History
1344
General
Population: 450 Million*
- Deaths: Artist Simone Martini
Asia
- Famine throughout Hindustan in India
Europe
- Czechoslovakia: St. Vitus' Cathedral in Prague begun by Matthew of Arras
- France: Philip VI invests his son Philip with the newly created dukedom of Orleans
- German States: First known use of term Hanseatic League as sea towns in German areas join
Middle East
- Waves inundate Constantinople