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* The [[Hanseatic League]], a trading alliance between many cities in northern Europe, first meets.
* Sweden's first guild privileges (for tailors) are issued in [[Stockholm]].<ref>Lindström, Dag. 1991. Skrå, stad och stat. Stockholm, Malmö och Bergen ca 1350-1622. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Uppsala.</ref>
* Ghazan II replaces [[Anushirwan]] as ruler of the [[Ilkhanate]] in [[Persia]].
* [[Zhu Yuanzhang]], one of the leaders in the [[Red Turban Rebellion]], captures the city of [[Nanjing]] from the [[Mongol]]-led [[Yuan dynasty]] in China; from then on it becomes his base of power, and the capital of a new dynasty he would establish in [[1368]], the [[Ming dynasty]].<ref>Ebrey (1999), 191.</ref>
* The majority of the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]]'s limestone casing stones are removed by [[Bahri dynasty|Bahri Sultan]] [[An-Nasir Hasan]], to build [[fortress]]es and [[mosque]]s in the nearby city of [[Cairo]], leaving the first of the [[Seven Wonders of the Ancient World]] in the step-stone condition in which it remains into modern times.
* The [[Castelvecchio Bridge]] in [[Verona]] is probably completed this year; its main span of {{convert|48.7|m|ft|abbr=on}} is the world's longest arch at this time.</onlyinclude>