Year 1349 (MCCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events of 1349 January 9 – The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland's rounded up and incinerated, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague. February 14 – Roughly 2,000 Jews are burned to death in Strasbourg.(External Link) May – The Black Death ceases in Ireland. August 24 – The Black Death breaks out in Elbing (m… (More on 1349)