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Year 1371 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. Events. January–December. January – Edward, the Black Prince, gives up the ...
The Principality of Nizhny Novgorod-Suzdal also played this power game according to the Mongol rules in 1353 and 1371. [22] In the mid-14th century, Algirdas (Olgerd) of Lithuania would try to bring Tver and Ryazan under his control during the Lithuanian–Muscovite War (1368–1372) , and also played by the Mongol rules by sending a delegation ...
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low-and middle-income countries for the purposes of ...
The Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge is completed in Lombardy, and becomes the longest single-arch bridge in the world to be built for four centuries. A sermon by a German monk states "the game of cards has come to us this year", and prohibitions against cards are issued by Prince John of Castile, and the cities of Florence and Basel.
The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances. The World Bank and its private-sector lending arm, the International Finance Corp., have financed governments and companies accused of human rights violations such as rape, murder and torture.
8 March – Richard recognises John of Gaunt as King of Castile, by right of his second marriage to the Infanta Constanza of Castile in 1371, and grants him control of all royal lands in Ireland. [1] 14 April – first scholars enter New College, Oxford, the first college of the University of Oxford to provide extensively for undergraduate ...
In northern Peru, the World Bank's business-lending arm is part owner of the Yanacocha gold mine, accused by impoverished farming communities of despoiling their land in pursuit of the precious ore. The bank and IFC have stepped up investments in projects deemed to have a high risk of serious and environment damage, including oil pipelines, mines and even coal-fired power plants, an ...
16 June – the Treaty of London between England and Portugal is signed and is the oldest active treaty in the world. [1] August – Hundred Years' War: John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, launches an invasion of France. [1] Bristol is made a county corporate, the first city outside London to be granted this status. Merton College Library is ...