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Year 1315 ( MCCCXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar . Events. January – March. January 2 – King Edward II of England buries his friend, the late Piers Gaveston, having secured a papal absolution in one of the last acts of Pope Clement V.
The Great Famine of 1315–1317 (occasionally dated 1315–1322) was the first of a series of large-scale crises that struck parts of Europe early in the 14th century. Most of Europe (extending east to Poland and south to the Alps) was affected. [1]
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The Battle of Morgarten took place on 15 November 1315, when troops of Schwyz, supported by their allies of Uri and Unterwalden, ambushed an Austrian army under the command of Leopold I, Duke of Austria on the shores of Lake Ägeri, in the territory of Schwyz.
Dec 24, 2023 · THE GREAT FAMINE OF 1315-1317. Introduction to the Great Famine. The Great Famine, which took place from 1315 to 1317, extending in some areas until 1322, marked the beginning of a series of large-scale crises that profoundly impacted Europe in the early 14th century.
Jan 26, 1996 · Translated by Brian Tierney. This text is part of the Internet Medieval Source Book. The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts related to medieval and Byzantine history. Unless otherwise indicated the specific electronic form of the document is copyright. Permission is granted for electronic copying, distribution ...
Jun 17, 2011 · These conditions contributed to the Great European Famine of 1315 - 1322, in which millions perished. The Black Death was the worst disease in recorded history, killing 50% of the population in a ...
The Great Famine: 1315–1322 Revisited. By William Chester Jordan. Ecologies and Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Studies in Environmental History for Richard C. Hoffmann, edited by Scott Bruce (Brill, 2010) Introduction: In 1996 I published a book on the Great Famine of the early fourteenth century, a phenomenon that encompassed ...
