1379

'Years:'
1376 1377 1378 - 1379 - 1380 1381 1382
'Decades:'
1340s 1350s 1360s - '1370s' - 1380s 1390s 1400s
'Centuries:'
13th century - '14th century' - 15th century

Year '1379' was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events
Births
Deaths

Events



September 9 - Treaty of Neuberg signed, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between brothers Albert III and Leopold III. Albert III retains the title of Duke of Austria.

★ The Venetians and Ottomans invade Constantinople and restore John V Palaiologos as Byzantine co-emperor. Andronikos IV Palaiologos is allowed to remain as Byzantine co-emperor but is confined to the city of Silivri for the remainder of his life.

John I succeeds his father, Henry II, as King of Castile and King of León.

★ Bairam Khawaja establishes the independent principality of the Turkomans of the Black Sheep Empire in present day Armenia.

Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow raids Estonia.

★ Foundation of New College, Oxford.

★ Foundation of Wisbech Grammar School in England.

Births



October 4 - King Henry III of Castile (died 1406)

Ferdinand I of Aragon (died 1416)

Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmoreland (approximate date; died 1440)

Deaths



February 18 - Albert II of Mecklenburg

May 29 - King Henry II of Castile (born 1334)

December 16 - John Fitzalan, Marshal of England (drowned)

Aqsara'i, Persian physician

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