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AD 1324: Coup of Shōchūno (正中の変) – Emperor Go-Daigo's plan of overthrowing Kamakura Bakufu was discovered. The Bakufu's spies assulted Mino, made aristocrats who supported the coup to commit suicide and arrested multiple important people. Emperor was forced to forgo his plan.
 
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AD 1325: November 21 – Yuri III Danilovich, Grand Duke of Moscow, is assassinated by Dmitry of Tver, Grand Duke of Vladimir, nicknamed "the Terrible Eyes". Yuri's younger brother, Iván I Danilovich Kalitá, the Grand Duke of Vladimir, inherits Yuri's throne and relocates the spiritual capital of the Russian people to Moscow by directing the Metropolitan Peter to move his episcopal see from Kiev. The decision of both Ivan and Peter to relocate gradually makes Moscow the political center of Russia.
 
AD 1326: Novgorod and Norway signed a peace treaty, setting a buffer zone in the disputed territory of Finnmark.
 
AD 1328: King of England Edward III signed the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton with Robert the Bruce, recognizing the independence of Scotland. The First Anglo-Scottish War ended.
 
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AD 1327: In China, the Grand Canal, which runs from Beijing to Hangzhou over a distance of 1,800 km, is completed.
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The length of the Grand Canal in Yuán Dynasty is disputed. The Grand Canal was built on the basis of canals from Suí & Táng Dynasties, which had a distance of 2,700 km and included many winding parts. Engineers in Yuán Dynasty straightened those parts. Through constructing 900 km of new canals, the total length was reduced to 1,800 km. That is to say, the actual workload was 900 km, but the Canal was effectively 1,800 km.
 
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AD 1329: August 4 – Wittelsbach possessions are divided by the Treaty of Pavia into those of the Bavarian line and those of Palatinate line. Both lines will be reunited in 1777.
 
AD 1330: In the Battle of Velbazhd (nowadays known as Kyustendil), the Kingdom of Bulgaria was defeated by Serbs and Tsar Michael Shishman was wounded. The Serbs entered Macedonia as Bulgaria was unable to effectively control it.
 
AD 1332: December 16 – Battle of Annan: The loyalists of David II defeat Edward Balliol in Scotland. The city of Marosvásárhely (in Transylvania, today Târgu Mureș in Romania) is first documented in the papal registry, under the name Novum Forum Siculorum.
 
AD 1333: Emperor Go-Daigo made his third attempt to overthrow the Bakufu. Rebels from all across Japan led by Nitta Yoshisada entered the city of Kamakura in May. More than 6000 people loyal to the Bakufu commited suicide. Kamakura Bakufu fell. Japan entered the Northern and Southern Courts period (Nambokuchō period) as there were two rivaling emperors coexisting at the same time, Go-Daigo at the south and Kōgon at the north.
 
AD 1334: July 18 – The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundational stone laid for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral (the tower was designed by the artist Giotto).
 
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AD 1335: December 1 – Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan dies, a victim of the plague that ravages the Ilkhanate. This is an early outbreak of the Black Death. His death without a clear heir causes the Ilkhanate to disintegrate.
 
AD 1337: King of England Edward III claimed the title of King of France and sent armies to continental Europe. The Hundred Years' War began.
 
AD 1338: A Black Death plague strain originates near Lake Issyk-Kul in modern Kyrgyzstan, according to Syriac tombstone inscriptions and genetic material from exhumed bodies.
 
AD 1339: November – Fàn Mèng, a small civil servant in China, made a forged impedial decree and used it to trick many top government officials in Hénán Province (who were drunk at a banquet) into a house, murdering them all. Then he claimed himself as the "Marshal of Hénán" again with the help of forgery and ordered the total lockdown of Hénán Province. Loyalists soon found Fàn Mèng and terminated him, however after the imperial court knew about this turmoil, Yuán Dynasty started to purge all government officials in Hénán for their malpractice. Hénán Province fell into a state of pseudo-anarchy; the government ceased functioning because the majority of officials were busy escaping from the purge.
 
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AD 1340: June 24 - Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys – The English fleet, under the command of Edward III of England, battles the French fleet, under that of Admiral Hugues Quiéret and treasurer Nicolas Béhuchet, assisted by Genoese mercenary galleys under Egidio Bocanegra, on the Low Countries coast. The French fleet is virtually destroyed, and both of its commanders are killed.
 
AD 1341: Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) was given the title of poet laureate by Robert, King of Naples, becoming the first poet laureate in Late Middle Ages.
 
AD 1343: Yuán Dynasty finished the compilation and writing of official histories of the Sòng Dynasty, Khitan Empire and Jurchen Empire, 64 years after the falling of the last of them, Sòng.
 
AD 1344: March 26 – Reconquista: The Siege of Algeciras (1342–44), one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder is used, ends with the Muslim city of Algeciras surrendering and being incorporated into the Kingdom of Castile.
 
AD 1347: Charles University was founded in Prague by an order of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. It is the oldest university in continuous operation in Czechia.
 
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AD 1348: November 18 – Emperor Kōmyō of Japan abdicates the throne in favour of his son Emperor Sukō, making them the second and third of the Northern Court (Ashikaga Pretenders).
 
AD 1349: In Strasbourg, some 2,000 Jews were burned to death in an attempt to cleanse the Black Death.
 
AD 1350: May 23 (possible date) – Hook and Cod wars in the County of Holland: A number of nobles and progressive cities supporting William V, Count of Holland, in his power struggle with his mother Margaret I, Countess of Holland, found the Cod League and perhaps sign the Cod Alliance Treaty.
 
AD 1351: In China, the Red Turban Uprising began. Starting with only 3,000 peasants, the uprising soon developed into a total war against Yuán Dynasty in all provinces involving millions of people. Noteworthily, although the original leader of the uprising, Hán Shāntóng, was killed in as soon as May 1351, the war did not end as numerous new leaders emerged, including Liú Fútōng and Zhū Yuánzhāng; the latter would become the founder and first emperor of Míng Dynasty.
 
AD 1352: Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta reports the existence of the ngoni and balafon musical instruments, at the court of Mansa Musa.
 
AD 1353: Giovanni Boccaccio wrote the Decameron, one of the most important prose in Medieval times.
 
AD 1354: December 10 – The reign of John VI Kantakouzenos as Byzantine Emperor is ended, after John V Palaiologos retakes Constantinople and is restored as sole emperor.
 
AD 1355: Yuán Dynasty established multiple Executive Privy Councils (行樞密院) across China, aiming to contain the warfare of the Red Turban Uprising, but with little success.
 
AD 1357: In France, the États généraux led by Étienne Marcel passed the Great Ordinance of 1357 which limited the King's power on monetary and tax matters. However this was never implemented as the Jacquerie insurrection failed and Étienne Marcel was killed by the king.
 
AD 1358: March 16 – King Haakon VI of Norway designates the city of Skien as a city with trading privileges, making it the sixth town with city status in Norway.
 
AD 1359: The White Tower of Thousand Buddha was built in Xigazê, Tibet. It contains 3,000 statues of Maitreya Buddha and 1,000 statues of Sakyamuni.
 
AD 1360: August – Peace is concluded between Sweden and Denmark with the arbitration in Helsingborg. Magnus IV Eriksson cedes the Scanian lands except northern Halland to Denmark. In return, Valdemar IV Atterdag must help Magnus against his domestic enemies.
 
AD 1361: Zhū Yuánzhāng received the title "Duke of the State of Wú" from Hán Lín'ér, leader of the Red Turban Rebellion and Emperor of Hán Sòng. He was the first man in China's history to receive a peerage who was born as a beggar.
 
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