The poet Dante, author of the Divine Comedy, dies in exile at Ravenna; his work helped shape literary Italian.
Date given in the Julian calendar.
Dante Alighieri completes the Divine Comedy, a masterpiece of Italian and medieval European literature.
Successive crop failures caused by bad weather bring mass famine to northern Europe, killing a significant share of the population.
Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats the army of Edward II of England, a key victory in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
A series of conflicts between England and France over the French throne ends with England losing nearly all its continental lands.
Edward III's English army, relying on longbowmen, defeats a much larger French army in northern France.
Plague arrives at Messina, Sicily, on merchant ships and spreads across Europe, killing roughly a third of its population.