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Calendar overview 1346
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| 1346 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 794/795 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1338/39 |
| Aztec calendar | 9th house - Chicuhnahui Calli (until the end of January / beginning of February 8th Feuerstein - Chicuei Tecpatl ) |
| Buddhist calendar | 1889/90 (southern Buddhism); 1888/89 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 67th (68th) cycle
Year of the Fire Dog丙戌 ( at the beginning of the year Wood Rooster 乙酉) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 708/709 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 724/725 |
| Islamic calendar | 746/747 (turn of the year 23/24 April) |
| Jewish calendar | 5106/07 (September 17-18) |
| Coptic calendar | 1062/63 |
| Malayalam calendar | 521/522 |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1656/57 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1657/58 (turn of the year October) |
| Spanish era | 1384 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1402/03 |
Events
Politics and world events
Holy Roman Empire
- April 13th : Pope Clement VI. once again imposes a ban and interdict on Ludwig IV with the words: "May Ludwig fall into a pit that he does not see ... The Lord beat him with madness, blindness and frenzy ... The earth will open and swallow him alive."
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- July 11th : Karl von Böhmen from Luxembourg is elected in Rhens by five electors in agreement with Clemens VI. elected as the antagonist of Ludwig IV.
- August 21 : The Upper Lusatian Six-City Association is created as an association against the regional robber barons . The federation of the cities of Bautzen , Görlitz , Kamenz , Lauban , Löbau and Zittau later remains in place and is only dissolved in 1806 .
- August 27 : On the day of St. Rufus, Charles IV of Luxembourg is crowned. However, this coronation has no approval from the Pope and is not recognized by the Wittelsbachers either.
- Ludwig the Bavarian is preparing to defend his claims with the support of the German cities.
Hundred Years War
- June 9 : The Battle of Saint-Pol-de-Léon in the War of the Breton Succession ends with an English victory.
- July 11 : King Edward III. of England crosses the English Channel with a fleet from southern England and lands the next day in Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue , about 25 km from Cherbourg . From here he begins his campaign through Normandy in the Hundred Years War . Edward's army consists mainly of English and Welsh soldiers, some German and Breton mercenaries as well as Norman nobles and their armed men, who with the rule of the French King Philip VI. are dissatisfied. The English army marches southward from the landing point, with Edward's goal being to lead a Chevauchée across enemy territory to Caen . His soldiers plunder and pillage the cities of Carentan , Saint-Lô and Torteval on their way , with the aim of destroying French morale and fighting power. With the conquest of Caen, Edward hopes to finally be able to offset his enormous expenses for the campaign and at the same time to break the will to fight of the French crown by the capture and destruction of this important city.
- July 26th : The French defenders suffer a crushing defeat at the Battle of Caen . Then the English troops conquer and plunder the city.
- August 24 : The Battle of Blanchetaque is another victory for Edward's forces, allowing him to cross the Somme .
- August 26th : The French under Philip VI. are outnumbered by the heavily outnumbered English under Edward III. badly beaten in the battle of Crécy . The English archers with their longbows are superior to the French knights. Johann von Böhmen dies in this battle .
- September 4th : After their victory , the English troops besieged the city of Calais for eleven months .
Illumination in the Chroniques of the historian Jean Froissart for the battle of Neville's Cross
- October 17th : England's King Edward III. takes the Scottish King David II prisoner at the Battle of Neville's Cross and has him incarcerated in the Tower of London .
Northern Europe
- King Waldemar IV. Atterdag of Denmark sells Estonia (conquered 1219 ) to the Teutonic Order .
Southern Europe
- December 21 : Venetian troops invade the Croatian-Hungarian coastal city of Zadar and take control after the long siege (since August 12, 1345)
Byzantine
science and technology
- Pope Clement VI approved the University of Valladolid .
society
- The Ospedale della Pietà is founded in Venice as an orphanage and hospice for single mothers with babies.
religion
- The foundation stone for the Vadstena monastery in Östergötland in Sweden is laid.
Disasters
- The plague pandemic , which has been raging since 1331 , reaches Astrakhan .
Born
Exact date of birth unknown
- Albrecht von Wernigerode , Bishop of Halberstadt († 1419 )
- Anna of the Palatinate , Duchess of Berg († 1415 )
- Dorje Lingpa , person of Tibetan Buddhism († 1405 )
- Richard FitzAlan , English nobleman and military leader († 1397 )
- Johann I , Duke of Lorraine († 1390 )
- Otto V , Duke of (Upper) Bavaria and Elector and Margrave of Brandenburg († 1379 )
- Philip I , Count Palatine and Duke of Burgundy, Count of Artois († 1361 )
- Jakob Twinger von Königshofen , Strasbourg historian († 1420 )
Born around 1346
- Eleanor Maltravers , English nobleman († 1405 )
Died
First half of the year
- January 8 : Lucy Thwing , English noblewoman (* 1278 )
- February 1 : Pål Bårdsson , Archbishop of Nidaros (* around 1280 )
- February 1st : Friedrich Ritzendorfer , Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Kremsmünster
- February 20 : Gilbert Talbot , English nobleman (* 1276 )
- April 9th : Ralph Ufford , English Knight and Royal Justiciar of Ireland
- May 15 : Heinrich I , Lord of Fürstenberg and Jauer, Duke of Schweidnitz and Duke of Jauer (* around 1294 )
- June 9th : Heinrich von Zipplingen , advisor and secretary to Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian
Second half of the year
- July 18 : Ludwig von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Bishop of Minden (* around 1300 )
- August 10 : Philippe of Burgundy , Count of Auvergne and Boulogne (* 1323 )
- August 25 : Rudolf , Duke of Lorraine (* around 1320 )
- August 26 : Heinrich II. Von Rosenberg , Bohemian nobleman (* around 1320 )
- August 26th : Henry IV , Count of Vaudémont
- August 26th : John , King of Bohemia and Hereditary King of Poland (* 1296 )
- August 26th : John V , Count of Roucy, Braine and Rochefort and Lord of Pierrepont
- August 26th : Louis I , Count of Blois and Dunois
- August 26 : Ludwig I , Count of Flanders, Count of Nevers and Rethel, Baron von Donzy (* around 1304 )
- August 26 : Karl von Valois , Count of Alençon and Le Perche (* around 1297 )
- August: Heinrich III. von Stein , counter-bishop of Regensburg and prince-bishop of Regensburg
- September 20 : Catherine de Valois-Courtenay , titular empress of Constantinople and regent of the Principality of Achaia, Princess of Taranto (* 1301 )
- 23 September : Ulrich II. , Mr. von Hanau (* 1280 / 1288 )
- October 17th : Maurice Moray , Scottish nobleman (* around 1290 )
- October 17 : John Randolph , Scottish nobleman and co-regent at times (* 1306 )
- November 27th : Gregory of Sinai , Byzantine monk (* 1255 )
- November 29th : Agnes , mistress of Hanau (* before 1295 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Abu Bakr II , Caliph of the Hafsids in Ifriqiya
- Bernhard , Count of Ravensberg
- Heinrich von Bokholt , councilor of Lübeck
- Enguerrand VI. de Coucy , lord of Coucy, Marle, La Fère, Oisy and Montmirail (* 1313 )
- Giorgi V , King of Georgia (* around 1286 )
- Gerhard von Oßweiler , knight and local lord at Wedersweiler Castle
- Hélion de Villeneuve , Grand Master of the Order of St. John (* around 1270)
- al-Kamil Schaban I , Sultan of the Mamluks in Egypt (* around 1328 )
- Mathilde of Bavaria , Margravine of Meissen (* 1313 )
- Loretta , Countess of Sponheim (* 1300 )
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