1348
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1310s 1320s 1330s – 1340s – 1350s 1360s 1370s |
| Years: | 1345 1346 1347 – 1348 – 1349 1350 1351 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1348 MCCCXLVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2101 |
| Armenian calendar | 797 ԹՎ ՉՂԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6098 |
| Bengali calendar | 755 |
| Berber calendar | 2298 |
| English Regnal year | 21 Edw. 3 – 22 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1892 |
| Burmese calendar | 710 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6856–6857 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4044 or 3984 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4045 or 3985 |
| Coptic calendar | 1064–1065 |
| Discordian calendar | 2514 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1340–1341 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5108–5109 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1404–1405 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1270–1271 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4449–4450 |
| Holocene calendar | 11348 |
| Igbo calendar | 348–349 |
| Iranian calendar | 726–727 |
| Islamic calendar | 748–749 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōwa 4 (貞和４年) |
| Julian calendar | 1348 MCCCXLVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3681 |
| Minguo calendar | 564 before ROC 民前564年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1890–1891 |
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Year 1348 (MCCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- April 7 – Charles University is founded in Prague.
- June – Two ships enter the Bristol Channel bringing the bubonic plague to England.
- June 24 – The Black Death outbreak goes into full swing in Melcombe Regis (modern-day Weymouth, Dorset in England).
- July 6 – A Papal bull is issued by Pope Clement VI, protecting Jews against popular aggression during the Black Death epidemic.
- November 1 – The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro because they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".
Date unknown
- The Black Death epidemic spreads to central and western Europe.
- Emperor Sukō succeeds Emperor Komyo of Japan, making them the third and second of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders, respectively.
- Stefan the Mighty, Emperor of Serbia conquers Thessaly and Epirus.
- Edward III of England creates the first English order of chivalry, the Most Noble Order of the Garter.
- The Pskov Republic gains independence from the Novgorod Republic with the treaty of Bolotovo.
- The Black Death breaks out in Cairo.
- Estimation: Hangzhou in Mongolian China becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Cairo, capital of Mamluk Egypt.[1]
- A de facto truce is observed between England and France until 1355.
- Gonville Hall, the forerunner of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge is founded.
Births
- date unknown
- John Fitzalan, 1st Lord Arundel (d. 1379)
- Andronikos IV Palaiologos, The Byzantine Emperor
Deaths
- February 2 – Narymunt, Prince of Pinsk
- June 9 – Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (b. 1290)
- August 23 – John de Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury
- September 2 – Joan, Princess of England
- December 2 – Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan (b. 1297)
- date unknown
- Laura, beloved of Petrarch (b. 1310)
- Pietro Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (b. 1280)
- Giovanni Villani, chronicler of Florence (b. c. 1276)
- Umur Bey, Emir of Aydin
Thousands of people across Europe as they succumbed to the devastating plagues that blazed through countries.
