14th century
Black Death era
The 14th century spans the years 1301 to 1400.
In European history, it's marked by the Black Death, the Hundred Years' War, and the decline of feudalism.
14th-century manuscript, a 14th-century cathedral.
Like other century designations, note that the 14th century covers the 1300s, not the 1400s.
- Black DeathMedieval bubonic plague pandemic
- mechanical clocksGear-based time-measuring devices
- ScholasticismMedieval academic theology method
- Hundred Years' WarMedieval English-French succession struggle
- siege warfareSurrounding fortifications to force capitulation
Great Famine · Petrarch · peasant uprisings · Boccaccio · Great Schism · Ottoman Empire · Byzantine Empire · Chaucer · Giotto · illuminated manuscripts · Italian literature · court poetry · medieval · chain mail · Gothic architecture · Dante's Divine Comedy · Florence · Dante
- time periodsday, year, month, week, hour
- Black Deathbubonic plague, Black Death, plague doctors, buboes, Yersinia pestis
- Chaucer's WorldCanterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, Middle English, medieval England, pilgrimage
- Divine ComedyInferno, Dante, Paradiso, Beatrice, Virgil
- PetrarchCanzoniere, Laura, Africa, Petrarchan sonnet, sonnets
14th century21st century
Years 2001 to 2100
modern era · modern times · modern age · 20th century · today
14th centuryantiquity
Great age, ancient era
ancient world · modernity · Renaissance · Age of Enlightenment · classical antiquity
14th centuryantiquity
Great age, ancient era
ancient times · Bronze Age · Iron Age · Roman Empire · ancient Greece