| Years: 1373 1374 1375 - 1376 - 1377 1378 1379 | |
| Decades: 1340s 1350s 1360s - 1370s - 1380s 1390s 1400s | |
| Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century | |
| 1376 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Births – Deaths – Works | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1376 MCCCLXXVI
|
| Ab urbe condita | 2129 |
| Armenian calendar | 825 ԹՎ ՊԻԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -468 – -467 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1920 |
| Coptic calendar | 1092 – 1093 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1368 – 1369 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5136 – 5137 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1431 – 1432 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1298 – 1299 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4477 – 4478 |
| Holocene calendar | 11376 |
| Iranian calendar | 754 – 755 |
| Islamic calendar | 777 – 778 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2036 (皇紀2036年) |
| Julian calendar | 1421 |
| Korean calendar | 3709 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1919 |
Year 1376 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events[]
- March – The peace treaty between England and France is extended until April of 1377.
- April 28 - The start of Good Parliament in England, so called because its members attempted to reform the corrupt Royal Council.
- 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.
- June 8 – Edward dies, becoming the first English Prince of Wales to not rule as king.
- 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 Wycliffe to appear before the Royal Council to defend Gaunt from bishops who have become his enemies.
- Fall - John of Gaunt, through the Royal Council, proceeds to undo the work of the Good Parliament.
- December 25 – John of Gaunt presents his nephew, Prince Richard of Bordeaux, to the feudatories of the realm and swears to uphold Richard's right to succeed Edward III.
- 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.
- 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.
- Olaf III becomes King of Denmark after the death of his grandfather, Valdemar IV, in 1375.
- The city of Sredets in Bulgaria is renamed Sofia after the Church of St Sophia
- 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.
Arts and Literature[]
- December 25 – Geoffrey Chaucer goes abroad on secret state business in the company of Sir John Burley.
- 22nd July – Fabled date of the appearance of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Births[]
- November 9 - Edmund Mortimer, English rebel (died 1409)
- Gihwa, Scholar in Korean Buddhism
Deaths[]
- January 24 - Richard FitzAlan, English military leader
- June 8 - Edward, son of King Edward III of England (born 1330)
- Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Tenoch, Aztec ruler
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People of the year 1376 at Familypedia
13 people were born in 1376
9 children were born to the 7 women born in 1376
13 people died in 1376
888 people lived in 1376
Events of the year 1376 at Familypedia
11 people were married in 1376.
| Joined with | |
|---|---|
| Joanna of Naples (1328-1382) | Andrew of Calabria (1327-1345) + Louis of Taranto (1320-1362) + Jaime IV de Mallorca (c1336-1375) + Otto von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen (1320-1399) |
| John Lyon (-1382) | Jean Stewart (-1404) |
| Thomas of Woodstock (1355-1397) | Eleanor de Bohun (c1366-1399) |
| Jean Stewart (-1404) | John Keith (-bef1375)+John Lyon (-1382)+James Sandilands (-) |
| Otto von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen (1320-1399) | Violante of Vilaragut (c1320-bef1372) + Joanna of Naples (1328-1382) |
| Eleanor de Bohun (c1366-1399) | Thomas of Woodstock (1355-1397) |
| Robert de Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1357-1413) | Elizabeth (-aft1378)+Margaret le Despenser (c1360-1415) |
| Jan V van Arkel (1362-1428) | Johanna von Jülich (-1394) |
| Mechthild von Baden-Baden (c1352-1425) | Heinrich XI. von Henneberg-Schleusingen (c1350-1405) |
| Heinrich XI. von Henneberg-Schleusingen (c1350-1405) | Mechthild von Baden-Baden (c1352-1425) |
| Johanna von Jülich (-1394) | Jan V van Arkel (1362-1428) |
There were 0 military battles in 1376.