1373

'Years:' 1370 1371 1372 - 1373 - 1374 1375 1376

'Decades:' 1340s 1350s 1360s - '1370s' - 1380s 1390s 1400s

'Centuries:' 13th century - '14th century' - 15th century

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ March 24 - Treaty of Santarém is signed between D. Fernando of Portugal and Henrique II of Castile ending the second war between the two countries.

★ Bristol is made an independent county.

★ 13 May — Julian of Norwich receives the sixteen ''Revelations of Divine Love''

★ Anglo-Portuguese alliance signed. It is currently the oldest active treaty in the world.

★ Founding of the city of Phnom Penh, now the capital city of Cambodia.

★ Philip II of Taranto & Achaea hands over the rule of Achaea (now southern Greece) to his cousin Joan I of Naples.

★ Leo VI succeeds his distant cousin, Constantine VI, as King of Armenian Cilicia (now southern Turkey).

★ A city wall is built around Lisbon, Portugal to resist invasion by Castile.

★ Tran Kinh succeeds Tran Phu as King of Vietnam.

★ Byzantine co-emperor Andronikos IV Palaiologos rebels against his father, John V Palaiologos, for agreeing to let Constantinople become a vassal of the Ottoman Empire. The rebellion fails and Ottoman Emperor Murad I commands John V Palaiologos to blind his son in one eye.

★ The death of Sultan Muhammad as-Said begins a period of political instability in Morocco.

★ Merton College Library is built in Oxford, England.

★ The Adina Mosque is built in Bengal.

Births

★ April 11 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (died 1398)

★ Robert Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Wemme (died 1396)

★ Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (died 1415)

Deaths

★ July 23 - Saint Birgitta, Swedish saint (born 1303)

★ Constantine VI of Armenia (assassinated)

★ Robert le Coq, French bishop and councillor

★ Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (born 1342)

★ December 7 - Rafał z Tarnowa, Polish nobleman (born abt. 1330)