Dancing mania of 1374
Crowds dance for weeks in the towns of the Rhineland
In the summer of 1374 people in Aachen, then Cologne, Metz and other towns, began dancing nonstop until they collapsed. The cause is still unknown; suggestions range from mass hysteria to ergot poisoning.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1380 Battle of Kulikovo — 6 years later
Africa
- 1377 Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah — 3 years later
Asia
- 1351 Founding of Ayutthaya — 23 years earlier
- 1368 Founding of the Ming dynasty — 6 years earlier
- 1370 Timur makes Samarkand his capital — 4 years earlier
- 1377 Jikji, printed with movable metal type — 3 years later
- 1392 Founding of Joseon — 18 years later
Alive at the time
- Timur (aged 38)
- Edward III (aged 62)
- Sergius of Radonezh (aged 60)
- Charles IV (aged 58)
- Murad I (aged 48)
- Ibn Khaldun (aged 42)
- Dmitry Donskoy (aged 24)
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (aged 16)
- Andrei Rublev (aged 14)
- Bayezid I the Thunderbolt (aged 14)