14th century

Events

• 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.

Significant people

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

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

• Iron Needles
• Mechanical Clocks

See also:

• 13th Century
• 15th Century
• period
• 14th Century English Poetry

External Garb Links

• Some Clothing of the Middle Ages - http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/cloth/bockhome.html