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1343| 1100–1532 | South America [administration] | The Inca empire dominates the Andes region of South America. Its population numbers as many as 12 million. Incan society is based on a strict hierarchy, with an emperor who rules with absolute power. Their religion is based on sun-worship, and they are skilled builders who create a system of roads and irrigation. | | c. 1340–c. 1370 | Wales [poetry] | Welsh writer Dafydd ap Gwilym writes a body of poems – mostly love lyrics and nature poems – which are the highpoint of Welsh Medieval literature. | | 1343 | Khanate of the Golden Horde, Genoa [plagues and epidemics] | Tatar forces of the Khanate of the ‘Golden Horde’ are struck by Black Death while besieging the Genoese trading town of Caffa in the Crimea. Escaping merchants carry the disease across Europe. | | 19 January 1343 | France, England [Hundred Years War (1337–1453)] | King Edward III of England and King Philip VI of France make a truce under the Treaty of Malestroit. | | 8 July 1343 | Poland [wars] | The Treaty of Kalisz ends the war between the Teutonic Knights and King Casimir (Kazimierz) III of Poland, who cedes Pomerania. |
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