1349

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1320s 1330s 1340s 1350s 1360s
Years:	1346 1347 1348 1349 1350 1351 1352

1349 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1349 MCCCXLIX
Ab urbe condita	2102
Armenian calendar	798 ԹՎ ՉՂԸ
Assyrian calendar	6099
Balinese saka calendar	1270–1271
Bengali calendar	756
Berber calendar	2299
English Regnal year	22 Edw. 3 – 23 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1893
Burmese calendar	711
Byzantine calendar	6857–6858
Chinese calendar	戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4046 or 3839 — to — 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 4047 or 3840
Coptic calendar	1065–1066
Discordian calendar	2515
Ethiopian calendar	1341–1342
Hebrew calendar	5109–5110
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1405–1406
- Shaka Samvat	1270–1271
- Kali Yuga	4449–4450
Holocene calendar	11349
Igbo calendar	349–350
Iranian calendar	727–728
Islamic calendar	749–750
Japanese calendar	Jōwa5 (貞和5年)
Javanese calendar	1261–1262
Julian calendar	1349 MCCCXLIX
Korean calendar	3682
Minguo calendar	563 before ROC 民前563年
Nanakshahi calendar	−119
Thai solar calendar	1891–1892
Tibetan calendar	阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 1475 or 1094 or 322 — to — 阴土牛年 (female Earth-Ox) 1476 or 1095 or 323

January–December

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January 22 – An earthquake affects L'Aquila in southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), causing severe damage, and leaving 2,000 dead.
February 14 – Jewish persecutions during the Black Death: Strasbourg massacre – Because they are believed by the residents to be the cause of the Black Death, roughly 2,000 Jews are burned to death.^[1]
February 19 – Jewish persecutions during the Black Death: The entire Jewish community in the remote German village of Saulgau is wiped out.^[2]
March 21 – Jewish persecutions during the Black Death: Erfurt massacre – The Jewish community of Erfurt (Germany) is murdered and expelled in a pogrom.^[3]
March 27 – An earthquake in England strikes Meaux Abbey.
May – The Black Death ceases in Ireland.
May 28 – In Breslau, Silesia, 60 Jews are murdered following a disastrous fire which destroys part of the city.^[4]
August 24 – The Black Death breaks out in Elbing (Poland).
September 9 – 1349 Apennine earthquakes. An earthquake in Rome causes extensive damage, including the collapse of the southern exterior facade of the Colosseum.
October 20 – Pope Clement VI publishes a papal bull that condemns the Flagellants.
November 8 – Ibn Battuta arrives in Fez, Morocco.
November 17 – Pope Clement VI annuls the marriage of William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, and Joan of Kent, on the grounds of her prior marriage to Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent.
December 22 – The rise of Alexios III of Trebizond to the throne ends the Trapezuntine Civil Wars.

Ongoing

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The Black Death in England spreads to the north and a ship from England carries it to Askøy and Bjørgvin (modern-day Bergen) in Norway.^[5] The disease also breaks out in Mecca and is prevalent in the Île-de-France and the Kingdom of Navarre.

September 9 – Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
date unknown
- Friar John, Minister of the Friars Preachers of Ireland (alive 1405)
- Venerable Macarius of Yellow Lake and Unzha, semi-legendary Russian saint (d. 1444)

February 26 – Fatima bint al-Ahmar, Nasrid princess in the Emirate of Granada (b. c.1260)
April 3 – Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1295)
May 31 – Thomas Wake, English politician (b. 1297)
June – John Clyn, Irish Franciscan friar and chronicler
June 14 – Günther von Schwarzburg, German king (b. 1304)
August 26 – Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury
September 11 – Bonne of Luxembourg, queen of John II of France (b. 1315)
September 30 – Richard Rolle, English religious writer (b. c.1300)
October 6 – Joan II of Navarre, daughter of Louis X of France (b. 1311)
October 25 – James III of Majorca (b. 1315)
November 18 – Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1310)
date unknown – Hamdallah Mustawfi, Persian historian and geographer (b. 1281)
probable – William of Ockham, English philosopher (b. 1285)

^ "Jewish History Sourcebook: The Black Death and the Jews 1348-1349 CE". New York: Fordham University. Retrieved July 20, 2017.

^ "This Month in Jewish History - Shvat". Torahtots.com. Retrieved July 20, 2017.

^ Lemaître, Frédéric (September 19, 2011). "Erfurt, ses juifs et l'UNESCO". Le Monde (in French). Paris. Retrieved September 19, 2011.

^ "This Month in Jewish History - Sivan". Torahtots.com. Retrieved July 20, 2017.

^ Benedictow, Ole Jørgen (2006). The Black Death, 1346-1353: The Complete History. Boydell Press. pp. 154–155. ISBN 9781843832140.

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Ongoing

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