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England's Parliament confirms reform ordinances requiring baronial consent to royal appointments, to any declaration of war, and to a departure of Edward II from his realm (see 1312).
The German king Heinrich VII is crowned Holy Roman Emperor and confirms the Teutonic Knights' ownership of Pomerania and so does Pope John XXII (see 1309). The Knights next year will pay 300 silver marks to purchase lordship over Pirsna, with 22 villages.
The Grand Catalan Company that has been ravaging the countryside of Thrace and Thessaly conquers Athens from the French and establishes the duchy of Athens and Thebes, leaving behind a Turkish army that will not be driven out of Gallipoli until next year.
Delhi's second Khalji sultan Ala-ud-Din (Juna Khan) welcomes his lieutenant Malik Kafur home from the expedition on which he was sent 3 years ago; Malik Kafur has overthrown the Hoysala dynasty south of the Krishna River, occupied Madura, and come back bearing tons of pillage (see 1316).
The portolan chart (compass chart, or rhumb chart) created by Petrus Vesconte at Genoa helps navigators to find safe harbors and by some accounts marks the beginning of professional cartography. Drawn on vellum and embellished with decorations, the chart has rhumb lines that radiate from the center in the direction of wind or compass points (see Bacon, 1267), enabling a pilot to lay his course from one harbor to another (see Hanseatic League, 1375).
The pulpit of the Pisa Cathedral is completed after 11 years of work by sculptor-architect Giovanni Pisano, now 66.
Notre-Dame Cathedral at Reims is completed after 99 years of construction on the site where Clovis was reputedly baptized in 496. The cathedral is a masterpiece of Gothic architecture.
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