Centuries:

13th century 13th century in North American history The 13th century in North American history provides a timeline of events occurring within the North American continent from 1201 to 1300 CE in the Gregorian calendar. This time period is known as the Post-archaic period... - 14th century - 15th century 15th century in North American history The 15th century in North American history provides a timeline of events occurring within the North American continent from 1401 to 1500 CE in the Gregorian calendar. This time period is known as the Post-archaic period...

The 14th century in North American history provides a timeline of events occurring within the North American continent from 1301 to 1400 CE in the Gregorian calendar

Gregorian calendar

The Gregorian calendar, also known as the Western calendar, or Christian calendar, is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom the calendar was named, by a decree signed on 24 February 1582, a papal bull known by its opening words Inter...

. This time period (from 1000 BCE–present) is known as the Post-archaic period (Post-archaic stage). Although this timeline segment may include some European or other world events that profoundly influenced later American life, it focuses on developments within Native American

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...

 communities. The archaeological records supplements indigenous recorded and oral history

Oral history

Oral history is the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews...

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Because of the inaccuracies inherent in radiocarbon dating and in interpreting other elements of the archaeological record, most dates in this timeline represent approximations that may vary a century or more from source to source. The assumptions implicit in archaeological dating methods may also yield a general bias in the dating in this timeline.

List of events

• 1200–1400: Middle Mississippian culture in the Eastern Woodlands
• The Little Ice Age
  Little Ice Age
  The Little Ice Age was a period of cooling that occurred after the Medieval Warm Period . While not a true ice age, the term was introduced into the scientific literature by François E. Matthes in 1939...
  
   brought a period of severe decline to medieval Europe, causing the Great Famine
  Great Famine
  Great Famine may refer to any of several historical famines:* The Great Famine of 1315–1317 in northern Europe* The Great India Famine of 1344-1345...
  
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• The 14th century in America probably also brought decline of the Mississippian culture
  Mississippian culture
  The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE, varying regionally....
  
  , especially in the northern states. Dendroclimatology
  Dendroclimatology
  Dendroclimatology is the science of determining past climates from trees . Tree rings are wider when conditions favor growth, narrower when times are difficult. Other properties of the annual rings, such as maximum latewood density have been shown to be better proxies than simple ring width...
  
   suggests that severe droughts ravaged the American Southwest and especially the Southern Plains early in the period, leading to a rapid cultural decline.
• Athapaskan-speaking people continue to migrate southward from the Canadian prairies toward the American Southwest.