14th century

(13th century - 14th century - 15th century - more centuries)

• the transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age
• Beginning of the Ottoman Empire
• Black Death kills about one third of European population (1347 - 1351)
• the end of Mongol Yuan Dynasty in China and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty (1368)
• The heresy of Lollardy rises in England
• The Great Schism of the West begins in 1378, eventually leading to 3 simultaneous popes.
• An account of Buddha's life, translated earlier in to Greek by St John of Damascus[?] and widely circulated to Christians as the story of Jalaam[?] and Josaphat had become so popular that Buddha was made a Catholic saint (Josaphat).

Significant people

• Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian author
• Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet
• Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet and writer

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions