Page:The Outline of History Vol 2.djvu/637

 {| ! A.D. !!
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1347. || Occam died.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1348. || The Great Plague, the Black Death.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1358. || The Jacquerie in France.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1360. || In China the Mongol (Yuan) Dynasty fell, and was succeeded by the Ming Dynasty (to 1644).
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1367. || Timurlane assumed the title of Great Khan.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1377. || Pope Gregory XI returned to Rome.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1378. || The Great Schism. Urban VI in Rome, Clement VII at Avignon.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1381. || Peasant revolt in England. Wat Tyler murdered in the presence of King Richard II.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1384. || Wycliffe died.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1398. || Huss preached Wycliffism at Prague.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1405. || Death of Timurlane.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1414-18. || The Council of Constance. Huss burnt (1415).
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1417. || The Great Schism ended, Martin V Pope.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1420. || The Hussites revolted. Martin V preached a crusade against them.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1431. || The Catholic Crusaders dissolved before the Hussites at Domazlice. The Council of Basle met.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1436. || The Hussites came to terms with the church.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1439. || Council of Basle created a fresh schism in the church.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1445. || Discovery of Cape Verde by the Portuguese.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1446. || First printed books (Coster in Haarlem).
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1449. || End of the Council of Basle.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1453. || Ottoman Turks under Muhammad II took Constantinople.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1480. || Ivan III, Grand-duke of Moscow, threw off the Mongol allegiance.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1481. || Death of the Sultan Muhammad II while preparing for the conquest of Italy. Bayazid II Turkish Sultan (to 1512).
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1486. || Diaz rounded the Cape of Good Hope.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1492. || Columbus crossed the Atlantic to America. Rodrigo Borgia, Alexander VI, Pope (to 1503).
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1493. || Maximilian I became Emperor.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1498. || Vasco da Gama sailed round the Cape to India.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1499. || Switzerland became an independent republic.
 * - valign="top"
 * style="width: 3em;" | 1500. || Charles V born.
 * }