History
1348
General
Population: 370 Million*
- Entertainment: Boccaccio writes Decameron - stories told by people fleeing from plague
- Religion: Pope Clement VI proposes pilgrimage to Rome – just as plague hits. A million leave, but only 100,000 return
- Deaths: Poet Juan Manuel
Africa
- Egypt: Plague devastation
Europe
- General: Jews blamed and persecuted for causing black death, but Pope Clement VI declares Jews innocent of causing Black Death
25,000,000 killed in Europe to 1666
- Cyprus: Plague wipes out much of population
- Czechoslovakia: Prague U founded by Charles IV
- England: Edward III founds Order of the Garter
Goncille and Caius College at Cambridge founded
Plague
- France: Plague
- German States: "False Valdemar" gains rule of Brandenburg before being exposed as swindler two years later
Plague
- Ireland: Plague wipes out much of population
- Italian States: Plague
- Scotland: Plague