Person report

★22 Feb 1316
The forces of the infante Ferdinand of Majorca fought against those loyal to Princess Matilda of Hainaut in the Battle of Picotin on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece.

★09 Sep 1320
Byzantine-Latin Wars: Byzantine forces defeated Arcadian ones in the Battle of Saint George, taking control of the Morea region of Greece.

★16 Mar 1322
Despenser War: A royalist army defeated troops loyal to Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, in the Battle of Boroughbridge, which allowed King Edward II of England to hold on to power for another five years.

★24 Jun 1340
Hundred Years' War: The English fleet commanded by Edward III almost totally destroyed the French fleet at the Battle of Sluys.

★26 Oct 1341
The Byzantine army proclaimed chief minister John VI Kantakouzenos emperor, triggering a civil war between his supporters and those of John V Palaiologos, the heir to the throne.

★27 Jan 1343
Pope Clement VI issued the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences.

★10 Feb 1355
A tavern dispute between Oxford University students and townsfolk turned into a riot that left about 90 people dead.

★20 Jan 1356
Edward Balliol, whose father John was briefly King of Scotland, gave up his claim to the throne in exchange for an English pension.

★17 Apr 1362
Lithuanian Crusade: After a month-long siege, the Teutonic Order captured and destroyed Kaunas Castle in Lithuania.

★04 Dec 1370
Hundred Years' War: In two separate engagements in the Battle of Pontvallain, French forces wiped out an English army which had split up because of a dispute between the commanders.

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