Events in Science & History
14th Century
1300s
About 1300:
Beginning of the Ottoman Empire which will rule a large part of the Mediterraniean
and Middle East until 1923.
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1305: Giovanni Pisano completes
his sculpture, the Madonna and Child.
1307: Dante starts work
on his Devine Comedy.
1310s
About 1310:
First mechanical clocks in Europe.
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1311: Notre Dame Cathedral
completed in Paris.
1314: Battle of Banockbum.
1320s
1330s
1331: Black
Death emerges in China and eventually spreads to Europe.
1338: Beginning of the 'Hundred
Years War' between England and France.
1340s
1350s
1350: Jean
Buridan develops the idea of 'impatus', a forerunner of the modern concept of
inertia. He rejects the idea that planets and other 'heavenly bodies' are
pushed along by angels, and says that imperius is all that is needed to do the
job. Black Death (plague) in Europe
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1356: First use of cannon
in warfare, in China.
1360s
1366: Petrarch
writes Canzoniere.
1370s.
1380s
1386: Heidelberg
University founded.
1388: Claucer starts work
on The Canterbury Tales.
1388: Claucer writes Troilus
and Criseyde.
1390s
1398: Delhi
destroyed by Tamburlaine.
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