PEACH

World

Population: 374 Million*

General: Start "Age of Exploration"
Entertainment: Jean Forissart writes "Chronicles" which tells of world of chivalry
Art includes oil-based paint development Music includes first mention of the dulcimer
Religion: John Wyclyffe publishes English translation of the Bible
Science: Alchemy becomes more and more a field for swindlers
Technology: Printing press invented
Deaths: Geoffrey Chaucer, Richard II (murdered/self-inflicted starvation)

Mali decline under onslaughts of neighboring tribes
Tanzania: Engaruka community farms land in Tanzania
Zimbabwe: Kingdom of Great Zimbabwe in S Africa thrives on gold trade - Gold traded to Asia - start decline

Pueblo people abandon northern sites
Expansion of Aztec empire in Mexico - Start of empire of Tenochtitlan
Expansion of Inca
Development of Middle and Upper Mississippi phases of Mound-builders in N America

India: End of Delhi Sultanate in N India
Indonesia: Indonesian traders visit north cost of Australia regularly collecting sea slugs and sandalwood – traded as far as China
Mongolia: Mongol expansion through Mesopotamia and Northern India (Timur - Tamerlane)

General: Early Renaissance begins
Start of diminishment of Hanseatic League (of guilds) - 150 ports at this time
Turks conquer Baltic peninsula
Renaissance spreads north of Alps
Feudalism begins to disappear
Demand for wool sees arable land turn into sheep pastures
Illuminated manuscripts depicting common life made in Europe
Bohemia: Wenceslas IV deposed and succeeded by Rupert III of the Palatinate
Alt-Neu Synagogue in Prague
England: Henry IV suppresses rebellion of the barons
Richard II murdered at Pontefract Castle, or Richard I dies in prison from self-inflicted starvation
Earliest known literature written in Cornish tongue
German States: Isabeau of Bavaria – consort of King Charles VI of France uses facial concoction of boar brains, wolf blood, and crocodile glands
Holland: Windmilles used
Holy Roman Empire: End of Wenceslas IV HRE as he is deposed for drunkenness
Habsburgs elected to throne
Italian States: Ascent of the Medici in Florence
Flourishing of ecclesiastical drama in Italy
Start of Duchy of Massa and Carrara within modern Italy
Wales: Owen Glendower proclaims self Prince of Wales and begins rebellion