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Edward III begins a final expedition to France with support from Henry Grosmont, 1st duke of Lancaster (who is appointed earl of Moray by Scotland's David II), and Sir John Chandos, who has his first encounter with the French military leader Bertrand du Guesclin. Edward embarks October 28 with his son Edward Plantaganet, the Black Prince of Wales, and his younger sons Lionel of Antwerp, 20, and Edmund of Langley, 18. The English penetrate the walls of Paris, but the south of France has been so devastated by war that the English have trouble provisioning their forces (see 1358). France's Jean II virtually restores Angevin lands to England, but his son Charles rejects the preliminary peace terms made by Jean, who is held in luxurious captivity (see 1360).
Revolutionists wearing red hats storm Bruges as the artisan guilds of the Flemish city try to overturn its patrician government.
Sweden's Magnus II Eriksson arranges the marriage of his now 20-year-old son Haakon VI to the 10-year-old Danish princess Margrethe, daughter of Valdemar IV Atterdag (see 1356). But Valdemar will soon betray his trust (see 1360).
The grand prince of Muscovy and Vladimir Ivan II Krasnyi (the Red) dies November 13 at age 33 after a 6-year reign that was dominated by his boyars (aristocratic advisers). He has tried, like his father before him, to unite Russian lands; his 9-year-old son will reign until his death in 1389 as Dmitri II.
The campanile (bell tower) completed at Florence has been designed by architects who included the late Giotto di Bondone (see 1334).
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