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| c. 1300 |
| | | Tabriz under the Mongol Il-khans is the first centre of Persian miniature painting | |
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| 1303 |
| | | The Knights Templars withdraw from the island of Arwad, the last foothold of the crusaders in the Middle East | |
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| c. 1336 |
| | | A Hindu empire in southern India is established with its capital at Vijayanagara, meaning 'city of victory' | |
|  | Hampi, ancient capital of Vijayanagara
Photograph Josceline Dimbleby
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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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| 1338 |
| | | The first Dalai Lama dies in 1338 and is discovered to have been reincarnated in a boy born in 1340 | |
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| 1346 |
| | | The plague which later becomes known as the Black Death makes its first appearance in China | |
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| 1346 |
| | | Udiana Deva, the last Hindu ruler of Kashmir, is murdered by his Muslim prime minister | |
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| 1347 |
| | | Turkish tribes, besieging Genoese merchants in Caffa, lob the corpses of plague victims over the town walls and thus spread the Black Death | |
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| c. 1350 |
| | | The classic Chinese underglaze blue is perfected in the imperial ceramic factory at Jingdezhen | |
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| 1354 |
| | | Gallipoli is taken by the Ottoman Turks, giving them their first foothold in Europe | |
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