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