1349

• 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.
• Jews are burned to death.^[1]
• 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]
• 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.
• 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

• 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

• February 26 – Fatima bint al-Ahmar, Nasrid princess in the Emirate of Granada (b. c.1260)
• Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1295
  )
• May 31 – Thomas Wake, English politician (b. 1297)
• June – John Clyn, Irish Franciscan friar and chronicler
• June 14 – Günther von Schwarzburg, German king (b. 1304)
• August 26 – Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury
• September 11 – Bonne of Luxembourg, queen of John II of France (b. 1315)
• September 30 – Richard Rolle, English religious writer (b. c.1300)
• October 6 – Joan II of Navarre, daughter of Louis X of France (b. 1311)
• October 25 – James III of Majorca (b. 1315)
• November 18 – Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1310)
• date unknown – Hamdallah Mustawfi, Persian historian and geographer (b. 1281)
• probable – William of Ockham, English philosopher (b. 1285)

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