1373
1373
Calendar year
Year 1373 (MCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
This article is about the year 1373. For other uses, see 1373 (disambiguation).
Quick Facts
Gregorian calendar | 1373 MCCCLXXIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2126 |
Armenian calendar | 822 ԹՎ ՊԻԲ |
Assyrian calendar | 6123 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1294–1295 |
Bengali calendar | 780 |
Berber calendar | 2323 |
English Regnal year | 46 Edw. 3 – 47 Edw. 3 |
Buddhist calendar | 1917 |
Burmese calendar | 735 |
Byzantine calendar | 6881–6882 |
Chinese calendar | 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4070 or 3863 — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4071 or 3864 |
Coptic calendar | 1089–1090 |
Discordian calendar | 2539 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1365–1366 |
Hebrew calendar | 5133–5134 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1429–1430 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1294–1295 |
- Kali Yuga | 4473–4474 |
Holocene calendar | 11373 |
Igbo calendar | 373–374 |
Iranian calendar | 751–752 |
Islamic calendar | 774–775 |
Japanese calendar | Ōan 6 (応安6年) |
Javanese calendar | 1286–1287 |
Julian calendar | 1373 MCCCLXXIII |
Korean calendar | 3706 |
Minguo calendar | 539 before ROC 民前539年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −95 |
Thai solar calendar | 1915–1916 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 1499 or 1118 or 346 — to — 阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 1500 or 1119 or 347 |
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January–December
- March 24 – The Treaty of Santarém is signed between Ferdinand I of Portugal and Henry II of Castile, ending the second war between the two countries.[1]
- April 28 – Hundred Years' War: The French re-capture most of Brittany from the English, but are unable to take Brest.[2]
- May 13 – English anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich receives the sixteen Revelations of Divine Love.
- June 16 – The Anglo-Portuguese Treaty is signed in London, and is the oldest active treaty in the world.[3][4]
- August – Hundred Years' War: John of Gaunt launches a new invasion of France.[3]
- November? – Philip II, Prince of Taranto hands over the rule of Achaea (modern-day southern Greece) to his cousin, Joanna I of Naples.
Date unknown
- Louis I of Hungary takes Severin again, but the Vlachs will recover it in 1376–1377.
- 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. After the rebellion fails, Ottoman Emperor Murad I commands John V Palaiologos to blind his son.[5]
- Constantine IV, ruler of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (modern-day southern Turkey), is assassinated; he is succeeded by his distant cousin Leo V.
- The death of Sultan Muhammad III ibn Abd al-Aziz begins a period of political instability in Morocco.
- The city of Phnom Penh (modern-day capital city of Cambodia) is founded.
- Bristol is made a county corporate, the first town in the Kingdom of England outside London to be granted this status.
- A city wall is built around Lisbon, Portugal to resist invasion by Castile.
- Merton College Library is built in Oxford, England.
- The Adina Mosque is built in Bengal.
- The Chinese emperor of the Ming dynasty, the Hongwu Emperor, suspends the traditional civil service examination system after complaining that the 120 new jinshi degree-holders are too incompetent to hold office; he instead relies solely upon a system of recommendations, until the civil service exams are reinstated in 1384.
- March 29 – Marie d'Alençon, French princess (d. 1417)
- June 25 – Queen Joanna II of Naples (d. 1435)
- September 22 – Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (d. 1400)
- date unknown
- Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (d. 1415)
- Margery Kempe, writer of the first autobiography in English
- January 16 – Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (b. 1342)
- February – Ibn Kathir, Mamluk Islamic scholar (b. 1301)
- July 23 – Saint Birgitta, Swedish saint (b. 1303)
- November 3 – Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (b. 1343)
- December 7 – Rafał of Tarnów, Polish nobleman (b. c. 1330)
- date unknown
- Constantine IV, King of Armenia (assassinated)
- Robert le Coq, French bishop and councillor
- Tiphaine Raguenel, Breton astrologer (b. c. 1335)
- One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ferdinand I. of Portugal". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 265.
- Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 108–110. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 168–169. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- The New Guinness Book of Records 1996. Guinness Publishing. 1995. p. 183.
- Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504652-8, pp. 95–96.