14th century
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- Notable conflicts:
- Notable events: Bubonic plague (Black Death).
- Notable empires: Decline of Mongol Empire.
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- Notable Christian events:
- Notable Christians: Wycliffe
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- 1300s - Wycliffe's ministry, teaches renewal of the church, sends out followers (Lollards), translates Bible into English.
- 1300s - Mendicant orders (Jesuits, Franciscans, others) in decline, having lost much of their vitality.
- 1303 - Arnold von Koln arrives in China to assist Giovanni di Monte Corvino
- 1309 - Pope moves to Avignon until 1377, considered a low point of the Catholic Church.
- 1321 - Jordanus, a Dominican monk, arrives in India as the first resident Roman Catholic missionary
- 1322 - Odoric of Pordenone, a Franciscan monk from Italy, arrives in China
- 1323 - Franciscans make contacts on Sumatra, Java, and Borneo
- 1326 - Changatid Khan Ilchigedai grants permission for a church to be built in Samarkand, Uzbekistan
- 1329 - Nicea falls to Muslim Ottoman Turks
- 1350s - Beginning of several waves of bubonic plague, also called the Black Death, devastates Europe, kills a third of Northern Europe's population (and probably half of England's); decimates the Franciscans and Jesuits (whose monks were most involved in treating the sick).
- 1350s on - Collapse of the Mongolian Empire.
- 1368 - Collapse of the Mongol Empire in China, and rise of the Ming Dynasty.
- 1368 - Collapse of the Franciscan mission in China as Ming Dynasty abolishes Christianity
- 1360s - Islam becomes firstly established in northwest China. Mongols of Persia and Central Asia convert to Islam as well.
- 1360s - Collapse of the Mongol Empire leads to disintegration of trade routes and increasing difficulty in cross-Asia travel by merchants and missionaries.
- 1377 - Papacy returns to Rome, schism as numerous popes elected.
- 1379 - Stephen of Prem travels north toward the White Sea and settles as a missionary among the Finno-Ugric speaking Komi peoples living between Pechora and Vychegda Rivers at Ust-Vim
- 1382 - Bible translated into English from Latin by John Wycliff
- 1386 - Jogaila (later - Jagiello), king of the Lithuanians, is baptized
