- 1349
Year 1349 was a
common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1349
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January 9 - TheJewish population ofBasel ,Switzerland is rounded up and incinerated, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoingbubonic plague .
*February 14 - Roughly 2,000Jew s are burned to death inStrasbourg . [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/1348-jewsblackdeath.html]
*May - TheBlack Death ceases inIreland .
*August 24 - TheBlack Death breaks out in Elbing (modern-dayElbląg inPoland ).
*October 20 -Pope Clement VI publishes apapal bull that condemns theFlagellant s.
* TheBlack Death spreads toNorway when an English ship with everyone dead on board floats to Bergen.
* Pope Clement VI annuls the marriage ofWilliam Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury , andJoan of Kent , on the grounds of her prior marriage toThomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent .
* Sixteen thousand Jews are killed inStrasbourg during the year.
*Ibn Battuta arrives inFez inMorocco .Births
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September 9 - DukeAlbert III of Austria (d.1395 )
* Friar John, Minister of the Friars Preachers of Ireland (alive1405 )
* Venerable Macarius of Yellow Lake and Unzha, a semi-legendary Russian saint (d. 1444)Deaths
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May 31 -Thomas Wake , English politician (b.1297 )
*June - FriarJohn Clyn , Franciscan and Irish chronicler
*June 14 -Günther von Schwarzburg , German king (b.1304 )
*August 25 -James III of Majorca (b.1315 )
*August 26 -Thomas Bradwardine ,Archbishop of Canterbury
*September 11 -Bonne of Luxembourg , queen ofJohn II of France (b.1315 )
*October 6 -Joan II of Navarre , daughter ofLouis X of France (b.1311 )
*"date unknown"
**Agnès of Valois , daughter ofJohn II of France (b.1345 )
**Hamdollah Mostowfi , Persian historian and geographer (b.1281 )
**Richard Rolle , English religious writer (b.1300 )
*"probable" -William of Ockham , English philosopher (b.1285 )
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