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'Years:' 1373 1374 1375 - 1376 - 1377 1378 1379

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

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

Year '1376' was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Events

Arts and Literature

Births

Deaths

Events

★ March – The peace treaty between England and France is extended until April of 1377.

★ April 28 - The start of Good Parliament in England, so called because its members attempted to reform the corrupt Royal Council.

★ June 7 – The dying Prince Edward summons his father Edward III and brother John of Gaunt and makes them swear to uphold the claim to the throne of his son Richard.

★ June 8 – Edward, the Black Prince dies, becoming the first English Prince of Wales to not rule as king.

★ July 10 – The Good Parliament is dissolved. At that time, it was the longest Parliament to have sat in England.

★ August 12 - With the help of the Genoese, Byzantine co-emperor Andronicus IV Palaeologus invades Constantinople and dethrones his father, John V Palaeologus, as co-emperor. John V Palaeologus is taken prisoner.

★ September – John of Gaunt summons religious reformer John Wycliffe to appear before the Royal Council to defend Gaunt from bishops who have become his enemies.

★ Fall - John of Gaunt, through the Royal Council, proceeds to undo the work of the Good Parliament.

★ December 25 – John of Gaunt presents his nephew, Prince Richard of Bordeaux, to the feudatories of the realm and swears to uphold Richard's right to succeed Edward III.

★ Khan Qamar al-din of Mongolistan unsuccessfully invades Timur’s eastern province of Farghana.

★ Timur leads his army against troops of the White Horde which have arrived at Sighnaq. However, winter sets in, preventing an immediate battle.

★ Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow raids Mongol ruled Volga Bulgaria (now in Russia).

★ Acamapichtli is elected Tlatoani of the Aztec empire after the death of Tenoch, the first Aztec ruler.

★ Catherine of Siena visits Pope Gregory XI in Avignon to attempt to persuade him to make peace with Florence and move the Papacy back to Rome.

★ Olaf III becomes King of Denmark after the death of his grandfather, Valdemar IV, in 1375.

★ The city of Sredets in Bulgaria is renamed Sofia after the Church of St Sophia

★ Mamluk Sultan of Egypt Nasir-ad-Din Shaban II is succeeded by Alah-ad-Din Ali.

★ Qutbuddin succeeds his brother, Shahabuddin, as Sultan of Kashmir.

Arts and Literature

★ December 25 – Geoffrey Chaucer goes abroad on secret state business in the company of Sir John Burley.

★ 22nd July – Fabled date of the appearance of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

Births

★ November 9 - Edmund Mortimer, English rebel (died 1409)

★ Gihwa, Scholar in Korean Buddhism

Deaths

★ January 24 - Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader

★ June 8 - Edward, the Black Prince, son of King Edward III of England (born 1330)

★ Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury

★ Tenoch, Aztec ruler