1348

	1348 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature – Music – Science
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1310s 1320s 1330s – 1340s – 1350s 1360s 1370s
Years:	1345 1346 1347 – 1348 – 1349 1350 1351

Year 1348 (MCCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1348

April 7 – Charles University is founded in Prague.
June – Two ships enter the Bristol Channel and bring the bubonic plague to England.
June 24 – The Black Death outbreak goes into full swing in Melcombe Regis (modern-day Weymouth, Dorset in England).
July 6 – A Papal bull is issued by Pope Clement VI, protecting Jews against popular aggression during the Black Death epidemic.
The Black Death epidemic spreads to central and western Europe.
Emperor Sukō succeeds Emperor Komyo of Japan, making them the second and third of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders, respectively.
Stefan the Mighty, Emperor of Serbia conquers Thessaly and Epirus.
Edward III of England creates the first English order of chivalry, the Most Noble Order of the Garter.
The Pskov Republic gains independence from the Novgorod Republic with the treaty of Bolotovo.
The Black Death breaks out in Cairo.

Estimation: Hangzhou in Mongolian China becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Cairo, capital of Mamluk Egypt.[1]
A truce is observed between England and France until 1532.
Gonville Hall, the forerunner of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge is founded.
November 1 — The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro because they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".