Statistics for 14th Century Events

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This quiz has been taken 14 times
The average score is 33 of 100

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1309	The seat of the papacy moves from Rome to this French city	Avignon	92%
1303	This European sea unusually freezes over entirely, as the Little Ice Age begins	Baltic	92%
1305	This iconic Scottish leader is hung, drawn and quartered in London	William Wallace	92%
1347	This deadly pandemic arrives in Europe	Black Death	85%
1352	Foundation of Corpus _______ College at the University of Cambridge	Christi	85%
1301	This Florentine poet is sent as an emissary to Rome	Dante Alighieri	77%
1337	Beginning of the _______ _____ War	Hundred Years'	77%
1364	The foundation of this university, the oldest in Poland	Jagiellonian University	77%
1348	Blamed for the pandemic, these people are violently persecuted across Europe	Jews	77%
1307	Members of this Catholic military order are arrested across France	Knights Templar	77%
1314	The English are defeated at this battle, the most celebrated in Scottish history	Bannockburn	69%
1312	Genoese explorer Lancelotto Malocello becomes the first European to visit these islands since antiquity	Canary Islands	69%
1377	This office returns to Rome from Avignon	Papacy	69%
1320	Dante Alighieri completes this long narrative poem	The Divine Comedy	69%
1355	Dozens are killed in a violent conflict between students and townspeople in this city	Oxford	62%
1310	The Knights Hospitaller complete their conquest of this Mediterranean island	Rhodes	62%
1306	This claimant to the Scottish throne murders his rival John Comyn at Greyfriars	Robert the Bruce	62%
1387	Geoffrey Chaucer begins writing this collection of stories	The Canterbury Tales	62%
1361	Edward the _____ Prince marries Joan of Kent	Black	54%
1340	Construction begins on this palace in Venice	Doge's Palace	54%
1376	The governors of this Italian city are excommunicated by the Pope	Florence	54%
1360	Signing the Treaty of Bretigny, Edward III relinquishes his claim to the ______ throne	French	54%
1374	The king grants this English writer a gallon of wine a day for the rest of his life	Geoffrey Chaucer	54%
1394	Adherents of this religion are expelled from France	Judaism	54%
1321	A conspiracy theory spreads that sufferers of this disease are poisoning wells	Leprosy	54%
1316	This French king and tennis aficionado dies of pleurisy or pneumonia	Louis X	54%
1335	Sweden outlaws this practice	Slavery	54%
1336	This influential Central Asian conqueror is born near Samarkand	Tamerlane	54%
1331	Poland defeats the ________ Order at the Battle of Plowce	Teutonic	54%
1370	Construction begins on this fortress in Paris	The Bastille	54%
1353	Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio completes this collection of stories	The Decameron	54%
1386	The foundation of this university, the oldest in Germany	Heidelberg University	46%
1357	First use of this Italian word for a common viral illness	Influenza	46%
1381	The ________ Revolt breaks out across England	Peasants'	46%
1373	An alliance, remaining in force today, is signed between England and this country	Portugal	46%
1391	Anti-Jewish pogroms erupt in this Spanish city	Seville	46%
1351	This crime against the state or monarch is codified in England	Treason	46%
1365	The foundation of this university in Austria	University of Vienna	46%
1368	The Ming dynasty drives the ____ dynasty out of China and back into Mongolia	Yuan	46%
1325	According to popular myth, Bologna and Modena go to war over the theft of this object	Bucket	38%
1358	Foundation of the Republic of Ragusa, centred on this city in modern-day Croatia	Dubrovnik	38%
1399	This king of England is crowned after deposing Richard II	Henry IV	38%
1382	This religious reformer translates the Bible into English	John Wycliffe	38%
1397	Sweden, Denmark and Norway are joined together in the ______ Union	Kalmar	38%
1311	Completion of this cathedral's spire makes it the tallest building in the world, surpassing the Great Pyramid	Lincoln Cathedral	38%
1385	Poland joins with this country in the Union of Krewo	Lithuania	38%
1333	Flooding destroys this famous bridge in Florence	Ponte Vecchio	38%
1318	The Scots recapture this border town from the English	Berwick-upon-Tweed	31%
1380	The Battle of Kulikovo, deadliest of the century, takes place near this Russian river	Don	31%
1350	This English king personally leads a fleet to victory in a naval battle against Castile	Edward III	31%
1315	Almost all of Europe is afflicted by the Great ______	Famine	31%
1369	The sinking of its only supply ship leaves this European colony isolated	Greenland	31%
1354	This Muslim scholar and explorer begins writing an account of his travels	Ibn Battuta	31%
1392	Foundation of the ______ Dynasty, which will rule Korea for 500 years	Joseon	31%
1323	The last remnants of this building, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, are destroyed in an earthquake	Lighthouse of Alexandria	31%
1371	First appearance of these instruments for playing games	Playing cards	31%
1304	English forces capture this Scottish castle	Stirling Castle	31%
1341	A war of succession begins in this region of France	Brittany	23%
1327	This English king is deposed and, allegedly, sodomised to death with a hot poker	Edward II	23%
1349	A papal bull officially condemns these Catholic radicals who whip themselves	Flagellants	23%
1339	Every street in this city is paved, the first European city to do so since Roman times	Florence	23%
1395	John Rykener is arrested in London for this crime	Sodomy	23%
1342	Central Europe is devastated by St Mary Magdalene's _____	Flood	15%
1346	This blind Bohemian king is killed in Battle of Crecy	John of Bohemia	15%
1400	Richard II starves to death while held in this Yorkshire castle	Pontefract	15%
1378	Beginning of the _______ Schism in the Catholic Church	Western	15%
1308	This Hapsburg monarch is assassinated by his nephew	Albert I	8%
1344	Castillian forces capture this city from the Moors	Algeciras	8%
1334	The first foundations are laid for the tower of this cathedral	Florence Cathedral	8%
1313	This briefly-reigning Holy Roman Emperor dies of malaria while campaigning	Henry VII	8%
1338	First definitive evidence of this timekeeping device	Hourglass	8%
1384	This 10-year-old girl, Poland's first female ruler, ascends to the throne	Jadwiga	8%
1389	A civil war breaks out in this country, the largest in Europe at the time	Lithuania	8%
1324	This Italian scholar publishes Defensor pacis, a treatise promoting the secular state	Marsilius of Padua	8%
1329	The Pope condemns the teachings of this German philosopher as heretical	Meister Eckhart	8%
1326	A treaty is ratified in the ongoing Flemish _______ revolt	Peasant	8%
1302	The end of the Crusades, as the final European garrison on this island falls	Ruad	8%
1345	Turkish forces drive Christian crusaders from this recently captured Greek city	Smyrna	8%
1328	This English philosopher is excommunicated after fleeing Avignon	William of Ockham	8%
1343	This part of Italy is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami	Amalfi Coast	0%
1393	Four French nobles are accidentally burned to death at this masquerade ball	Bal des Ardents	0%
1356	This city is devastated by the deadliest earthquake in Central European history	Basel	0%
1322	Major victory for the Scots over the English at this battle in Yorkshire	Battle of Old Byland	0%
1375	The English cede large amounts of territory to the French in the Treaty of ______	Bruges	0%
1332	This claimant to the throne mounts an invasion of Scotland	Edward Balliol	0%
1367	This prince ascends to the Portuguese throne	Ferdinand I	0%
1362	This extratropical storm kills 25,000 in Western Europe	Grote Mandrenke	0%
1398	According to fringe theorists, this Scottish explorer visits North America	Henry Sinclair	0%
1366	The death of this German mystic	Henry Suso	0%
1396	King Richard II, aged 29, marries this 6-year-old	Isabella of Valois	0%
1379	After raiding a nunnery, this Lord Marshal of England is drowned at sea	John FitzAlan	0%
1390	This king of Castile dies after falling from his horse	John I	0%
1383	Supposed foundation of this famous Munich brewery	Lowenbrau	0%
1359	Full power is restored to this Swedish king after his son and co-ruler dies	Magnus IV	0%
1319	This three-year-old becomes King of Sweden	Magnus IV	0%
1388	The royal court in England is convicted of treason by the _________ Parliament	Merciless	0%
1317	King Berger of Sweden imprisons his brothers at the _________ Banquet	Nykoping	0%
1372	This soldier launches a fleet to recapture the Welsh throne	Owain Lawgoch	0%
1363	The Battle of Lake ______ in China, one of the largest naval battles in history	Poyang	0%
1330	This regent is arrested and executed by Edward III, accused of assuming royal power	Roger Mortimer	0%