1352

This page relates to the year 1352 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Ibn Battuta visit the Mali and writes a report of all that it observes. It goes to the Nigeria.

It leaves Fès for Sijilmâsa, crosses the desert with a caravan of merchants (February 18th) towards Iwâlâtân then reached Niani, capital of the Mali the June 28th. It sets out again about it the February 27th 1353 assembled on a camel. It describes hippopotamuses at the edges of the lake Débo (?), Tombouctou gains and embarks in a dugout towards Kawkaw (Gao). It goes towards Takaddâ on the territory of the Berbères Bardâma, crosses the desert (September 12th 1353) towards Kâhir and the Hoggar then regains Sijilmâsa (December 29th 1353) and Fès.
Ibn Battuta describes Mali like a remarkably managed empire. The roads are sour, the country thrives and gold seems to run with flood.

On order of the métropolite Abba Salama, the Ethiopia NS avenge the imprisonment for the patriarch of Alexandria Marc by the execution or the forced conversion of Egyptian merchants who were on their territory. The tradition reports that they would have led a forwarding armed until in the valley with the the Nile.

Independence of the Moslem state of the Bengal with Gaur (Lakhnauti) for capital.

February: Charles II of Navarre wife the sister of Jean II '' the Good '', Jeanne.
May 9th: The count de Tende fire Roquebillière.
June 4th: The Canton of Glaris joined the Swiss Confédération.
June 27th: The Canton of Zoug joined the Swiss Confédération.
August 14th: Battle of Mauron, in Brittany.
December 18th: Beginning of the Innocent Pontificate of VI (until in 1362).

Attempt of the college of the cardinals to seize the power in the Church.
Nicolas-Alexandre succeeds his father Basarab Ier like voïévode of Valachie, which causes the irritation of Louis Ier of Hungary, which estimates that it is of sound only capacity to name the voïévode of Valachie.
the Poland and the Lithuania divide the Rus' de Halych-Volodymyr.

Niani, capital of the Mali, receives the visit of the traveller tangérois Ibn Battuta. Admitted at the court, he admires “ the splendid quivers of gold and money of the riders, sabers decorated with gold and of which sleeves (were) out of gold, silver and gold lances beautiful clothes of the capped women of money and gold stringcourses, furnished with gold apples”.

March 7th: Jeanne de Valois, widow of the count Guillaume Ier de Hainaut and mother-in-law of the king d' Angleterre Edouard III, with the Abbey of Fontenelle.
April 21st: Boleslas III the Spendthrift

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