| THE SECOND MILLENIA |
| AD 1000 -- AD 2000 |
The William Tell Monument in Altdorf, Switzerland
1300 A.D. -- 1400 A.D.
1300's
| England recruits Flemish weavers with promises of "good beer, good food, and good bedfellows". |
| Elaborate irrigated field systems are constructed in parts of East African Rift Valley during the 14th Century. |
| Black Death, which was marked by bleeding into the skin ravages Europe. |
1300's
| The Aztec Empire rises in MesoAmerica. |
| Apothecaries become popular in German cities. |
| Urine is examined as a means of medical diagnoses. |
| Cannons in use in Europe. |
| Chinese drama is developed. |
| Marco Polo travels in China. |
1300 -- 1345
| Major Economic Depression hits Europe. |
1302
| Romeo Montacchio and Juliette Capelletta, the real couple upon which Shakespeare based his play "Romeo and Juliette" are married in Citadella, Italy. |
| Dante is exiled from Florence. |
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1300 -- 1400's
| Christian artists in Ethiopia produce richly decorated Gospel manuscripts. |
1305
| King Edward I standardizes the yard and the acre. |
1305 -- 1378
| Babylonian captivity of papacy. |
1307
| William Tell shoots the apple off his son's head in Switzerland. |
1309
| Clement V (a Frenchman) fixes papal residence at Avignon -- beginning of the Babylonian captivity during which Rome is not the papal seat. |
1314
| England bans football (soccer) for being too violent. |
1324
| The death of Marco Polo occurs. |
1325
| Tenachtitlan (what is now Mexico City) is founded by the Aztecs. |
1328
| The sawmill is invented. |
1331
| The first record of weaving in England. |
1332
| The first record of the English Parliament being divided into two houses. |
| The Bubonic Plague originates in India. |
1334
| The erection of the Palace of Popes in Avignon. (Used from 1337 until 1403) |
1337
| William Merlee of Oxford attempts first scientific weather forecasts. |
1337-1453
| The Hundred Years War. (See..it was really longer than a hundred years.) |
1348
| The persecution of Jews in Germany. |
1350
| The Shogun of Japan prohibits drinking, too. |
1351
| Tennis becomes open-air game in England. |
1352
| Arab geographer Ibn Battuta explores the Arabian Desert. |
1381
| English peasants revolt. |
1390
| Geoffrey Chaucer begins writing the "Canterbury Tales", and dies before completing them. |
