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Year 1349 (MCCCIL) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 9 – The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland is rounded up and incinerated, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death.
• January 22 – An earthquake affects L'Aquila in southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), causing severe damage, and leaving 2,000 dead.
• February 14 – Strasbourg massacre: roughly 2,000 Jews are burned to death, believed by the residents to be the cause of the Black Death.
• March 21 – Erfurt massacre: a pogram in which the Jewish community of Erfurt (Germany) is murdered and expelled, believed by the residents to be the cause of the Black Death.
• March 27 – An earthquake in England strikes Meaux Abbey.
• May – The Black Death ceases in Ireland.
• May 28 – In Breslau, Silesia, 60 Jews are murdered, following a disastrous fire which destroys part of the city.
• August 24 – The Black Death breaks out in Elbing (Poland).
• September 9 – An earthquake in Rome causes extensive damage, including the collapse of the southern exterior facade of the Colosseum.
• October 20 – Pope Clement VI publishes a papal bull that condemns the Flagellants.
• November 8 – Ibn Battuta arrives in Fez, Morocco.
• November 17 – Pope Clement VI annuls the marriage of William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, and Joan of Kent, on the grounds of her prior marriage to Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent.
• December 22 – The rise of Alexios III of Trebizond to the throne ends the Trapezuntine Civil Wars.

Ongoing

• The Black Death spreads to Norway, when an English ship with everyone dead on board floats to Bergen. It also breaks out in Mecca and is prevalent in the Île-de-France and the Kingdom of Navarre.

Births

• September 9 – Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
• date unknown
  • Friar John, Minister of the Friars Preachers of Ireland (alive 1405)
  • Venerable Macarius of Yellow Lake and Unzha, semi-legendary Russian saint (d. 1444)

Deaths

• April 3 – Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1295)
• May 31 – Thomas Wake, English politician (b. 1297)
• June – Friar John Clyn, Franciscan and Irish chronicler
• June 14 – Günther von Schwarzburg, German king (b. 1304)
• August 26 – Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury
• September 11 – Bonne of Luxembourg, queen of John II of France (b. 1315)
• October 6 – Joan II of Navarre, daughter of Louis X of France (b. 1311)
• October 25 – James III of Majorca (b. 1315)
• November 18 – Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1310)
• date unknown
  • Hamdollah Mostowfi, Persian historian and geographer (b. 1281)
  • Richard Rolle, English religious writer (b. 1300)
• probable – William of Ockham, English philosopher (b. 1285)

References

1. "Jewish History Sourcebook: The Black Death and the Jews 1348-1349 CE". New York: Fordham University. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
2. Lemaître, Frédéric (September 19, 2011). "Erfurt, ses juifs et l'UNESCO". Le Monde (in French). Paris. Retrieved September 19, 2011.
3. "This Month in Jewish History - Sivan". Torahtots.com. Retrieved July 20, 2017.

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