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| c. 1300 |
| | | The Italian communes employ powerful leaders, or signori, in a trend which leads away from oligarchy and towards princely rule | |
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| c. 1300 |
| | | The bankers of northern Italy develop a method of accountancy - double-entry book-keeping - which will have lasting significance | |
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| c. 1300 |
| | | Duns Scotus, known as the Subtle Doctor in medieval times, later provides humanists with the name Dunsman or dunce | |
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| 1301 |
| | | Edward I, conqueror of Wales, bestows the cherished title 'prince of Wales' on his own heir, the future Edward II | |
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| 1301 |
| | | Andrew III of Hungary dies without an heir, bringing to an end four centuries of rule by the descendants of Arpad | |
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| 1302 |
| | | The estates-general of France gather for the first time, in Notre Dame, to consider the king's relationship with the pope | |
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| 1302 |
| | | Dante, a member of the White faction in Florence, is sentenced to death by the Blacks - and never returns to his native city | |
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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. 1305 |
| | | Enrico degli Scrovegni employs Giotto to paint the cycle of frescoes in his chapel in Padua | |
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| 1306 |
| | | After the murder of his rival, in a church in Dumfries, Robert de Bruce is crowned king of Scots at Scone | |
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| 1306 |
| | | Robert de Bruce, in hiding on the island of Rathlin, is supposedly given a lesson in perseverance by a spider | |
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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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| 1307 |
| | | On the death of his father, Edward I, Edward II becomes king of England | |
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| c. 1307 |
| | | Dante, in exile from Florence, begins work on The Divine Comedy - completing it just before his death, 14 years later | |
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| 1308 |
| | | The cathedral authorities in Siena commission from Duccio the great altarpiece which becomes known as the Maestà | |
|  | Duccio Crucifixion (detail)
Manchester City Museum and Art Gallery
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| 1308 |
| | | The Teutonic knights seize the coastal area round Gdansk, cutting off Poland's access to the sea | |
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| 1309 |
| | | Clement V moves the papacy to Avignon, in a move which is expected to be temporary but which lasts for nearly seventy years | |
|  | Avignon
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| 1309 |
| | | The hiatus on the Hungarian throne ends when the Angevin contender is crowned as Charles I | |
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| 1309 |
| | | The Knights of St John capture the island of Rhodes, which they rule as their own sovereign state for more than two centuries | |
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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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| 1314 |
| | | After years of guerilla warfare, Robert de Bruce defeats the English conclusively at Bannockburn - and becomes at last secure in his kingdom | |
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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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| 1315 |
| | | Islam replaces Christianity as the religion of the kings of Dongola, in present-day Sudan | |
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| 1316 |
| | | Edward Bruce is crowned king of Ireland at Dundalk, but his uprising ends two years later when he is killed in battle with the English | |
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| c. 1320 |
| | | In places such as Siena and Orvieto, Italian architects add a blaze of colour to the more restrained northern pattern of Gothic | |
|  | Orvieto, Cathedral
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| c. 1320 |
| | | Philippe de Vitry, in his Ars Nova ('New Art'), lays out the basis of musical notation | |
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| c. 1320 |
| | | Florence becomes a centre of international finance, with the Bardi and Peruzzi families acting as bankers to Europe's rulers | |
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| 1320 |
| | | The leading role of Schwyz in the victory at Morgarten causes the independent cantons to become informally known as the Swiss confederation | |
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| 1320 |
| | | Wladyslaw I is crowned king of Poland in Cracow, which he makes his capital city | |
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| 1323 |
| | | A treaty divides Finland between two powerfully competitive neighbours, Sweden and Novgorod | |
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| 1324 |
| | | Mansa Musa, sultan of the gold-rich African state of Mali, is so lavish in Cairo (on his way to Mecca) that the value of Egyptian gold slumps | |
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| 1325 |
| | | Ibn Batutah leaves his home in Morocco to go on pilgrimage to Mecca, and continues travelling for 24 years | |
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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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| 1326 |
| | | Edward II is captured and imprisoned by his queen, Isabella, and her lover, Mortimer | |
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