Battle of Crécy
English longbowmen shoot down French chivalry
On 26 August 1346 Edward III's army, sheltering behind its longbowmen, beat off some fifteen charges of French cavalry. Thousands of knights fell, along with the blind King John of Bohemia; after the victory the English besieged and took Calais.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1337 Sergius of Radonezh founds his monastery — 9 years earlier
Middle East
- 1354 Ottomans take Gallipoli — 8 years later
Africa
- 1324 Hajj of Mansa Musa — 22 years earlier
- c. 1327 The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu — 19 years earlier
Asia
- 1333 Fall of Kamakura — 13 years earlier
- 1351 Founding of Ayutthaya — 5 years later
- 1351–1368 Red Turban Rebellions — 5 years later
- 1368 Founding of the Ming dynasty — 22 years later
- 1370 Timur makes Samarkand his capital — 24 years later
Americas
- c. 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan — 21 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Timur (aged 10)
- Orhan (aged 65)
- Ibn Battuta (aged 42)
- Ashikaga Takauji (aged 41)
- Edward III (aged 34)
- Sergius of Radonezh (aged 32)
- Charles IV (aged 30)
- Murad I (aged 20)
- Ibn Khaldun (aged 14)
- Louis the Bavarian (aged 64)