Through the centuries, the Serbian realm evolved into a Kingdom ( 1217 ), then an Empire ( 1345 ), before the Ottomans annexed it in 1540.

In 1345, the Serbian Empire was established: it spanned a large part of the Balkans.

The medieval Serbian state reached its apex in the mid-14th century, during the rule of Stefan Dušan, who proclaimed himself in 1345 tsar in Serres and was crowned in Skopje on 16 April 1346 as the " Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks " by the newly proclaimed Serbian Patriach Joanikie II with the help of the Bulgarian Patriarch Simeon and the Archbishop of Ohrid, Nicholas.

* Serbian Kingdom ( 1217 – 1345 )

* Serbian Empire ( 1345 – 1371 )

Serres fell to Serbia in the 1345 and became a capital of Stefan Dušan, the Serbian King.

Albanian Declaration of Independence in 1912. The Serbian Empire captured Vlorë, or Valona, as it was also called, in 1345 and formed the seat of an independent principality until it was captured by the Ottoman Empire in 1417.

In 1335 Albanian tribes descended south and were in possession of the area between Berat and the bay of Vlore, while in 1345 after the Serbian invasion an independent principality was formed in Vlorë.

The realm was elevated to a Serbian Kingdom in 1217, and an Empire in 1345.

The known Serbian historian Stanoje Stanojević argues that it entered its use in 1345, with Dušan the Mighty's raising to a Serbian Empire.

* 1345 – King Fernando I of Portugal ( d. 1383 )

* Orhan married in 1345 Theodora, Princess of Serbia, daughter of Stefan IV Uroš, King of Serbia.

** King Fernando I of Portugal ( b. 1345 )

** Former King Gongyang of Goryeo ( b. 1345 )

* October 22 – King Fernando I of Portugal ( b. 1345 )

A new Hungarian offensive took place between 1343 and 1345, after King Charles ’ death and the coronation of his son King Louis I.

Ferdinand I ( Fernando, ; Lisbon, 31 October 1345 – 22 October 1383 in Lisbon ), sometimes referred to as the Handsome ( Portuguese: o Formoso, or o Belo ), occasionally as the Inconstant ( Portuguese: o Inconstante ), was King of Portugal and the Algarve, the second ( but eldest surviving ) son of Peter I and his wife, Constance of Castile.

By the middle of the 14th century the Lord Chancellor began to be seen as the leader of the Court of Chancery, rather than as a representative of the King ; writs and bills were addressed directly to him, and in around 1345 under Richard II it became practice to consider the Chancery separate from the curia.

For much of its early existence he was closely linked with the curia regis ; even after the Court became independent around 1345, petitions were addressed to " the King and others ".

* John II ( 1345 – 50 ), son of Philip VI of France, acceded in 1350 as King of France.

Charles the Short or Charles of Durazzo ( 1345 – 24 February 1386 ) was King of Naples and titular King of Jerusalem from 1382 to 1386 as Charles III, and King of Hungary from 1385 to 1386 as Charles II.

Decades earlier, Joanna had possibly either been complicit or had ordered the murder of her husband Prince Andrew of Calabria, brother of King Louis I of Hungary in 1345.

Wang Go ( 王暠 in Pinyin: wang2 gao3 ; Mongolian name: Öljeyitü 完澤禿 ; ?– 1345 ) was a King of Shen ( 瀋王 ) of the Yuan Dynasty.

A number of insurrections followed ( 1242 – 1243, 1320s, 1345 – 1346 ) which finally resulted in Zadar coming back under the crown of King Louis I of Hungary-Croatia under the Treaty of Zadar, in 1358.

The Hundred Years ' War between England and France disrupted trade throughout northwest Europe, most notably when, in 1345, King Edward III of England repudiated his debts, contributing to the collapse of the two largest Florentine banks, those of the Bardi and Peruzzi.

In 1345, Joan was invited by the King of France to return and act as regent of the County of Bar.

It is 1345 AD, and in the English town of Ansby ( in northeastern Lincolnshire ), Sir Roger, Baron de Tourneville, is recruiting a military force to assist King Edward III in the Hundred Years ' War against France.

Constance died on the 13 November 1345, weeks after giving birth to her son and future King of Portugal, Fernando.

Aedh mac Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair was King of Connacht briefly in 1342, and died in 1345.

Aldona had two daughters, Cunigunde ( died in 1357 ), who married Louis VI the Roman, the son of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, on 1 January 1345, and Elisabeth ( died in 1361 ), who was married to Duke Bogislaus V of Pomerania.

** John IV ( 1341 – 1345 )

Louis IV was Duke of Upper Bavaria from 1294 / 1301 together with his elder brother Rudolf I, served as Margrave of Brandenburg until 1323 and as Count Palatine of the Rhine until 1329, became also Duke of Lower Bavaria in 1340 and Count of Hainaut, Holland, Zeeland and Friesland in 1345.

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* John IV, Duke of Brittany ( d. 1345 )

* 1345 BC: Amenhotep IV renames himself Akhenaten.

Her eldest sister Margaret married Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor in 1324 ; and in 1345, she became the suo jure Countess of Hainaut upon the death of their brother William in battle.

* 1345 BC — Pharaoh Amenhotep IV of Egypt renames himself to Akhenaten.

* William II, Count of Hainaut ( 1307 – 1345 ), also William IV of Holland

A town developed around the stronghold and in 1345 obtained Lübeck City Rights from Danish king Valdemar IV.

* William IV, Count of Holland ( 1307 – 1345 ) was William IV of Avesnes, William IV of Holland and William III of Zeeland

Twining also mentions a relief plaque in the cathedral which appears to represent the coronation of Otto IV at Monza in 1209 as it was described by Morigias in 1345 and stresses the point that although four votive crowns are shown hanging above the altar, the crown which the archbishop is placing on the king's head bears no resemblance to the Iron Crown.

She succeeded in 1345 her brother William II of Hainault ( William IV ) following his death in battle with later Louis IV the Bavarian designating that

After count William IV was killed in 1345, his sister Margaret inherited the county.

* John IV, Duke of Brittany ( 1295 – 1345 )

* John IV, Duke of Brittany ( 1295 – 16 September 1345 ).

John IV of Montfort ( in Breton Yann Moñforzh, in French Jean de Montfort ) ( 1295 – 16 September 1345, Château d ' Hennebon ), was duke of Brittany, from 1341 to his death.

John V the Conqueror KG ( in Breton Yann V, in French Jean IV ) ( 1339 – 1 November 1399 ) was Duke of Brittany and Count of Montfort, from 1345 until his death.

William II, Count of Hainaut ( 1307 – 26 September 1345 at Warns, near Stavoren ) was William IV of Avesnes, William IV of Holland and William III of Zeeland from 1337 to his death, succeeding his father, William I.