1348

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

1348 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1348 MCCCXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2101
Armenian calendar	797 ԹՎ ՉՂԷ
Assyrian calendar	6098
Balinese saka calendar	1269–1270
Bengali calendar	755
Berber calendar	2298
English Regnal year	21 Edw. 3 – 22 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1892
Burmese calendar	710
Byzantine calendar	6856–6857
Chinese calendar	丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4045 or 3838     — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4046 or 3839
Coptic calendar	1064–1065
Discordian calendar	2514
Ethiopian calendar	1340–1341
Hebrew calendar	5108–5109
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1404–1405
- Shaka Samvat	1269–1270
- Kali Yuga	4448–4449
Holocene calendar	11348
Igbo calendar	348–349
Iranian calendar	726–727
Islamic calendar	748–749
Japanese calendar	Jōwa 4 (貞和４年)
Javanese calendar	1260–1261
Julian calendar	1348 MCCCXLVIII
Korean calendar	3681
Minguo calendar	564 before ROC 民前564年
Nanakshahi calendar	−120
Thai solar calendar	1890–1891
Tibetan calendar	阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 1474 or 1093 or 321     — to — 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 1475 or 1094 or 322

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

Events

January–December

• April 7 – Charles University is founded in Prague.
• June – Two ships enter the Bristol Channel bringing 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.
• 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".

Date unknown

• The Black Death epidemic spreads to central and western Europe.
• Emperor Sukō succeeds Emperor Komyo of Japan, making them the third and second 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.
• A de facto truce is observed between England and France until 1355.
• Gonville Hall, the forerunner of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge is founded.

Births

• date unknown
  • John Fitzalan, 1st Lord Arundel (d. 1379)
  • Andronikos IV Palaiologos, The Byzantine Emperor

Deaths

• February 2 – Narymunt, Prince of Pinsk
• June 9 – Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (b. 1290)
• August 23 – John de Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury
• September 2 – Joan, Princess of England
• December 2 – Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan (b. 1297)
• date unknown
  • Laura, beloved of Petrarch (b. 1310)
  • Pietro Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (b. 1280)
  • Giovanni Villani, chronicler of Florence (b. c. 1276)
  • Umur Bey, Emir of Aydin

Thousands of people across Europe as they succumbed to the devastating plagues that blazed through countries.