1349

Year 1349 (MCCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1349 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1349
MCCCXLIX
Ab urbe condita2102
Armenian calendar798
ԹՎ ՉՂԸ
Assyrian calendar6099
Balinese saka calendar1270–1271
Bengali calendar756
Berber calendar2299
English Regnal year22 Edw. 3  23 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar1893
Burmese calendar711
Byzantine calendar6857–6858
Chinese calendar戊子年 (Earth Rat)
4045 or 3985
     to 
己丑年 (Earth Ox)
4046 or 3986
Coptic calendar1065–1066
Discordian calendar2515
Ethiopian calendar1341–1342
Hebrew calendar5109–5110
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1405–1406
 - Shaka Samvat1270–1271
 - Kali Yuga4449–4450
Holocene calendar11349
Igbo calendar349–350
Iranian calendar727–728
Islamic calendar749–750
Japanese calendarJōwa 5
(貞和5年)
Javanese calendar1261–1262
Julian calendar1349
MCCCXLIX
Korean calendar3682
Minguo calendar563 before ROC
民前563年
Nanakshahi calendar−119
Thai solar calendar1891–1892
Tibetan calendar阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
1475 or 1094 or 322
     to 
阴土牛年
(female Earth-Ox)
1476 or 1095 or 323

Events

JanuaryDecember

  • January 22 An earthquake affects L'Aquila in southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), causing severe damage, and leaving 2,000 dead.
  • February 14 Jewish persecutions during the Black Death: Strasbourg massacre Because they are believed by the residents to be the cause of the Black Death, roughly 2,000 Jews are burned to death.[1]
  • February 19 Jewish persecutions during the Black Death: The entire Jewish community in the remote German village of Saulgau is wiped out.[2]
  • March 21 Jewish persecutions during the Black Death: Erfurt massacre The Jewish community of Erfurt (Germany) is murdered and expelled in a pogrom.[3]
  • March 27 An earthquake in England strikes Meaux Abbey.
  • May The Black Death ceases in Ireland.
  • May 28 In Breslau, Silesia, 60 Jews are murdered following a disastrous fire which destroys part of the city.[4]
  • August 24 The Black Death breaks out in Elbing (Poland).
  • September 9 1349 Apennine earthquakes. An earthquake in Rome causes extensive damage, including the collapse of the southern exterior facade of the Colosseum.
  • October 20 Pope Clement VI publishes a papal bull that condemns the Flagellants.
  • November 8 Ibn Battuta arrives in Fez, Morocco.
  • November 17 Pope Clement VI annuls the marriage of William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, and Joan of Kent, on the grounds of her prior marriage to Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent.
  • December 22 The rise of Alexios III of Trebizond to the throne ends the Trapezuntine Civil Wars.

Ongoing

  • The Black Death in England spreads to the north and a ship from England carries it to Askøy and Bjørgvin (modern-day Bergen) in Norway.[5] The disease also breaks out in Mecca and is prevalent in the Île-de-France and the Kingdom of Navarre.

Births

  • September 9 Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
  • date unknown
    • Friar John, Minister of the Friars Preachers of Ireland (alive 1405)
    • Venerable Macarius of Yellow Lake and Unzha, semi-legendary Russian saint (d. 1444)

Deaths

References

  1. "Jewish History Sourcebook: The Black Death and the Jews 1348-1349 CE". New York: Fordham University. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  2. "This Month in Jewish History - Shvat". Torahtots.com. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  3. Lemaître, Frédéric (September 19, 2011). "Erfurt, ses juifs et l'UNESCO". Le Monde (in French). Paris. Retrieved September 19, 2011.
  4. "This Month in Jewish History - Sivan". Torahtots.com. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  5. Benedictow, Ole Jørgen (2006). The Black Death, 1346-1353: The Complete History. Boydell Press. pp. 154–155. ISBN 9781843832140.
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