1300s

• The Great Famine of 1315-1317 kills millions of people in Europe
• An account of Buddha's life, translated earlier into Greek by St John of Damascus and widely circulated to Christians as the story of Barlaam and Josaphat, became so popular that Buddha (under the name Josaphat) was made a Catholic saint.
• The Scots win the Scottish Wars of Independence.
• Beginning of the Renaissance in Italy