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| 1310 |
| | | Fifty-four Knights Templars are burned at the stake, during the campaign of the French king to destroy the order | |
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| 1315 |
| | | Islam replaces Christianity as the religion of the kings of Dongola, in present-day Sudan | |
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| 1326 |
| | | Moscow acquires new prestige when the metropolitan (or patriarch) of the Russian Orthodox church moves his residence from Vladimir | |
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| 1329 |
| | | A friar, who has failed to find Prester John in the east, publishes a book proving that the fabulous king lives in Ethiopia | |
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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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| 1348 |
| | | Massacres of Jews, rumoured to have caused the Black Death by poisoning wells, begin in southern France and spread through much of Europe | |
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| c. 1376 |
| | | John Wycliffe, writing mainly in Oxford, is critical of the contemporary church and can find no basis for the pope's authority | |
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| 1377 |
| | | The papal curia returns to Rome in what would seem a conclusive move if there were not, two years later, two popes - one of them elected back in Avignon | |
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| 1379 |
| | | The French cardinals, objecting to the new Italian pope, elect their own man as Clement VII - and thus inaugurate the Great Schism of the papacy | |
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| 1386 |
| | | Jogaila, baptized a Roman Catholic before marrying Jadwiga, brings Lithuania into the Christian fold - the last part of Europe to be converted | |
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