1300s
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| Millennia: | 2nd millennium |
| Centuries: | 13th century - 14th century - 15th century |
| Decades: | 1270s 1280s 1290s - 1300s - 1310s 1320s 1330s |
| Years: | 1300 1301 1302 1303 1304 1305 1306 1307 1308 1309 |
| Categories: | Births - Deaths - Architecture Establishments - Disestablishments |
[edit] Events and trends
- 1299 - Osman I founds the Ottoman Empire, initially one of ten Gazi Emirates emerging after the collapse of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum.
- 1308 - Avignon Papacy established, which splits and weakens the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1325 - Founding of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan when a tribe of Nahua settle on an island in Lake Texcoco.
- During the hajj of its ruler Mansa Musa, the Malian Empire conquers the Songhai city of Gao.
- 1336 - The Vijayanagara Empire is established in the Deccan; with the defeat of the Hoysala Empire by the Sultanate of Delhi it is the last major Hindu kingdom on the Indian subcontinent.
- 1339 - War declared between England and France, beginning of Hundred Years' War.
- 1348 - The Black Death begins to ravage Europe.
- King Edward III of England repudiates his kingdoms debts, leading to the collapse of the two largest Florentine banking houses.
- 1350 - Commencement of the reign of Hayam Wuruk, marking the height of the Hindu Majapahit kingdom, which rules over eastern Java and receives tribute from Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo.
- 1351 - Red Turban Rebellion erupts in southern China against the rule of the Mongol Yuan dynasty.
- 1356 - Golden Bull of 1356 transforms the Holy Roman Empire into a loose federation of independent states by expanding the power of the Prince-electors.
- 1360 - Treaty of Brétigny between England and France ends of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
- 1361 - Ottomans capture Edirne, the largest city in Thrace.
- 1364 - Battle of Auray ends the Breton War of Succession with the victory of the English backed claimant.
- 1368 - Founding of the Ming Dynasty ends Mongol rule over China. The dynasties founder, Red Turban leader Zhu Yuanzhang proclaims himselfHongwu Emperor in Nanjing, which he makes into the imperial capital.
- 1369 - Seeking to rebuild the Mongol Empire Timur conquers Greater Khorasan and Transoxania.
- When Edward the Black Prince defies Charles V of France the Hundred Years' War resumes' the Castile sides with France, Portugal sides with England
- 1371 - French forces recapture Poitiers.
- 1380 - United under the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the Russians defeat the Tataro-Mongol Golden Horde at the Battle of Kulikovo. This is the beginning of the end of Mongol rule over the Rus.
- 1389 - Ottomans defeat the Serbs at the Battle of Kosovo; the death of Prince Lazar marks the end of an independent Serbian Empire.
- 1391 - First Ottoman siege of Constantinople.
- 1396-At the Battle of Nicopolis, the Ottomans decisively defeat the last crusade of the Middle Ages, an attempt by the Hungarians under Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, and a Crusader army from France and England to lift the siege of Constantinople.
- 1397 - Completion of a new Confucian legal code in Ming China.
- Turku, the oldest city in Finland experiences rapid growth around the recently consecrated Cathedral of Turku
