1376

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

Events

January–December

• March – The peace treaty between England and France is extended until April of 1377.
• March 31 – Pope Gregory XI excommunicates all members of the government of Florence and places the city under an interdict.
• April 28 – The start of Good Parliament in England, so called because its members attempted to reform the corrupt Royal Council in 1376 on April 28.
• May 3 – Olav IV Haakonsson is elected King Oluf II of Denmark, following the death of his grandfather, Valdemar IV, in 1375.
• June – 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.
• 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 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 Wyclif to appear before the Royal Council.
• November 20 – Richard 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.

Date unknown

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

Births

• November 9 – Edmund Mortimer, son of the 3rd Earl, English rebel (d. c. 1409)
  • Gihwa, scholar in Korean Buddhism (d. 1433)
  • Sofia of Bavaria, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1425)
  • Yusuf III, Sultan of Granada (d. 1417)

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 (b. 1330)
• July 22 – Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1310)
• September 1 – Philip of Valois, Duke of Orléans (b. 1336)

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