14th century in architecture
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[edit] Buildings
- c.1300 – Nidaros Cathedral is finished
- 1309 – Construction begins on the Doge's Palace in Venice (completed in 1424).
- 1327 – Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu, designed by Abu Es Haq es Saheli is completed.
- 1344: November 21 – St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague founded.
- 1360 – Work begins on City Wall of Nanjing (Ming Dynasty, China)
- 1377 – Ulm Cathedral begun under Ulrich von Ensinger (1377)
- c.1382 – Work is begun on a new Nave of Canterbury Cathedral by master mason Henry Yevele
- c.1385 – In Milan, Archbishop Antonio da Saluzzo and statesman Gian Galeazzo Visconti initiate a project to design and build a new Cathedral; beginning with the demolition of buildings previously at that site (the palace of the Archbishop, the Ordinari Palace, and the Baptistry of 'St. Stephen at the Spring'). The old church of Sta. Maria Maggiore is quarried for stone. The exterior of the new Milan Cathedral will not be fully completed until nearly six centuries later; with the last external gate being finished in the 1960s.
- 1386 – The City Wall of Nanjing is completed. The south gate of the wall, known as the Gate of China, is considered to be the city gate with the most complex structure in the world.
- 1400 – Canterbury Cathedral Nave is completed.
[edit] Births
- 1377 - Filippo Brunelleschi born in Florence (died 1446)
- 1386 - Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi) born in Florence (died 1466)
- 1391 - Michelozzo born in Florence (died 1472?)
[edit] Deaths
- January 8, 1337 - Giotto di Bondone (born 1267)