1373

Year 1373 (MCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1373 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1373
MCCCLXXIII
Ab urbe condita2126
Armenian calendar822
ԹՎ ՊԻԲ
Assyrian calendar6123
Balinese saka calendar1294–1295
Bengali calendar780
Berber calendar2323
English Regnal year46 Edw. 3  47 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar1917
Burmese calendar735
Byzantine calendar6881–6882
Chinese calendar壬子年 (Water Rat)
4069 or 4009
     to 
癸丑年 (Water Ox)
4070 or 4010
Coptic calendar1089–1090
Discordian calendar2539
Ethiopian calendar1365–1366
Hebrew calendar5133–5134
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1429–1430
 - Shaka Samvat1294–1295
 - Kali Yuga4473–4474
Holocene calendar11373
Igbo calendar373–374
Iranian calendar751–752
Islamic calendar774–775
Japanese calendarŌan 6
(応安6年)
Javanese calendar1286–1287
Julian calendar1373
MCCCLXXIII
Korean calendar3706
Minguo calendar539 before ROC
民前539年
Nanakshahi calendar−95
Thai solar calendar1915–1916
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

Events

JanuaryDecember

  • 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.
  • April 28 Hundred Years' War: The French re-capture most of Brittany from the English, but are unable to take Brest.[1]
  • 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.[2][3]
  • August Hundred Years' War: John of Gaunt launches a new invasion of France.[2]
  • 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.
  • Assassination of Constantine IV, ruler of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (modern-day southern Turkey); he will be 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.

Births

  • 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

Deaths

  • 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)

References

  1. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 108–110. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  2. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 168–169. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  3. The New Guinness Book of Records 1996. Guinness Publishing. 1995. p. 183.
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