Cambridge in the Fourteenth Century
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1301-1310
- 1305: Papacy moved to Avignon
- 1307: King Edward II
- 1308: Philosopher Duns Scotus died
1311-1320
- 1314: Battle of Bannockburn - Scottish independence
- 1318: The Pope confirms the University as a Studium generale
1321-1330
- 1324: Michaelhouse founded by Hervey de Stanton
(later to become part of Trinity College)
- 1326: University Hall founded by the University
- 1327: King Edward III
- 1327: Justices of the Peace created, to work alongside the King's sheriffs
1331-1340
- 1332: King's Hall founded by King Edward III
(later to become part of Trinity College)
- 1337: Hundred Years' War starts
1341-1350
- 1343: University gains rights to trial and punishment
- 1346: University Hall refounded as Clare Hall by the Countess of Clare
- 1347: Marie Valence Hall founded by the Countess of Pembroke
(later Pembroke Hall and then College)
- 1347 Hall of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary founded by Edmund de Gunville
(in what is now Free School Lane)
- 1348: King Edward III founded the Order of the Garter
- 1349: Black Death kills about a third of the population of England
- 1349: Philosopher William of Occam died (b. c1285)
- 1350: Hall of the Holy Trinity founded by Bishop Bateman of Norwich (Trinity Hall)
1351-1360
- 1351: Statute of Provisors
- 1352: Corpus Christi Hall founded (later called Benet College for a while)
- 1354: Hall of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary refounded as Gunville Hall by Bishop Bateman and swapped land with the Guild of Corpus Christi
(bringing it to its present site)
- 1354: The mayor and bailiffs complained to Parliament that
they couldn't pay the town rent as they'd spent all their money
in legal challenges to the University's privileges.
They had to pay anyway
- 1358: The Hanseatic League of merchants was formally established, including Steelyard in London
1361-1370
- 1362: English became the official language in courts of law
- 1362: Piers Ploughman written by William Langland
1371-1380
1381-1390
- 1381: Peasants' Revolt
- 1381: University granted full control of weights and measures
- 1382: Wyclif expelled from Oxford University for heresy - Cambridge avoids generations of suspicion
by staying orthodox
- 1385: There were two major fires, destroying at least a hundred houses
- 1386: The Statute of Cambridge
- 1386: New Guildhall or Tollbooth built, which lasted until 1782
- 1387: Chaucer starts writing the Canterbury Tales (finished in 1400)
1391-1400
- The mayor and bailiffs spent much of the town's income on spiteful legal battles with the University
- 1399: King Henry IV
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