This article is about the year 1366. For the CPU socket by Intel, see LGA 1366.
1366 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1366
MCCCLXVI
Ab urbe condita 2119
Armenian calendar 815
ԹՎ ՊԺԵ
Assyrian calendar 6116
Balinese saka calendar 1287–1288
Bengali calendar 772–773
Berber calendar 2316
English Regnal year 39 Edw. 3 – 40 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar 1910
Burmese calendar 728
Byzantine calendar 6874–6875
Chinese calendar 乙巳年 (Wood Snake)
4063 or 3856
    — to —
丙午年 (Fire Horse)
4064 or 3857
Coptic calendar 1082–1083
Discordian calendar 2532
Ethiopian calendar 1358–1359
Hebrew calendar 5126–5127
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1422–1423
 - Shaka Samvat 1287–1288
 - Kali Yuga 4466–4467
Holocene calendar 11366
Igbo calendar 366–367
Iranian calendar 744–745
Islamic calendar 767–768
Japanese calendar Jōji 5
(貞治５年)
Javanese calendar 1279–1280
Julian calendar 1366
MCCCLXVI
Korean calendar 3699
Minguo calendar 546 before ROC
民前546年
Nanakshahi calendar −102
Thai solar calendar 1908–1909
Tibetan calendar ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་
(female Wood-Snake)
1492 or 1111 or 339
    — to —
མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Fire-Horse)
1493 or 1112 or 340

Year 1366 (MCCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

  • March 13 – Henry II deposes his half-brother, Pedro of Castile, to become King of Castile.
  • October 12 – Frederick III of Sicily forbids decorations on synagogues.
  • October 26 – Comet 55P/Tempel–Tuttle passes 0.0229 AU (3,430,000 km; 2,130,000 mi) from Earth.[1]

Date unknown

  • War continues between the Hindu Vijayanagar Empire and the Muslim Bahmani Sultanate in modern-day southern India.
  • Dmitri Donskoi, ruler of Moscow and Vladimir, makes peace with Dmitri Konstantinovich, former ruler of Vladimir.
  • Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz I of Morocco succeeds assassinated Abu Zayyan as Sultan of the Marinid Empire in Morocco.
  • The Statutes of Kilkenny are passed, aiming to curb the decline of the Hiberno-Norman Lordship of Ireland.
  • The Den Hoorn brewery is founded at Leuven in the Low Countries. In 1717 this will be renamed the Brouwerij Artois, and later releases a beer in 1926 named Stella Artois.
  • Zhu Yuanzhang, leader of the Red Turban Rebellion that will overthrow the Yuan dynasty and establish the Ming dynasty two years later, begins building the walls for a new capital city at Nanjing.
  • Thomas Fraser obtains lands in Aberdeenshire (Scotland) on which he starts the building of a towerhouse, that will later be known as Muchalls Castle.

Births

  • May 11 – Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England (d. 1394)[2]
  • August 28 – Jean Le Maingre, marshal of France (d. 1421)
  • date unknown
    • Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan, English noblewoman (d. 1425)
    • Miran Shah, governor of Azerbaijan (d. 1408)
  • Approximate
    • Eleanor de Bohun, English noble (d.1399)[3]

Deaths

  • January 25 – Henry Suso, German mystic (b. c. 1295)
  • April 26 – Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • May 20 – Maria of Calabria, Empress of Constantinople (b. 1329)
  • Summer – Ming Yuzhen, founder of the rebel empire of Daxia (b. 1331)
  • October 14 – Ibn Nubata, Arab poet (b. 1287)[4]
  • October 18 – Petrus Torkilsson, Archbishop of Uppsala

References

  1. ^ "Closest Approaches to the Earth by Comets". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved June 28, 2012.
  2. ^ Andrew, M. (2016). The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Chaucer. Springer. p. 11. ISBN 9780230273962.
  3. ^ "Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
  4. ^ Rikabi, J. (1971). "Ibn Nubāta". In Lewis, B.; Ménage, V. L.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume III: H–Iram. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 900–901. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_3325. OCLC 495469525.