1348

Year 1348 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1348

* April 7 - Charles University is founded in Prague.
* June - Two ships enter the Bristol Channel and bring the bubonic plague to England.
* June 24 - The Black Death outbreak goes into full swing in Melcombe Regis (modern-day Weymouth, Dorset in England).
* July 6 - A Papal bull is issued by Pope Clement VI, protecting Jews against popular aggression during the Black Death epidemic.
* The Black Death epidemic spreads to central and western Europe.
* Emperor Sukō succeeds Emperor Komyo of Japan, making them the second and third of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders, respectively.
* Edward III of England creates the first English order of chivalry, the Order of the Garter.
* The Pskov Republic gains independence from the Novgorod Republic with the treaty of Bolotovo.
* The Black Death breaks out in Cairo.
* Estimation: Hangzhou in Mongolian China becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Cairo, capital of Mamluk Egypt. [http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm]
* A truce is observed between England and France until 1532.
* Gonville Hall, the forerunner of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge is founded.
* November 1 — The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro because they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".

Births

* John Fitzalan, 1st Lord Arundel (d. 1379)

Deaths

*February 2 - Narymunt, Prince of Pinsk
*June 9 - Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (b. 1290)
*August 23 - John de Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury
*December 2 - Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan (b. 1297)
*"date unknown"
**Laura, beloved of Petrarch (b. 1310)
**Pietro Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (b. 1280)
**Giovanni Villani, chronicler of Florence (b. c. 1276)