First Hanseatic Diet
A merchant league controls trade from Novgorod to London
In 1356, by one account, the Hanseatic towns held their first general diet, the Hansetag, in Lübeck. The league of merchant guilds and towns spanned nearly 200 settlements, dominated trade on the North and Baltic Seas, kept kontors in Novgorod, Bergen, Bruges and London, and finally dissolved only in 1669.
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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)