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| c. 1300 |
| | | The formalities of the Tea Ceremony demand equivalently exquisite wares from the Japanese potters | |
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Charles Peel
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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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| c. 1347 |
| | | Edward III establishes a new kind of knighthood with the Order of the Garter, conferred purely as an honour | |
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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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| 1348 |
| | | The Black Death, making its way through Europe, is described in vivid detail by Boccaccio who sees its devastating effect in Florence | |
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| c. 1450 |
| | | Coffee, derived from wild plants in Ethiopia, is cultivated in Arabia | |
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| c. 1480 |
| | | The name of Constantinople changes to Istanbul, a word based on the everyday Greek name for the city | |
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| 1497 |
| | | Savonarola, in the carnival before Lent, urges the people of Florence to throw playing cards and lewd images on a great bonfire of vanities | |
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| 1498 |
| | | The Florentine mob, weary of puritanism, attacks the convent of San Marco and drags Savonarola away to be hanged and burnt | |
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| 1525 |
| | | Luther, a former friar, marries Catherine von Bora, a former nun who has just emerged from her convent | |
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