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This article is about the year 1349. For the Norwegiean black metal band, see 1349 (band).
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1310s 1320s 1330s – 1340s – 1350s 1360s 1370s |
| Years: | 1346 1347 1348 – 1349 – 1350 1351 1352 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1349 MCCCXLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2102 |
| Armenian calendar | 798 ԹՎ ՉՂԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6099 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -495–-494 |
| Bengali calendar | 756 |
| Berber calendar | 2299 |
| English Regnal year | 22 Edw. 3 – 23 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1893 |
| Burmese calendar | 711 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6857–6858 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊子年十二月十二日 (3985/4045-12-12) — to —
己丑年十一月廿一日(3986/4046-11-21) |
| Coptic calendar | 1065–1066 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1341–1342 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5109–5110 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1405–1406 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1271–1272 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4450–4451 |
| Holocene calendar | 11349 |
| Iranian calendar | 727–728 |
| Islamic calendar | 749–750 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3682 |
| Minguo calendar | 563 before ROC 民前563年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1892 |
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Year 1349 (MCCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–December
- January 9 – The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland is rounded up and incinerated, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death.
- February 14 – Roughly 2,000 Jews are burned to death in Strasbourg.[1]
- March 21 – The bulk of the 900 strong Jewish community of Erfurt (Germany) is murdered by the rest of the population which accuses the minority to be the underlying cause of the Black Death.[2]
- May – The Black Death ceases in Ireland.
- August 24 – The Black Death breaks out in Elbing (Poland).
- October 20 – Pope Clement VI publishes a papal bull that condemns the Flagellants.
[edit] Date unknown
- The Black Death spreads to Norway when an English ship with everyone dead on board floats to Bergen.
- Pope Clement VI annuls the marriage of William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, and Joan of Kent, on the grounds of her prior marriage to Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent.
- The Black Death breaks out in Mecca
- Ibn Battuta arrives in Fez in Morocco.
- An earthquake in Rome causes extensive damage, including the collapse of the southern exterior facade of the Colosseum.
- Earthquake in England strikes Meaux Abbey
[edit] Births
- September 9 – Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
- date unknown
- Friar John, Minister of the Friars Preachers of Ireland (alive 1405)
- Venerable Macarius of Yellow Lake and Unzha, a semi-legendary Russian saint (d. 1444)
[edit] Deaths
- May 31 – Thomas Wake, English politician (b. 1297)
- June – Friar John 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 of John II of France (b. 1315)
- October 6 – Joan II of Navarre, daughter of Louis X of France (b. 1311)
- date unknown
- Agnès of Valois, daughter of John 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)
[edit] References
- ^ Fordham.edu
- ^ Lemaître, Frédéric (19 September 2011). "Erfurt, ses juifs et l'UNESCO" (in French). Le Monde. http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2011/09/19/erfurt-ses-juifs-et-l-unesco_1574328_3214.html. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
