Dante completes the Divine Comedy
The afterlife poem that founded literary Italian
Exiled from Florence, Dante Alighieri finished his poem of a journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise shortly before his death in Ravenna in 1321. He wrote it in Tuscan rather than Latin, and the Comedy became the foundation of literary Italian.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1337 Sergius of Radonezh founds his monastery — 17 years later
Africa
- 1324 Hajj of Mansa Musa — 4 years later
- c. 1327 The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu — 7 years later
Asia
- 1333 Fall of Kamakura — 13 years later
Americas
- c. 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan — 5 years later
Alive at the time
- Marco Polo (aged 66)
- Dante Alighieri (aged 55)
- Osman I (aged 62)
- Mansa Musa (aged 40)
- Orhan (aged 39)
- Emperor Go-Daigo (aged 32)
- Ivan Kalita (aged 32)
- Ibn Battuta (aged 16)
- Ashikaga Takauji (aged 15)
- Edward III (aged 8)