fourteenth century
Plague era timeframe
The fourteenth century spans the years 1301 to 1400.
In European history, it was marked by the Black Death, the Hundred Years' War, and the decline of feudalism.
Fourteenth-century manuscripts reveal much about medieval life.
Like other century designations, it functions as a noun or adjective.
- Black DeathMedieval bubonic plague pandemic
- bubonic plagueYersinia pestis infection
- Peasants' RevoltMedieval English commoner rebellion
- Great FamineMass starvation in Ireland
- eyeglassesCorrective lenses worn
Hundred Years' War · mechanical clocks · longbows · chain mail · Knights Templar · castle walls · wool · spinning wheel · Boccaccio · Gothic architecture · pointed arches · fresco painting · papal authority · walled cities · Giotto · Great Schism · Mongol invasions · Feudalism
- Black Deathbubonic plague, Black Death, plague doctors, buboes, Yersinia pestis
fourteenth centurytwenty-first century
Years 2001 through 2100
twentieth century · modern era · nineteenth century · distant future · ancient times
fourteenth centuryRenaissance
European cultural reawakening
modernity · Enlightenment · Age of Reason · Industrial Age · modern period
fourteenth centurygolden age
Period of peak prosperity
belle époque · Pax Romana · roaring twenties · post-war boom