pope Clement V – vacancy for two years
- Deaths: Philip IV of France, Pope Clement V, Templar Jacques de Molay
Europe
- General: Thuringia (GER) Poland, England, Ireland, and Silesia (GER/POL) suffer famine
- England: English under Edward II routed by Robert Bruce at Battle of Bannockburn
Completion of old St. Paul's Cathedral in London
Edward II flees and people start rumors that Edward II is a changeling with commoners – Wife Isabella takes lover Mortimer
Famine in Britain forces people to eat horses dogs cats and vermin
- France: Death of Philip IV the Fair – succeeded by three sons Louis X (the Quarrelsome) Philip V and Charles IV
Jacques de Molay Grand Master of the Templars burned at the stake in Paris for alleged heresy
- Holy Roman Empire: Double election of Frederick of Austria (Habsburg) and Louis IV (Wittelsbach) of Bavaria
Louis IV HRE to 1347 in civil war with rival Frederick of Austria
- Ireland: Irish famine causes great civil insurrection
- Scotland: Scots defeat England at battle of Bannockburn - Scottish independence