Battle of Cocherel: Du Guesclin's first victory
May 1364
The Breton mercenary Bertrand du Guesclin defeated a Navarrese-Anglo-Gascon force in Normandy on the day of Charles V's coronation, an auspicious omen for the new king's reign. Du Guesclin used a feigned retreat to draw the enemy into a trap, a tactic he would refine. He would become Constable of France within six years and the architect of a slow, methodical French recovery.
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Also in 1364 (3 other events on record)
- Charles V succeeds his father in France · Europe · Politics
- Casimir III founds the University of Krakow · Europe · Culture
- Florentine merchant Francesco Datini begins ledgers · Europe · Politics
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.