Fourteenth-century chronology

Edward III Richard II Henry IV

1300 1327 1337 1340 1349 1362 1377 1378 1380 1381 1399
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between England and The Black Death The Great Schism.
France on account of 1309

possessions in France. in Avignon (France).

1378: Two Popes, until
1417.
1346: Battle of Crécy;
Order of the Garter.

1453 War ends. Ca. 1340 Geoffrey

Chaucer is born.
(d. 1400)
English becomes the language 1380: The Bible translated
of the law-courts. In 1363 into English.
Parliament is opened in English. John Wycliffe: ca. 1320 1384.
Lollards.

Translation of large parts of the Roman de la Rose (or. 1239 1275) 1382 85 Troilus and Cryseide
1369 The Book of the Duchess 1385 86 The Legend of Good Women
ca. 1375 The House of Fame 1387 1400 The Canterbury Tales
ca. 1380 The Parliament of Fowls (Birds) Apart from those, a few narrative poems,
ca. 1383 Translation of Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae (or. 524) lyrical poetry, and one or two handbooks
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