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Events

Politics and world affairs

France

April 6: In the Battle of Brignais, marauding dismissed mercenaries of the Grandes Compagnies defeat the Tard-Venus, who were originally brought into the country to fight on the side of France in the Hundred Years' War against England, destroying a French army under the command of Jacques I. de Bourbon, comte de La Marche and Jean de Melun, Count of Tancarville. They then devastate the county of La Marche. The threat of dismissed mercenaries can only be tackled in France years later.

Emirate of Granada
Emir Muhammad VI. of Granada loses the power struggle against his predecessor Muhammad V, supported by the Merinids in Morocco, and flees from him to Seville, where he hopes for help from Peter I of Castile, but is immediately executed by him on April 25. Muhammad V can restore his rule in the emirate of the Nasrids.

North-East and Central Europe
April 16: Forces of the German Order destroy the city of Kaunas.
Origin and growth of the Old Confederation: Emperor Charles IV. Recognizes Zurich's alliances with the Confederation.
The Lithuanian Grand Duke Algirdas and his brother Kęstutis defeat the Golden Horde in the Battle of the Blue Water on the Synjucha River near Torhowytsia and take Kiev and Podolien. The Principality of Kiev will be annexed to their empire.

Crusades
King Peter I of Cyprus, formally also titular king of Jerusalem, tries to revive the crusade idea to the Holy Land. Together with his Chancellor Philippe de Mézières and the papal legate Peter Thomas, he undertakes an extended trip to Europe to promote his idea. He meets with Pope Urban V and numerous monarchs, including King John II of France and Emperor Charles IV. Until 1365 he succeeded in assembling an army for his crusade.

Balkans
Adrianople is conquered by the Ottomans.
Prince Balša I of the Balšić family died. The dominion he has built up in the Zeta and around Shkodra, he inherits to his sons Stracimir, Đurađ and Balša II.

Culture and society
After the sinking of the island of Rungholt in the second Marcellus flood (see below), many of the fishermen and farmers who have become homeless come together to make a living together. The so-called wogemen spreading fear and terror do this by raids and raids on small farmsteads and by boarding small merchant ships in order to recover in this way what the “Blanke Hans” had previously taken from them. For this purpose, they settle in the village of Westerhever and erect a Trutzburg, the Wogemannsburg, at a point that is difficult to access.
around 1362: The house Fürsteneck in Frankfurt am Main is built. A handed down, extensive contract of May 18, which the sex of Holzhausen with his