1341
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Years: 1340 1341 1342 - 1343 - 1344 1345 1346 |
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Decades: 1310s 1320s 1330s - 1340s - 1350s 1360s 1370s |
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Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century |
[edit] Events
- The Queen's College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is founded.
- Petrarch is crowned poet laureate in Rome, the first man since antiquity to be given this honor.
- Beginning of the Breton War of Succession over the control of the Duchy of Brittany
- Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, expels her husband John Henry of Bohemia, to whom she had been married as a child. She subsequently marries Louis of Bavaria without having been divorced, which results in the excommunication of the couple.