1337

• (Approx.) French historian Jean Froissart.

• Italian painter and sculptor Ambrogio Bondone, aka Giotto.
• King Frederick II of Sicily, mentioned in the Decameron.

• English King Edward III controls most of France, having inherited it through his mother (aunt of French King Philip VI and two of his predecessors).   Edward claims the throne of France, and Philip attacks one of the English fiefs, Guyenne.  This is the start of the Hundred Years' War.
• Edward III raises Cornwall to a duchy, with the provision that it be the possession of the heir to the English throne.
• Anavota Reddy throws off the suzerainty of Muhammad-Bin-Tughlaq, sultan of Delhi, whose army had been wiped out by plague in 1334.
• A large comet is observed over Europe.  Edmund Halley later shows that this comet returns every 76 years or so.
• Parliament passes an act limiting the wearing of furs to persons of "gentle birth", defined as having an annual income of 100 pounds or more.
• Famine kills 4,000,000 in China.
• The Visconti Archbishop of Milan conquers Brescia.
• The Scali bank of Florence fails, creating a financial panic.

1336 - 1337 - 1338

The thing about l33t is, there's no set alphabet standard. This means that pretty much everybody has their own personal l33t dialect, some more understandable than others. I, for example, when I must stoop to speaking to script kiddies and the like in their own language, tend to intersperse regular English letters, as you can see above. This is mostly because I'm too lazy to make the three keystrokes necessary for '/\/' instead of just one for 'n.' It's also much faster, and unlike script kiddies I actually take the time to spell things properly in l33t. That said: herein follows a transcription of English letters --> l33t characters. j00z d1s w1s3l33, 6r4s5h0pp3r.

A = @, 4, occasionally /\
B = 8, sometimes |3 although this can be confused for 'le'
C = ( (left parenthesis mark), sometimes © (ALT + 0169)
D = |) or |>
E = 3
F = |=
G = 6
H = # or |-|
I = 1 or |
J = J does not seem to have a l33t analog, although it is used in the construction of words such as j00 (you)
K = |<
L = 1 (you can usually tell if it's an L or an I from context), occasionally |_
M = /\/\
N = /\/
O = 0 (zero)
P = |¤ (ALT + 0164), other variations on this theme
Q = I have occasionally seen Q written as 9, although script kiddies are just as likely to use 'kw' for the sound
R = |2 or 2
S = $ or 5
T = 7 or +
U = I usually write 'u' as a capital V
V = \/
W = \/\/ (for clarity \ / \ / )
X = ><
Y = ¥ (ALT + 0165), although as noted above 'J' is frequently used as well
Z = 2 (can usually be spotted from context)