The fishery at ‘Kaiho-juxta-Braynford’, which may be the origin of Kew Pond, first appears in the accounts of St Swithin’s Priory at Winchester

Edward II, imprisoned by his wife and her lover, dies in Berkeley castle - almost certainly the victim of murder

The English finally accept a treaty, in Edinburgh, declaring that Robert de Bruce is king of a Scotland 'free and divided from the kingdom of England'

On the death of his father, Robert the Bruce, David II becomes king of Scotland

The earliest recorded incumbent of St Mary's Church in Twickenham, William Browne, is presented.

Philip VI of France confiscates Guienne, a fief belonging to Edward III of England - whose response begins the Hundred Years' War

Edward III, in Ghent, publicly assumes the title and the arms of the king of France

William of Ockham advocates paring down arguments to their essentials, an approach later known as Ockham's Razor

The Vicars of St Mary's Church in Hampton are known back to 1342 and the old Church possibly existed from c.1250

Edward III establishes a new kind of knighthood with the Order of the Garter, conferred purely as an honour

Edward III begins to transform a royal manor by the Thames at Richmond into a building that can for the first time be called a palace

After four years of captivity in Bordeaux and London, the French king John II is released for a promised ransom of 3 million gold crowns

A narrator who calls himself Will, and whose name may be Langland, begins the epic poem of Piers Plowman

One of four new yeomen of the chamber in Edward III's household is Geoffrey Chaucer

On the death of his uncle, David II, Robert Stewart becomes king of Scotland as Robert II

The courtly poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight tells of a mysterious visitor to the round table of King Arthur

John Wycliffe, writing mainly in Oxford, is critical of the contemporary church and can find no basis for the pope's authority

A poll tax imposed in England provokes widespread unrest, which flares up in the Peasants' Revolt

Wat Tyler, leader of the Kentish rebels, meets Richard II at Smithfield - before being struck and wounded by the Lord Mayor of London

Chaucer completes Troilus and Criseyde, his long poem about a legendary love affair in ancient Troy

John I, newly victorious in Portugal, proposes an alliance with England which has never been revoked

A clock, designed only to strike the hours, is installed in Salisbury cathedral and is still working today

Chaucer begins an ambitious scheme for 100 Canterbury Tales, of which he completes only 24 by the time of his death

On the death of his father, Robert II, Robert III becomes king of Scotland

Anne of Bohemia, the wife of Richard II, dies of plague at Richmond and in his distress the king orders the palace to be demolished