Abandonment of Cahokia
The largest city north of Mexico empties
The mound-builders' city, with its 30-metre Monks Mound, had lost its people by the 14th century and was abandoned around 1350. The causes are debated, from deforestation and floods to drought and war.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1337–1453 Hundred Years' War — 13 years earlier
- 1346 Battle of Crécy — 4 years earlier
- 1347–1351 Black Death — 3 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1337 Sergius of Radonezh founds his monastery — 13 years earlier
Middle East
- 1354 Ottomans take Gallipoli — 4 years later
Africa
- c. 1327 The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu — 23 years earlier
Asia
- 1333 Fall of Kamakura — 17 years earlier
- 1351 Founding of Ayutthaya — 1 year later
- 1351–1368 Red Turban Rebellions — 1 year later
- 1368 Founding of the Ming dynasty — 18 years later
- 1370 Timur makes Samarkand his capital — 20 years later
Alive at the time
- Timur (aged 14)
- Orhan (aged 69)
- Ibn Battuta (aged 46)
- Ashikaga Takauji (aged 45)
- Edward III (aged 38)
- Sergius of Radonezh (aged 36)
- Charles IV (aged 34)
- Murad I (aged 24)
- Ibn Khaldun (aged 18)
- Dmitry Donskoy (aged 0)