1341 Gold first coined in England.
1346 Cannon first used by the English at Cressy.
1347 So great a plague in England, that in one year there was buried in London 50,000; and there succeeded a famine and murrain. August 3rd, king Edward took the City of Calais, which he filled with English inhabitants; and it remained in the possession of the Crown of England 210 years after.
1348 The Order of the Garter instituted by Edward the Black Prince, April 3. The plague destroyed one-half of the people.
1352 The largest silver coin in England was groats.
1357 Coals first imported into London.
1362 Council obliged to plead in English.
1364 Four kings entertained at one time, by Sir Henry Picard, lord mayor of London.
1377 The first champion at coronation. Orders to arm the clergy.
1378 The plague in the north of England. In this year Greenland was discovered.