CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
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| A.D. | |
|---|---|
| 1347. | Occam died. |
| 1348. | The Great Plague, the Black Death. |
| 1358. | The Jacquerie in France. |
| 1360. | In China the Mongol (Yuan) Dynasty fell, and was succeeded by the Ming Dynasty (to 1644). |
| 1367. | Timurlane assumed the title of Great Khan. |
| 1377. | Pope Gregory XI returned to Rome. |
| 1378. | The Great Schism. Urban VI in Rome, Clement VII at Avignon. |
| 1381. | Peasant revolt in England. Wat Tyler murdered in the presence of King Richard II. |
| 1384. | Wycliffe died. |
| 1398. | Huss preached Wycliffism at Prague. |
| 1405. | Death of Timurlane. |
| 1414-18. | The Council of Constance. Huss burnt (1415). |
| 1417. | The Great Schism ended, Martin V Pope. |
| 1420. | The Hussites revolted. Martin V preached a crusade against them. |
| 1431. | The Catholic Crusaders dissolved before the Hussites at Domazlice. The Council of Basle met. |
| 1436. | The Hussites came to terms with the church. |
| 1439. | Council of Basle created a fresh schism in the church. |
| 1445. | Discovery of Cape Verde by the Portuguese. |
| 1446. | First printed books (Coster in Haarlem). |
| 1449. | End of the Council of Basle. |
| 1453. | Ottoman Turks under Muhammad II took Constantinople. |
| 1480. | Ivan III, Grand-duke of Moscow, threw off the Mongol allegiance. |
| 1481. | Death of the Sultan Muhammad II while preparing for the conquest of Italy. Bayazid II Turkish Sultan (to 1512). |
| 1486. | Diaz rounded the Cape of Good Hope. |
| 1492. | Columbus crossed the Atlantic to America. Rodrigo Borgia, Alexander VI, Pope (to 1503). |
| 1493. | Maximilian I became Emperor. |
| 1498. | Vasco da Gama sailed round the Cape to India. |
| 1499. | Switzerland became an independent republic. |
| 1500. | Charles V born. |
