1379

Year 1379 (MCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1379 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1379
MCCCLXXIX
Ab urbe condita2132
Armenian calendar828
ԹՎ ՊԻԸ
Assyrian calendar6129
Balinese saka calendar1300–1301
Bengali calendar786
Berber calendar2329
English Regnal year2 Ric. 2  3 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar1923
Burmese calendar741
Byzantine calendar6887–6888
Chinese calendar戊午年 (Earth Horse)
4075 or 4015
     to 
己未年 (Earth Goat)
4076 or 4016
Coptic calendar1095–1096
Discordian calendar2545
Ethiopian calendar1371–1372
Hebrew calendar5139–5140
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1435–1436
 - Shaka Samvat1300–1301
 - Kali Yuga4479–4480
Holocene calendar11379
Igbo calendar379–380
Iranian calendar757–758
Islamic calendar780–781
Japanese calendarEiwa 5 / Kōryaku 1
(康暦元年)
Javanese calendar1292–1293
Julian calendar1379
MCCCLXXIX
Korean calendar3712
Minguo calendar533 before ROC
民前533年
Nanakshahi calendar−89
Thai solar calendar1921–1922
Tibetan calendar阳土马年
(male Earth-Horse)
1505 or 1124 or 352
     to 
阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
1506 or 1125 or 353

Events

JanuaryDecember

  • May 29 John I succeeds his father, Henry II, as King of Castile and King of León.
  • June 30 New College, Oxford, is founded in England by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester.
  • July 1 Forces of the Republic of Venice and Ottoman Turks, having invaded Constantinople, restore John V Palaiologos as Byzantine co-emperor. Andronikos IV Palaiologos is allowed to remain as co-emperor, but is confined to the city of Silivri for the remainder of his life.
  • September 9 The Treaty of Neuberg is signed, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between brothers Albert III and Leopold III. Albert III retains the title of Duke of Austria.

Date unknown

  • Bairam Khawaja establishes the independent principality of the Kara Koyunlu (Turkomans of the Black Sheep Empire), in modern-day Armenia.
  • Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow raids Estonia.
  • In the Hundred Years' War, the French lose control of most of Brittany to the English.[1]
  • Wisbech Grammar School is founded in England.
  • Timur conquers the Sufid Dynasty of Khwarazm

Births

  • October 4 King Henry III of Castile (d. 1406)
  • date unknown
    • Jerome of Prague, Hussite (d. 1416)
    • Empress Zhang (Hongxi) of China (d. 1442)

Deaths

  • February 18 Albert II of Mecklenburg (b. c. 1318)
  • May 29 King Henry II of Castile (b. 1333)[2]
  • November 15 Otto V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1346)
  • December 16 John Fitzalan, Marshal of England (drowned)
  • date unknown Aqsara'i, Persian physician

References

  1. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  2. "Henry II | king of Castile". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
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