Hundred Years' War
A fight over France's throne forges two nations
The Plantagenet kings of England contested the French throne with the Valois in a war that ran, with truces, for 116 years. Despite English victories at Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt, France eventually recovered nearly all its land, and both nations emerged with a stronger national identity.
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The Battle of Kulikovo (1380) fell in the middle of the Hundred Years' War, which had been raging for 43 years and had 73 more to go.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1337 Sergius of Radonezh founds his monastery — same year
Africa
- 1324 Hajj of Mansa Musa — 13 years earlier
- c. 1327 The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu — 10 years earlier
Americas
- c. 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan — 12 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Timur (aged 1)
- Mansa Musa (aged 57)
- Orhan (aged 56)
- Emperor Go-Daigo (aged 49)
- Ivan Kalita (aged 49)
- Ibn Battuta (aged 33)
- Ashikaga Takauji (aged 32)
- Edward III (aged 25)
- Sergius of Radonezh (aged 23)
- Charles IV (aged 21)