Year 1349 (MCCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events of 1349 January 9 - The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland is rounded up and incinerated, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague. February 14 - Roughly 2,000 Jews are burned to death in Strasbourg.[1] May - The Black Death ceases in Ireland. August 24 - The Black Death breaks out in Elbing (modern-day ElblÄ…g in Poland). October 20 - Pope Clement VI publishes a papal bull that condemns the Flagellants. The Black Death spreads to Norway when an English ship with everyone dead on board floats to Bergen. Pope Clement VI annuls the marriage of William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, and Joan of Kent, on the grounds of her prior marriage to Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent. Sixteen thousand Jews are killed in Strasbourg during the year. Ibn Battuta arrives in Fez in Morocco. Births September 9 - D

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