1376

1376 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1376
MCCCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita2129
Armenian calendar825
ԹՎ ՊԻԵ
Assyrian calendar6126
Balinese saka calendar1297–1298
Bengali calendar782–783
Berber calendar2326
English Regnal year49 Edw. 3 – 50 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar1920
Burmese calendar738
Byzantine calendar6884–6885
Chinese calendar乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
4073 or 3866
    — to —
丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
4074 or 3867
Coptic calendar1092–1093
Discordian calendar2542
Ethiopian calendar1368–1369
Hebrew calendar5136–5137
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1432–1433
 - Shaka Samvat1297–1298
 - Kali Yuga4476–4477
Holocene calendar11376
Igbo calendar376–377
Iranian calendar754–755
Islamic calendar777–778
Japanese calendarEiwa 2
(永和2年)
Javanese calendar1289–1290
Julian calendar1376
MCCCLXXVI
Korean calendar3709
Minguo calendar536 before ROC
民前536年
Nanakshahi calendar−92
Thai solar calendar1918–1919
Tibetan calendarཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་
(female Wood-Hare)
1502 or 1121 or 349
    — to —
མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་
(male Fire-Dragon)
1503 or 1122 or 350

Year 1376 (MCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

  • March – The peace treaty between England and France is extended until April, 1377.
  • March 31Pope Gregory XI excommunicates all members of the government of Florence, and places the city under an interdict.
  • April 28 – The Good Parliament begins in England (so called because its members attempt to reform the corrupt Royal Council).
  • May 3 – Olav IV Haakonsson is elected King Oluf II of Denmark, following the death of his grandfather, Valdemar IV, in 1375.
  • JuneCatherine 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.
  • 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; Edward is the first "English" Prince of Wales not to become King of England.
  • July 10 – The Good Parliament is dissolved (at this time, it is 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 Wyclif to appear before the Royal Council.
  • November 20Richard of Bordeaux, son of the Black Prince, is created Prince of Wales in succession to his father.
  • December 25 – John of Gaunt presents his nephew, Richard of Bordeaux, to the feudatories of the realm and swears to uphold Richard's right to succeed Edward III.
  • Unknown date – Acamapichtli becomes the first tlatoani of Tenochtitlan.

Births

  • November 9 – Edmund Mortimer, English nobleman and rebel (d. c. 1409)
  • date unknown
    • Gihwa, scholar in Korean Buddhism (d. 1433)
    • Sofia of Bavaria, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1425)
    • Yusuf III, Sultan of Granada (d. 1417)

Deaths

References

  1. ^ "Edward, the Black Prince (1330 - 1376)". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  2. ^ Dek, A.W.E. (1970). Genealogie van het Vorstenhuis Nassau (in Dutch). Zaltbommel: Europese Bibliotheek. p. 66.
  3. ^ De Roo van Alderwerelt, J.K.H. (1960). "De graven van Vianden. Bijdrage tot een genealogie van het geslacht der graven van Vianden tot de vererving van het graafschap in het Nassause huis". De Nederlandsche Leeuw, Maandblad van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde (in Dutch). 1960 (6): 196.