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Dominic and Asmodeus collaborate openly for the first time to remove Makatiel, renegade demon prince of Disease, who had intended to wipe out humankind with Black Death. With improved relations between Dominic and his former servitor, Dominic is informed that Jesus did pass through Hell after his death but had only stopped to speak with Lucifer and Kronos and then free a few choice souls before leaving. This evidence convinces Dominic that the file on Jesus the Christ must be reopened.

The Black Death pandemic spreads to central and western Europe and to Cairo.

Stefan the Mighty, Emperor of Serbia, conquers Thessaly and Epirus.

The Pskov Republic gains independence from the Novgorod Republic with the treaty of Bolotovo.

**Hundred Years' War (1337–1360):** The effects of the Black Death cause a de facto truce to be observed between England and France until 1355.

Hangzhou in Mongolian China becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Cairo, capitol of Mamluk Egypt.

John Fitzalan, 1st Lord Arundel (will die in 1379). Alice Perrers, politically active English royal mistress and courtier, is born (will die in 1400)

Laura de Noves, French countess, presumed beloved of Petrarch, dies (was born in 1310)

Pietro Lorenzetti, Sienese painter, dies of the Black Death (was born in 1280). Giovanni Villani, chronicler of Florence, dies of the Black Death (was born in 1276)

Umur of Aydın, Emir, killed in action (was born in 1309)

## January

Gonville Hall, the forerunner of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, England, is founded.

### 25th

The 6.9-magnitude 1348 Friuli earthquake centered in northern Italy was felt across Europe. Contemporary minds linked the quake with the Black Death, fueling fears that Armageddon had arrived.

## February 2

**Battle of Strėva:** the Teutonic Order secure a victory over the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Narimantas, Christian Lithuanian prince of Pinsk, dies in the battle.

## April

### 7th

Charles University in Prague, founded the previous year by papal bull, is granted privileges by Charles I, King of Bohemia, in a golden bull.

### 11th

Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor, is born (will die in 1385)

### 23rd

Edward III of England creates the first English order of chivalry, the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

## June

### 9th

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Sienese painter, dies of the Black Death (was born in 1290)

### 13th

Don Juan Manuel, prince of Villena, Spanish writer, dies (was born in 1282)

### 24th

By now, the Black Death pandemic has reached England, having probably been brought across the English Channel by fleas on rats aboard a ship from Gascony to the south coast port of Melcombe (modern-day Weymouth, Dorset); by November it will have reached London and by 1350 will have killed one third to a half of its population.

## July

### 1st

Joan of England, princess, dies of the Black Death (was born in 1333)

### 6th

A papal bull is issued by Pope Clement VI, protecting Jews against popular aggression during the Black Death pandemic.

## August

### 20th

Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke, English noble, dies (was born in 1319)

### 23rd

John de Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies (was born in 1275)

## October

### 2nd

Alice de Lacy, 4th Countess of Lincoln, English noblewoman, dies (was born in 1281)

## November

### 1st

The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro because they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".

### 18th

Emperor Kōmyō of Japan abdicates the throne in favour of his son Emperor Sukō, making them the second and third of the Northern Court (Ashikaga Pretenders).

## The Symphony That Never Ends

Zadkiel is the kuriotes angel of the Mystic, serving under Michael. She is the liaison between Heaven and the ethereals, as well as between Shadow and Fear. She manipulates the ethereals (who had a stronger presence than in many Symphonies) for centuries, but eventually becomes too proud, too sure that she knows more than her Superiors on ethereal matters. During the Black Death in medieval Europe she outcasts herself, using her organization of angels and ethereal loyalists to infiltrate high-ranking rival cultures on Earth and tear them down from within. When Heaven moves against the heavily discordant kuriotes, she Falls, taking her small army with her. Lucifer rewards her with the Word of the Tendril and a princess's coronet. The fallout so undermines Michael as General that he steps down and God appoints Legion, a former shedu of the Iron Fist, now Redeemed, to succeed him over the objections of the Council. Legion receives the Word of the Holy Condemnation.