1377

Year 1377 (MCCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1377 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1377
MCCCLXXVII
Ab urbe condita2130
Armenian calendar826
ԹՎ ՊԻԶ
Assyrian calendar6127
Balinese saka calendar1298–1299
Bengali calendar784
Berber calendar2327
English Regnal year50 Edw. 3  1 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar1921
Burmese calendar739
Byzantine calendar6885–6886
Chinese calendar丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
4073 or 4013
     to 
丁巳年 (Fire Snake)
4074 or 4014
Coptic calendar1093–1094
Discordian calendar2543
Ethiopian calendar1369–1370
Hebrew calendar5137–5138
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1433–1434
 - Shaka Samvat1298–1299
 - Kali Yuga4477–4478
Holocene calendar11377
Igbo calendar377–378
Iranian calendar755–756
Islamic calendar778–779
Japanese calendarEiwa 3
(永和3年)
Javanese calendar1290–1291
Julian calendar1377
MCCCLXXVII
Korean calendar3710
Minguo calendar535 before ROC
民前535年
Nanakshahi calendar−91
Thai solar calendar1919–1920
Tibetan calendar阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
1503 or 1122 or 350
     to 
阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
1504 or 1123 or 351

Events

JanuaryDecember

  • January Battle of Đồ Bàn: Trần Duệ Tông, Trần dynasty Emperor of Đại Việt (Vietnam), is killed.
  • January 17 Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back from Avignon to Rome.
  • January 27 The Bad Parliament begins sitting in England. Influenced by John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, it undoes the work done by the Good Parliament, the previous year, to reduce corruption in the Royal Council. It also introduces a poll tax.
  • February The Pope's representative in northern Italy, Robert of Geneva (the future antipope Clement VII), pillages Cesena, and 4,000 antipapal rebels are massacred.
  • March 2 The Bad Parliament dissolves.
  • March 13 Trần Phế Đế succeeds his late father as ruler of Vietnam.
  • May
  • May 22 Pope Gregory XI issues five Bulls condemning the opinion of John Wycliffe, that Catholic priests should live in poverty, like the twelve disciples of Jesus.
  • July 16 Richard II, the 10-year-old grandson of Edward III, is crowned king of England. A minority government is established, and a series of continual councils rule on his behalf until 1381.
  • July 27 Fourteen-year-old Maria of Sicily succeeds her father, Frederick the Simple.
  • August The Hongwu Emperor of the Ming dynasty of China scraps the Office of Reports Inspection (established in 1370) for a new Office of Transmission, in his efforts to create a more efficient communicatory system in the empire. A month before this he noted that anyone could send memorials to the throne; commoners often did, although the only times their petitions were read aloud to the emperor were when they called for the impeachment of local officials who were not up to par with their official duties.
  • August 2 Battle on Pyana River: The Russians are defeated, while their commander drowns in the river.
  • October 13 Richard II of England's first parliament meets.
  • October 26 Tvrtko I of Bosnia is crowned.

Date unknown

  • Sayf ad-Din Barquq leads a revolt against the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, Alah-ad-Din Ali.
  • A rebellion against the Majapahit Empire is quashed in Sumatra.
  • Informed that Khan Urus of the White Horde has died, Timur of the Timurid Empire sends Tokhtamysh to take the Horde throne, but is defeated by Urus' son, Timur Malik.
  • Radu I succeeds Vladislav I as Prince of Wallachia (modern-day southern Romania).
  • Harihara II succeeds Bukka Raya I, as ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire (in modern-day southern India).
  • King U of Goryeo adopts the Ming calendar and begs to be invested by the Hongwu Emperor.
  • The Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge is completed, and becomes the longest arch bridge in the world to be built for four centuries.
  • A sermon by a German monk states "the game of cards has come to us this year", and prohibitions against cards are issued by Prince John of Castile, and the cities of Florence and Basel.

Births

  • February 15 King Ladislaus of Naples (d. 1414)
  • August 1 Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
  • August 20 Shahrukh Mirza, ruler of Persia and Transoxiania (d. 1447)
  • September 19 Albert IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1404)
  • December 5 Jianwen Emperor of China (d. 1402)
  • date unknown
    • Louis II of Anjou (d. 1417)
    • Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (d. 1446)
    • Anglesia Visconti, queen consort of Cyprus (d. 1439)
    • Ernest, Duke of Austria (d. 1424)
    • Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian poet (d. 1445)
    • Stefan Lazarević, Despot of Serbia (d. 1427)
    • Đurađ Branković, Despot of Serbia (d. 1456)
    • Guru Ravidas, (d. 1528)

Deaths

References

  1. Seward, Desmond (2003). The Hundred Years War : the English in France, 1337-1453 (Rev. ed.). London: Robinson. p. 116. ISBN 978-1-84119-678-7.
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