Major Events
- Mar 16 Holy spirit glides above fire: "the miracle of Amsterdam" (legend)
- Mar 20 Conjunction of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, thought by scholars at the University of Paris to be the "cause of the plague epidemic" known as the Black Death. Actual cause was the bacterium yersinia pestis spread by fleas, rats and other animals.
- May 2 "Quaden Maendach" in Ghent: battles between fullers & weavers
- Jun 11 Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by political prisoners
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Who Died in 1345
- Jan 15 Martin Zaccaria, Italo-Greek ruler
- Mar 25 Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1281)
- Apr 14 Richard Aungerville, English bishop and writer (b. 1287)
- Jul 17 Jacob Van Artevelde [Manner Man], Flemish broker, lynched
- Jul 24 Jacob van Artevelde, Flemish political leader (Ghent), murdered by an angry mob at about 55
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