1347
| Years: 1344 1345 1346 - 1347 - 1348 1349 1350 | |
| Decades: 1310s 1320s 1330s - 1340s - 1350s 1360s 1370s | |
| Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century | |
| 1347 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1347 MCCCXLVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2100 |
| Armenian calendar | 796 ԹՎ ՉՂԶ |
| Chinese calendar | 3983/4043-11-20 (丙戌年十一月二十日) — to — 3984/4044-11-29(丁亥年十一月廿九日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1339 – 1340 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5107 – 5108 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1402 – 1403 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1269 – 1270 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4448 – 4449 |
| Iranian calendar | 725 – 726 |
| Islamic calendar | 748 – 749 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1890 |
Contents |
Events
- The Black Death ravages Europe (1347-1351)
- Roman Commoner Cola di Rienzo proclaims himself a new Roman dictator in Capitoline Hill in Rome; Pope Clement VI denounces him as a pagan and a heretic and he is driven out of the city by the end of the year
- Hundred Years War: English defeat the French at the Battle of Croytoye.
- John VI Kantakouzenos becomes joint Byzantine Emperor after civil war with the regency of the young Emperor John V Palaiologos.
Births
- March 25 - Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (died 1380)
- Eleanor of Arborea, ruler of Sardinia (died 1404)
Deaths
- October 11 - Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1282)
- Adam Murimuth, English ecclesiastic and chronicler (born 1274)
- John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey (born 1286)
- Hazrat Shah Jalal, sufi saint of Bengal (born 1271)
- Saint Flora, Catholic patroness of abandoned convents, single women & victims of betrayal
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