Editing 14th century (section)

== [[1340s]] ==
[[Image:Burying Plague Victims of Tournai.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Burying coffins of [[Black Death]] victims in [[Tournai]].]]
* [[1343]]–[[1345]]: In [[Saint George's Night Uprising]], pagan [[Estonians]] launch a last large-scale attempt to rid themselves of the non-indigenous Christian religion.
* 1345–[[1346]]: The French recruit troops and ships in [[Genoa]], [[Monaco]], and [[Nice]].
* 1346: English forces led by Edward III defeat a French army led by [[Philip VI of France]] in The [[Battle of Crécy]], a major point in the Hundred Years' War which marks the rise of the [[longbow]] as a dominant weapon in Western Europe.
* 1346: King [[Valdemar IV of Denmark]] sells the [[Duchy of Estonia (1219–1346)|Duchy of Estonia]] to the [[Teutonic Order]].
* [[1347]]–[[1351]]: The [[Black Death]] kills around a third of the population of Europe.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Howard |first=Jenny |date=2020-07-06 |title=Plague was one of history's deadliest diseases—then we found a cure |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-plague|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305102437/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-plague|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 5, 2021|access-date=2022-08-27 |website=National Geographic |language=en}}</ref>
* 1347: [[Adityawarman]] moved the capital of [[Dharmasraya]] and established the kingdom of Malayupura in [[Pagarruyung]], West Sumatra.<ref>Kern, J.H.C., (1907), ''De wij-inscriptie op het Amoghapāça-beeld van Padang Candi(Batang Hari-districten); 1269 Çaka'', Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde.</ref>
* [[1348]]: The 6.9-magnitude [[1348 Friuli earthquake]] centered in [[Northern Italy]] was felt across Europe. Contemporaries linked the quake with the [[Crisis of the Late Middle Ages|Black Death and Great Famine]], fueling fears that the Biblical Apocalypse had arrived.