Events

• Beginning of the Renaissance.
• Abacus first used in China.
• Money from Florence, Italy becomes the first International Currency .
• Philip IV of France begins attempt to annex Flanders.
• Wenceslas II of Bohemia becomes King of Poland.
• Jubilee of Pope Boniface VIII.
• The Tuareg establish a state centered on Agadez.

Births

Deaths

• May 2 - Blanche of Artois, regent of Navarre, Countess of Lancaster
• Guido Cavalcanti, Italian poet