Around the time of Giotto:

• Aztecs and Tenochtitlan
• Christianity in China
• Black Death
• Boccacio at the court of Robert the Wise of Naples
• Boniface VIII
• Christine de Pisan
• Dante commemorates Giotto in the Divine Comedy
• Division of the Christian Church
• Firearm Technology
• Florence
• Hundred years war and Edward the III
• Ibn Battutah travels
• Kamakura Period
• Marsiglio of Padua, an Italian professor in Paris and an heretic
• Mongol Invasion
• Philip IV of France
• Philosophy
• Robert of Naples
• Simon De Montfort
• Saint Francis of Assisi
• Universities