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Year 1347 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1347

The Black Death ravages Europe (1347-1351).
October - Genoese ships traveling from the Crimea bring the bubonic plague to Messina, from which it spreads across Sicily and in Italy.
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's driven out of the city by the end of the year.
Hundred Years War: The 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.
James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde, is granted his "regalities" by Edward III.

Births

March 25 - Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (d. 1380)

Eleanor of Arborea, ruler of Sardinia (d. 1404)

Deaths

October 11 - Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1282)

Adam Murimuth, English ecclesiastic and chronicler (b. 1274)

John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey (b. 1286)

Hazrat Shah Jalal, sufi saint of Bengal (b. 1271)

William of Ockham, English Philosopher (b. 1288)

Saint Flora, Catholic patroness of abandoned convents, single women & victims of betrayalFurther Information

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