| 1300–1450 | Little ice age |
| 1309–1376 | Babylonian Captivity; papacy in Avignon |
| 1310–1320 | Dante writes Divine Comedy |
| 1315–1322 | Great Famine in northern Europe |
| 1320s | First large- |
| 1337–1453 | Hundred Years’ War |
| 1347 | Black Death arrives in Europe |
| 1358 | Jacquerie peasant uprising in France |
| 1366 | Statute of Kilkenny |
| 1378–1417 | Great Schism |
| 1381 | English Peasants’ Revolt |
| 1387–1400 | Chaucer writes Canterbury Tales |