1366
Korean scholars develop metal movable type printing
Building on innovations pioneered a century earlier, Goryeo craftsmen refined the casting of individual bronze characters for printing Buddhist sutras and government documents. Korean metal type predated Gutenberg by seventy years, though its impact remained contained - the thousands of Chinese characters made mass production far harder than an alphabetic system would allow.
Amadeus VI of Savoy's crusade in the Balkans
The Green Count of Savoy led the last private crusade of the Middle Ages, sailing up the Black Sea coast to rescue his cousin, the Byzantine emperor John V Palaiologos, from Bulgarian captivity. He took Gallipoli and several Black Sea ports before negotiating John's release. It was chivalry's twilight adventure.
Statute of Kilkenny tries to wall off Anglo-Ireland
The English parliament in Ireland forbade Anglo-Norman colonists from speaking Irish, intermarrying with the natives, riding bareback, or fostering their children among Gaels. The statute confessed how thoroughly the colony had Gaelicized and proved completely unenforceable, as generations of intermarriage had blurred the lines between colonizer and colonized. Ireland kept absorbing its conquerors.
Pedro the Cruel flees Castile to Bordeaux
Half-brother Henry of Trastamara, supported by Du Guesclin and free companies of mercenaries funded by French gold, drove Pedro from his throne. Pedro fled north to plead with the Black Prince in Aquitaine, who agreed to invade Castile on his behalf in exchange for territorial concessions. The Hundred Years' War was about to spill into Iberia.