1349

This article is about the year 1349. For the Norwegian black metal band, see 1349 (band).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1310s  1320s  1330s  – 1340s –  1350s  1360s  1370s
Years:	1346 1347 1348 – 1349 – 1350 1351 1352

1349 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1349 in poetry

1349 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1349 MCCCXLIX
Ab urbe condita	2102
Armenian calendar	798 ԹՎ ՉՂԸ
Assyrian calendar	6099
Bengali calendar	756
Berber calendar	2299
English Regnal year	22 Edw. 3 – 23 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1893
Burmese calendar	711
Byzantine calendar	6857–6858
Chinese calendar	戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4045 or 3985     — to — 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 4046 or 3986
Coptic calendar	1065–1066
Discordian calendar	2515
Ethiopian calendar	1341–1342
Hebrew calendar	5109–5110
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1405–1406
- Shaka Samvat	1271–1272
- Kali Yuga	4450–4451
Holocene calendar	11349
Igbo calendar	349–350
Iranian calendar	727–728
Islamic calendar	749–750
Japanese calendar	Jōwa 5 (貞和５年)
Julian calendar	1349 MCCCXLIX
Korean calendar	3682
Minguo calendar	563 before ROC 民前563年
Thai solar calendar	1891–1892

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 in L'Aquila kills 800.
• February 14 – Roughly 2,000 Jews are burned to death during the Strasbourg massacre.
• March 21 – The bulk of the 900 strong Jewish community of Erfurt (Germany) is murdered by the rest of the population which accuses the minority to be the underlying cause of the Black Death.
• May – The Black Death ceases in Ireland.
• August 24 – The Black Death breaks out in Elbing (Poland).
• October 20 – Pope Clement VI publishes a papal bull that condemns the Flagellants.

Date unknown

• The Black Death spreads to Norway when an English ship with everyone dead on board floats to Bergen.
• 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.
• The Black Death breaks out in Mecca.
• Ibn Battuta arrives in Fez in Morocco.
• An earthquake in Rome causes extensive damage, including the collapse of the southern exterior facade of the Colosseum.

• Earthquake in England strikes Meaux Abbey

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, a semi-legendary Russian saint (d. 1444)

Deaths

• 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 25 – James III of Majorca (b. 1315)
• 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)
• 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)