1349
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| Years: 1346 1347 1348 - 1349 - 1350 1351 1352 | |
| Decades: 1310s 1320s 1330s - 1340s - 1350s 1360s 1370s | |
| Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century | |
| List of state leaders in 1349 | |
Events
- January 9 - The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland is rounded up and incinerated, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague.
- February 14 - Roughly 2,000 Jews are burned to death in Strasbourg.

- May - The Black Death ceases in Ireland.
- August 24 - The Black Death breaks out in Elbing (modern-day Elbląg in Poland).
- October 20 - Pope Clement VI publishes a papal bull that condemns the Flagellants.
- The Black Death spreads to Norway when an English ship with everyone dead on board floats to Bergen.
- Pope Clement VI annuls the marriage of William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, and Joan of Kent, on the grounds of her prior marriage to Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent.
- Sixteen thousand Jews are killed in Strasbourg during the year.
- Ibn Battuta arrives in Fez in Morocco.
Births
- September 9 - Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
- Friar John, Minister of the Friars Preachers of Ireland (alive 1405)
- Venerable Macarius of Yellow Lake and Unzha, a semi-legendary Russian saint (d. 1444)
Deaths
- May 31 - Thomas Wake, English politician (b. 1297)
- June - Friar John Clyn, Franciscan and Irish chronicler
- August 26 - Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury
- September 11 - Bonne of Luxembourg, queen of John II of France (b. 1315)
- Agnès of Valois, daughter of John II of France (b. 1345)
- Joan II of Navarre, daughter of Louis X of France (b. 1311)
- James III of Majorca (b. 1315)
- Hamdollah Mostowfi, Persian historian and geographer (b. 1281)
- Richard Rolle, English religious writer (b. 1300)
- Günther von Schwarzburg, German king (b. 1304)
- William of Ockham, English philosopher (b. 1285)
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