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1348 (MCCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1348th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 348th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 14th century, and the 9th year of the 1340s decade. As of the start of 1348, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

• April 7 – Charles University is founded in Prague.
• June 24 – Black Death outbreak in full swing in Melcombe Regis (modern-day Weymouth, Dorset in England)
• July 6 – Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting Jews against popular aggression during the Black Death epidemic.
• Beginning of Black Death epidemic in central and western Europe
• End of the reign of Emperor Komyo of Japan, second of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders
• Start of the reign of Emperor Sukō, third of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders
• May – Black Death reaches England
• Edward III of England creates the first English order of chivalry, the Order of the Garter
• Pskov gains independence from the Novgorod Republic with the treaty of Bolotovo; Pskov Republic formed.
• Black Death in Cairo.
• Estimation: Hangzhou in Yuan Dynasty China becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Cairo, capital of Mamluk Egypt.^[1]
• Truce between England and France until 1532.
• Gonville Hall, the forerunner of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge was founded.

• John Fitzalan, 1st Lord Arundel (died 1379)

• February 2 – Narymunt, Prince of Pinsk
• December 2 – Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan (born 1297)
• Laura, beloved of Petrarch (born 1310)
• John de Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (born 1290)
• Pietro Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (born 1280)
• Andrea Pisano, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1270)