Other Considerations

1300 to 1309
Eyeglasses become common

1302 Dante exiled

1307 Dante starts writing "La commedia (Divine comedy)

1324 The first Irish witchcraft trial condemns Petronilla de Midia to death for
observing pagan religious traditions.

1380 to 1389
Heidelberg University if founded in 1386, the oldest continuously existing university in Germany

1387 Geoffrey Chaucer starts writing "The Canterbury Tales"

1390 to 1399
A paper mill is established in Nuremberg (Germany) in 1391

1400 to 1409
Oil is used as a base for paint