Onset of the Little Ice Age
Glaciers advance and Greenland's Viking farms fade
By one dating, a long cooling began in the Northern Hemisphere around 1300: Alpine glaciers advanced and Norse Greenland declined. Its limits are debated, and many scientists start the period in the 15th or 16th century.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Africa
- 1324 Hajj of Mansa Musa — 24 years later
Asia
- 1281 Kamikaze, the divine wind — 19 years earlier
- 1293 Founding of Majapahit — 7 years earlier
Americas
- c. 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan — 25 years later
Oceania
- c. 1280 Polynesians settle New Zealand — 20 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Marco Polo (aged 46)
- Dante Alighieri (aged 35)
- Edward I Longshanks (aged 61)
- Osman I (aged 42)
- Philip IV the Fair (aged 32)
- Mansa Musa (aged 20)
- Orhan (aged 19)
- Emperor Go-Daigo (aged 12)
- Ivan Kalita (aged 12)
- Albert I (aged 45)