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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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| 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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| 1356 |
| | | The battle of Poitiers ends, on the third day, with victory for the English and the capture of the French king, John II | |
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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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| 1369 |
| | | The marriage of the duke of Burgundy to the heiress of Flanders lays the foundation for the great territorial expansion of Burgundy | |
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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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| 1392 |
| | | Charles VI, king of France, suffers the first of many violent fits of madness | |
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| 1395 |
| | | Philip II of Burgundy commissions from Netherlands sculptor Claus Sluter a work, the Well of Moses, which launches the northern Renaissance | |
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