Passage of the Kilkenny Statute; it forbade any Englishman to use an Irish name, to speak the Irish language, to adopt the Irish dress, or to allow the cattle of an Irishman to graze on his lands; it also made it high treason to marry a native.
1369. King Charles V breaks the Anglo-French treaty; the Hundred Years' War reopened.
1370. End of the Piast dynasty, Poland, caused by the death of Casimir the Great; Louis the Great, King of Hungary, succeeds.
Timur the Tartar extends his domains. See "Conquests of Timur the Tartar," vii, [169.]
1371. Robert II ascends the throne and founds the Stuart dynasty in Scotland, on the death of David Bruce.[91]
A petition of the English Parliament to the King that he employ no churchmen in any office of the state, and threatening to resist by force the oppressions of papal authority.
1373. Henry of Castile invades Portugal, besieges Lisbon, and compels Ferdinand to sign a treaty of peace.
Birth of John Huss.[92]
1374. A strange plague, the dancing mania, appears in Europe. See "Dancing Mania of the Middle Ages," vii, [187.]
Wycliffe is appointed one of the seven ambassadors to represent to the Pope the grievances of the Church of England.