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CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS CONNECTED WITH WYCLIFF

a.d.

Facts in Wyclif's Life

Kings of England

Archbishops of Canterbury

Popes

Kings of France

Contemporary Events

1301
to
1353

Edward I.

Winchelsey

Boniface VIII.

Philip IV.

Increaing power of English Parliament.

1302. Bull Unam Santcum

1303. Benedict XI.
[At Avignon.]

1303. Arrest of Boniface.	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Dante
		Petrach
		Boccaccio

1305. Clement V.

1305. Popes at Avignon.

1307. Edward II.

1307. Statute of Provisors (1).

 1311. Council of Vienne: Olivi condemned.

1313. Reynolds.

1314. Louis X.

1315. John I.

1316. John XXII.

1316. Philip V.

1320. Born (at Wycliff or Speswell?) Son of Roger and Catherine Wyclif.

1322. Franciscan Congregation at Perugia (for evangelical poverty).

1323. Charles IV.

 1324. Defensor Pacis written.

1327. Edward III.

1327. Simon Meopham

1328. Philip VI.

 1328. Lewis of Bavaria at Rome. Antipope Peter.

1333. English tribute to Rome suspended.

1334. Benedict XII.

1335. At a grammar school in Oxford?

1338. Scots and French Wars.

1340. John of Gaunt and Chaucer born? First lay Chancellor.

1342. Clement VI.

1343. Parliament petitions King against Papal provisions.

1346. Crécy.

1347. Rienzi's Revolution.

1348. John Ufford.

1349. Thomas Bradwine.

1349. Simon Islip.

1349. Worst visitation of the Plague. Flagellants come to the front.

1350. John II.

1350. Papal Jubilee: lavish gifts to the Church.

1351. Statute of Provisors.

1352. Innocent VI.

1352. Statutes of Labourers.

1353. Statute of Præmunire (1).

Probably heard Ockham, Bradwardine, and Fitzralph; and read Marsiglio and Cesena. Wyclif specially owns his obligations to Augustine and Grosteste. According to James he was a Doctor of Divinity soon after 1355?? Beneficed in Oxford?(James).