Chronology

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