1347

Years: 1344 1345 1346 - 1347 - 1348 1349 1350

Decades: 1310s 1320s 1330s - 1340s - 1350s 1360s 1370s

Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century

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Illustration of the Black Death from the Toggenburg Bible (1411).

Events

• The Black Death ravages Europe (1347-1351)
• Roman Commoner Cola di Rienzo proclaims himself a new Roman dictator in Capitoline Hill in Rome; Pope Clement VI denounces him as a pagan and a heretic and he is driven out of the city by the end of the year

Births

• March 25 - Catherine of Siena, lay-affiliate of the Dominican Order (died 1380)
• Eleanor of Arborea, ruler of Sardinia (died 1404)

Deaths

• October 11 - Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1282)
• Adam Murimuth, English ecclesiastic and chronicler (born 1274)
• John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey (born 1286)