Grote Mandrenke
A storm breaks the dikes and drowns the town of Rungholt
On 16 January 1362 a North Sea storm broke dykes from England to Denmark, drowning an estimated 25,000 people or more. The trading town of Rungholt vanished beneath the waves and became the legend of a 'northern Atlantis'.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1337 Sergius of Radonezh founds his monastery — 25 years earlier
- 1380 Battle of Kulikovo — 18 years later
Asia
- 1368 Founding of the Ming dynasty — 6 years later
- 1370 Timur makes Samarkand his capital — 8 years later
- 1377 Jikji, printed with movable metal type — 15 years later
Alive at the time
- Timur (aged 26)
- Orhan (aged 81)
- Ibn Battuta (aged 58)
- Edward III (aged 50)
- Sergius of Radonezh (aged 48)
- Charles IV (aged 46)
- Murad I (aged 36)
- Ibn Khaldun (aged 30)
- Dmitry Donskoy (aged 12)
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (aged 4)