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| 1296 |
| | | Edward I invades Scotland, massacres the people of Berwick, captures John de Balliol and brings to Westminster the Stone of Scone | |
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| 1298 |
| | | Edward I's victory at Falkirk ends the career of William Wallace, of whom nothing more is heard until his capture and execution in 1305 | |
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| 1307 |
| | | The English king Edward I dies campaigning near Carlisle, on an expedition north against his Scottish rival Robert the Bruce | |
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| 1315 |
| | | The Swiss, defeating the Habsburgs at Morgarten, make lethal use of their halberds - designed to jab, grapple and slash | |
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| 1328 |
| | | When Charles IV dies, for the first time in more than 400 years of the Capetian dynasty there is no son or brother to inherit the French crown | |
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| 1328 |
| | | A French cousin, Philip of Valois, is selected to succeed Charles IV - in preference to an English cousin, Edward III | |
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| 1337 |
| | | Philip VI of France confiscates Guienne, a fief belonging to Edward III of England - whose response begins the Hundred Years' War | |
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| 1338 |
| | | A new dynasty, the Ashikaga shogunate, comes into power after a member of the family, Takauji, wins a civil war | |
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| 1340 |
| | | Edward III, in Ghent, publicly assumes the title and the arms of the king of France | |
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| 1346 |
| | | The more mobile English force, of longbows and infantry, defeats at Crécy the unwieldy crossbows and heavy cavalry of the French | |
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