1354 Event

Elevation to duchy

Name: Elevation to duchy
Start: 1354

Charles IV raises his native county to a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1354 — the context national timelines leave out.

5 years earlier Dušan’s Code Serbia
6 years earlier Charles University Czechia
8 years earlier Patriarchate of Peć Kosovo
4 years later Republic of Ragusa Croatia
5 years later Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia Romania
10 years later University of Kraków Poland
23 years later Kingdom of Bosnia Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

High and Late Middle Ages 1000 – 1453 Towns, universities, cathedrals, plague and long wars.

Countries involved

Luxembourg

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What was written of it

A day will come when all of you, nations of the continent, without losing your distinct qualities and your glorious individuality, will merge closely into a higher unity, and will form the European brotherhood.

Victor Hugo 1849

Opening address to the Peace Congress, Paris

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