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France adopts the Salic law to exclude women from succeeding to the throne (see 1322; 1328).
John de Warenne, 31, 8th earl of Surrey, abducts Alice, countess of Lancaster, and becomes embroiled with Thomas Lancaster, 2nd earl of Lancaster, in a conflict that will cost him a number of his landed estates.
A fleet of Venetian great galleys makes the longest voyage undertaken by European trading vessels since ancient times. A quarrel between Venice and France has made land travel difficult, and warships convoy the galleys, which will hereafter make annual trips to northern Europe.
Venice's galleys carry sugar, spices, currants, dates, wine, paper, glass, cotton, silk, damask from Damascus, calico from Calicut, alum, dyes, draperies, books, and armor. The great galleys return with hides, leather, tin, lead, iron, pewter, brass, cutlery, bowstrings, Cambrai cambric, Laon lawn, Ypres diapered cloth, Arras hangings, caps, and serges that include serge de Nimes (denim) used for sailcloth—all obtained at Bruges, Europe's most important commercial city outside the Mediterranean.
Historian Jean, sire de Joinville, dies at his native Joinville, in Champagne, July 11 at age 93 (approximate).
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