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| c. 1225 |
| | The Teutonic knights undertake a new form of crusade, attempting to subdue the pagan Prussians who occupy part of the Baltic coast | |
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| c. 1250 |
| | Tannhäuser is one of the Minnesinger, the German equivalents of the French troubadours | |
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| 1254 |
| | The death of the last Hohenstaufen ruler, Conrad IV, leaves a vacancy on the German throne which is not filled for nineteen years | |
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| 1308 |
| | The Teutonic knights seize the coastal area round Gdansk, cutting off Poland's access to the sea | |
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| 1391 |
| | Construction begins on a canal from Lübeck south to the Elbe, linking the Baltic and the North Sea | |
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| c. 1397 |
| | The keyboard of the organ is adapted in Germany to strings, thus providing the harpsichord - first mentioned in a manuscript of this year | |
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| c. 1400 |
| | Guilds of singers and song-writers develop in German towns, calling themselves Meistersinger, or master singers | |
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| 1414 |
| | A council is called at Constance, to consider the radical views of John Huss and to deal with the present excess of popes | |
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| 1415 |
| | John Huss, invited to Constance under a promise of safe conduct, is arrested, tried and burnt at the stake as a heretic | |
| | Huss burnt Fotofile CG
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| 1417 |
| | The Council of Constance, having done its best to dispose of the three existing popes, elects a new one - Martin V | |
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