1341

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Years:
1340 1341 1342 - 1343 - 1344 1345 1346
Decades:
1310s 1320s 1330s - 1340s - 1350s 1360s 1370s
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.

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