Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century

Decades: 1280s 1290s 1300s 1310s 1320s - 1330s - 1340s 1350s 1360s 1370s 1380s

Years: 1330 1331 1332 1333 1334 1335 1336 1337 1338 1339

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Events and Trends

• The poet Petrarch coins the term Dark Ages to describe the preceding 900 years in Europe, beginning with the fall of the western Roman Empire in 410 through to the renewal embodied in the Renaissance.