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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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| 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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| 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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| 1347 |
| | | The English siege of Calais ends when six burghers of the town, with ropes around their necks, offer their lives to save their fellow citizens | |
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| c. 1350 |
| | | Armies of mercenaries, led by condottieri, conduct Italian warfare at an often extortionate rate | |
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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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| 1380 |
| | | The Venetian blockade of Chioggia costs Genoa her fleet and ends Genoese rivalry with Venice in the eastern Mediterranean | |
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| 1383 |
| | | Timur begins twenty years of almost continuous conquest with the capture and destruction of Herat | |
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| 1384 |
| | | Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the signore of Milan, sets about enlarging his territory - seizing Vicenza, Verona and Padua between 1384 and 1388 | |
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| 1398 |
| | | Timur devastates Delhi and loots treasure to take back to Samarkand on 120 elephants | |
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