Casimir III the Great dies, Polish line broken
1370
The last Piast king of Poland fell from his horse hunting near Przedbórz and died of his injuries. He left behind a kingdom doubled in size, a chartered university, and the saying that he found Poland in wood and left it in stone. The throne passed to his nephew Louis of Hungary.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.