<Li> 1315--1317: The Great Famine of 1315--1317 in Northern Europe </Li> <Li> 1341: Petrarch, the "Father of Humanism", becomes the first poet laureate since antiquity . </Li> <Li> 1337--1453: The Hundred Years' War between England and France . </Li> <Li> 1348--1351: Black Death kills about one - third of Europe's population . </Li>

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