Golden Bull of 1356
Seven electors win the right to choose the emperor
Emperor Charles IV fixed how the King of the Romans was chosen: by a majority of seven electors, three archbishops and four lay princes, with no papal approval. The bull remained a basic law of the Holy Roman Empire until its end in 1806.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1337 Sergius of Radonezh founds his monastery — 19 years earlier
- 1380 Battle of Kulikovo — 24 years later
Middle East
- 1354 Ottomans take Gallipoli — 2 years earlier
Africa
- 1377 Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah — 21 years later
Asia
- 1351 Founding of Ayutthaya — 5 years earlier
- 1351–1368 Red Turban Rebellions — 5 years earlier
- 1368 Founding of the Ming dynasty — 12 years later
- 1370 Timur makes Samarkand his capital — 14 years later
- 1377 Jikji, printed with movable metal type — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Timur (aged 20)
- Orhan (aged 75)
- Ibn Battuta (aged 52)
- Ashikaga Takauji (aged 51)
- Edward III (aged 44)
- Sergius of Radonezh (aged 42)
- Charles IV (aged 40)
- Murad I (aged 30)
- Ibn Khaldun (aged 24)
- Dmitry Donskoy (aged 6)