Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1310s  1320s  1330s  – 1340s –  1350s  1360s  1370s
Years:	1340 1341 1342 – 1343 – 1344 1345 1346

1343 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1343 (MCCCXLIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1343

• January 27 – Pope Clement VI issues his Bull Unigenitus, defining the doctrine of "The Treasury of Merits" or "The Treasury of the Church" as the basis for the issuance of indulgences by the Catholic Church.
• April 23 – The St. George's Night Uprising occurs in Estonia (-1345).

1343 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1343 MCCCXLIII
Ab urbe condita	2096
Armenian calendar	792 ԹՎ ՉՂԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-501 – -500
Bengali calendar	750
Berber calendar	2293
Buddhist calendar	1887
Burmese calendar	705
Byzantine calendar	6851 – 6852
Chinese calendar	壬午年十二月初五日 (3979/4039-12-5) — to — 癸未年十二月十四日 (3980/4040-12-14)
Coptic calendar	1059 – 1060
Ethiopian calendar	1335 – 1336
Hebrew calendar	5103 – 5104
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1398 – 1399
- Shaka Samvat	1265 – 1266
- Kali Yuga	4444 – 4445
Holocene calendar	11343
Iranian calendar	721 – 722
Islamic calendar	743 – 744
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3676
Thai solar calendar	1886
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• August 15 – Magnus II of Sweden abdicates from the throne of Norway in favor of his son Haakon VI of Norway. However Haakon is still a minor, allowing Magnus to remain de facto ruler.
• November 25 – A tsunami, caused by an earthquake, devastates the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places.

[edit] Births

• July 23 – Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (d. 1403)
• date unknown
  • Emperor Chokei of Japan (d. 1394)
  • Constança of Aragon, queen consort of Sicily (d. 1363)
  • Tommaso Mocenigo, doge of Venice (d. 1423)
  • Paolo Alboino della Scala, lord of Verona (d. 1375)
  • Alexander Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan (d. 1394)
• probable – Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet (approximate date) (d. 1400)

[edit] Deaths

• January 20 – Robert of Naples (b. 1277)
• May 29 – Francesco I Manfredi, lord of Faenza
• June 23 – Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi, Italian cardinal (b. c. 1270)
• September 16 – Philip III of Navarre (b. 1306)
• December 15 – Hasan Kucek, Chobanid prince (b. c. 1319)
• date unknown
  • Sir Ulick Burke, Irish nobleman
  • Aimone, Count of Savoy (b. 1291)
  • Veera Ballala III, ruler of the Hoysala Empire (b. 1291)