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| Years: 1338 1339 1340 - 1341 - 1342 1343 1344 | |
| Decades: 1310s 1320s 1330s - 1340s - 1350s 1360s 1370s | |
| Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century | |
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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.
Births
- June 5 - Edmund of Langley, son of King Edward III of England (died 1402)
- November 10 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408)
- Qu You, Chinese novelist (died 1427)
Deaths
- April 30 - John III, Duke of Brittany (born 1286)
- June 15 - Andronicus III Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor
- August 28 - King Leo V of Armenia (murdered) (born 1309)
- Gediminas, Duke of Lithuania
- Uzbeg Khan, Khan of the Golden Horde (born 1312)
- Al-Nasr Muhammad, Sultan of Egypt (born 1295)
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