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| 1356 |
| | | Zhu Yuanzhang, a one-time Buddhist novice now leading a major rebellion against the Yuan dynasty, captures Nanjing and makes it his capital | |
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| 1358 |
| | | Edward III begins to transform a royal manor by the Thames at Richmond into a building that can for the first time be called a palace | |
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| 1359 |
| | | John of Gaunt marries his cousin, Blanche of Lancaster, heiress to vast estates in the north of England | |
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| 1360 |
| | | After four years of captivity in Bordeaux and London, the French king John II is released for a promised ransom of 3 million gold crowns | |
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| 1362 |
| | | Edward III gives his son, John of Gaunt, the title duke of Lancaster | |
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| 1364 |
| | | A great clock is completed in Padua, regulated mechanically by foliot and escapement | |
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| c. 1365 |
| | | Portable guns are introduced not long after artillery, being mentioned in several European texts of the second half of the fourteenth century | |
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| c. 1367 |
| | | A narrator who calls himself Will, and whose name may be Langland, begins the epic poem of Piers Plowman | |
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| 1367 |
| | | One of four new yeomen of the chamber in Edward III's household is Geoffrey Chaucer | |
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| 1367 |
| | | Henry, son of John of Gaunt, is born in Bolingbroke castle and so becomes known as Henry of Bolingbroke | |
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