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1340
In the naval battle of Sluis , the English defeat the French fleet. You thwart the plan of Philip VI. an invasion of England .
1340 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	788/789 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1332/33
Aztec calendar	3rd tubes - Jei Acatl (until the end of January / beginning of February 2nd rabbit - Ome Tochtli )
Buddhist calendar	1883/84 (southern Buddhism); 1882/83 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	67th (68th) cycle Year of the Metal Dragon庚辰 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Rabbit 己卯)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	702/703 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	718/719
Islamic calendar	740/741 (turn of the year June 26-27)
Jewish calendar	5100/01 (September 22-23)
Coptic calendar	1056/57
Malayalam calendar	515/516
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1650/51 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1651/52 (turn of the year October)
Spanish era	1378
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1396/97

Events

Politics and world events

Hundred Years War

• Early January: Naval War on the English Channel 1338–1340 : An English fleet raids Boulogne-sur-Mer , where it can destroy 18 unmanned galleys and 24 merchant ships.
• January 26 : Edward III. of England declares himself King of France . The citizens of Ghent recognize him as king.

English gold florentine to commemorate the sea battle: margin inscription: IHC TRANSIENS PER MEDIUM ILORUM IBAT ( “He [Jesus] walked through the middle of the crowd and walked away.” ) Luke 4:30.

• June 24th : In the naval battle of Sluis , the first major battle in the Hundred Years War , the English defeat the French fleet. They support their beleaguered Flemish allies and thwart Philip VI's plan . an invasion in England .
• July 26th : In the battle of Saint-Omer , a French army under the command of Count Jean I of Armagnac and Odo IV Duke of Burgundy defeated an allied army of England and the county of Flanders under the command of Robert III. Count of Artois , who then retires.

Reconquista

• April: The Moroccan Merinids under Abu l-Hasan defeat a Christian fleet in the naval battle of Gibraltar, cross the Strait of Gibraltar with a large force . Abu l-Hasan has his troops gather in Algeciras and Gibraltar . In August he unites his troops with those of the Emirate of Granada under Yusuf I and begins with him to besiege the city of Tarifa .
• October 30th : The combined forces of Alfonso XI. of Castile and León and Alfonso IV of Portugal defeat the Merinids under Abu l-Hasan of Morocco and their allies, the Nasrids of Granada under Yusuf I , who besiege the city of Tarifa , in the battle of the Salado . You achieve one of the most important victories in the late phase of the Reconquista .

Holy Roman Empire

• April 24 : The city of Bern defeats the city of Friborg in the Battle of Schönberg during the Swiss Habsburg Wars . In August Agnes of Hungary brokered a peace treaty in Königsfelden .

• John of Bohemia goes completely blind. He was blind in the right eye for three years and from then on is called the blind one .

Northern and Eastern Europe

• April 1st : The knight Niels Ebbesen kills Count Gerhard III in Randers . from Holstein . A little later Waldemar IV. Atterdag is elected King of Denmark. The time of the interregnum in Denmark is coming to an end.
• April 7th : The Principality of Halych-Volodymyr in today's Ukraine disintegrates after the death of Prince Bolesław Georg II , who is murdered by his boyars for allegedly preferring Catholics. Thereupon a fight breaks out between the emerging Eastern European great powers Poland and Lithuania for the hereditary property, which finally ends in a division of the empire. The territory of the Principality of Halych ( Galicia ) goes to the Kingdom of Poland , that of the Principality of Wolodymyr ( Volhynia ) with Lemberg to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania .

City rights and first documentary mentions

• Rotterdam receives the town charter and then developed rapidly because of its convenient location to a rich commercial city.
• First documented mention of Grüsch , Jeuss , Montalchez , Oberurnen , Rüti , Soubey and Thierstein

science and technology

• John Buridan is for the second time rector of the University of Paris (after 1327 / 28 ).

Culture

• The Schobermesse (Luxembourg: Schueberfouer) is being held for the first time in Luxembourg .

society

• around 1340: Around 75 million people live in Europe. For Germany, the estimates differ between 10 and 16 million.

religion

• The teachings of Wilhelm von Ockham are condemned.

Born

Date of birth saved

• March 5 : Cansignorio della Scala , Lord of Verona († 1375 )
• March 6 : John of Gaunt , English nobleman († 1399 )
• April 15 : Angelo Acciaioli , Bishop of Rapolla, Florence and Otia, Cardinal († 1408 )

• June 25 : John Mowbray , English nobleman († 1368 )
• November 30th : Johann von Berry , Duke of Berry and Auvergne († 1416 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Alexander V , antipope in Avignon († 1410 )
• Philipp van Artevelde , Flemish officer († 1382 )
• Diether VIII. , Count von Katzenelnbogen († 1402 )
• Elisabeth of Bosnia , Queen of Hungary and Poland († 1387 )
• Geert Groote , Dutch theologian and penitential preacher († 1384 )
• Peter II , Count of Alençon and Le Perche († 1404 )
• Karmapa Rölpe Dorje , person of Tibetan Buddhism († 1383 )
• William Zouche , English nobleman († 1396 )

Born around 1340

• Jean de Bondol , Flemish illuminator and painter († around 1400 )
• Master Bertram , German painter († 1414 )
• Jean de Murol , Bishop of Geneva († 1399 )
• Leopold Stainreuter , Austrian scholar and historian († around 1400 )
• Robert Stewart , English nobleman († 1420 )
• Nikola Tavelić , Croatian Franciscan, saint of the Catholic Church († 1391 )

Died

Date of death secured

• March 11th : Johann II. , Count of Sponheim zu Kreuznach (* around 1272 )
• April 1st : Gerhard III. , Duke of Schleswig and Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (* around 1293 )
• April 7 : Bolesław Georg II , Prince of Halych-Volodymyr (* 1308 )
• April 7th : Konrad von Klingenberg , Bishop of Brixen and Prince-Bishop of Freising
• April 13 : Berthold VII , ruling Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen (* 1272 )

• May 10 : Henry de Beaumont , English nobleman
• June 19 : Bonagratia of Bergamo , Italian Franciscan, lawyer and politician (* 1265 )
• June 24th : Nicolas Béhuchet , Treasurer and Admiral of France

• August 10 : Elisabeth von Matzingen , Swiss abbess
• August 18 : Matteo Orsini , Cardinal of the Catholic Church

• October 11 : Nikolaus von Ybbs , Bishop of Regensburg (* around 1275 )
• October 18 : Heinrich von Friemar , German theology professor and writer (* around 1245 )
• December 4 : Henry Burghersh , Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury (* 1292 )
• December 21 : Johann I , Duke of Lower Bavaria (* 1329 )

Exact date of death unknown

• April: Basil Comnenus , Emperor and Grand Comnene of Trebizond

• Bachja ben Ascher , Spanish Kabbalist
• Niels Ebbesen , Jutian nobleman
• Gernot, called Irrmut , head of a German patrician family (* 1280 )
• Jakob ben Ascher , Jewish author (* 1283 )
• Johann III. von Diest , Bishop of Utrecht
• Josef Kaspi , Jewish scholar (* 1279 )
• Manfred IV , Margrave of Saluzzo
• Margaretha von Berg , Countess of Ravensberg (* around 1285 )
• Otto VI. , Count of Weimar-Orlamünde (* 1297 )
• Mahmoud Schabestari , Iranian mystic and poet (* 1288 )
• Simonida , wife of the king of Raszien, Stefan Uroš II. Milutin (* 1294 )

Died around 1340

• Richard Airmyn , English cleric (* around 1290 )

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