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Year 1349 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1349

January 9 - The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland is rounded up and incinerated, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague.
February 14 - Roughly 2,000 Jews are burned to death in Strasbourg.(External Link)
May - The Black Death ceases in Ireland.
August 24 - The Black Death breaks out in Elbing (modern-day Elbląg in Poland).
October 20 - Pope Clement VI publishes a papal bull that condemns the Flagellants.
The Black Death spreads to Norway when an English ship with everyone dead on board floats to Bergen.
Pope Clement VI annuls the marriage of William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, and Joan of Kent, on the grounds of her prior marriage to Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent.
Sixteen thousand Jews are killed in Strasbourg during the year.
Ibn Battuta arrives in Fez in Morocco.

Births

September 9 - Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)

Friar John, Minister of the Friars Preachers of Ireland (alive 1405)

Venerable Macarius of Yellow Lake and Unzha, a semi-legendary Russian saint (d. 1444)

Deaths

May 31 - Thomas Wake, English politician (b. 1297)

June - Friar John Clyn, Franciscan and Irish chronicler

August 26 - Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury

September 11 - Bonne of Luxembourg, queen of John II of France (b. 1315)

Agnès of Valois, daughter of John II of France (b. 1345)

Joan II of Navarre, daughter of Louis X of France (b. 1311)

James III of Majorca (b. 1315)

Hamdollah Mostowfi, Persian historian and geographer (b. 1281)

Richard Rolle, English religious writer (b. 1300)

Günther von Schwarzburg, German king (b. 1304)

William of Ockham, English philosopher (b. 1285)

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