1376 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1376
MCCCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita 2129
Armenian calendar 825
ԹՎ ՊԻԵ
Assyrian calendar 6126
Balinese saka calendar 1297–1298
Bengali calendar 782–783
Berber calendar 2326
English Regnal year 49 Edw. 3 – 50 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar 1920
Burmese calendar 738
Byzantine calendar 6884–6885
Chinese calendar 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
4073 or 3866
    — to —
丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
4074 or 3867
Coptic calendar 1092–1093
Discordian calendar 2542
Ethiopian calendar 1368–1369
Hebrew calendar 5136–5137
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1432–1433
 - Shaka Samvat 1297–1298
 - Kali Yuga 4476–4477
Holocene calendar 11376
Igbo calendar 376–377
Iranian calendar 754–755
Islamic calendar 777–778
Japanese calendar Eiwa 2
(永和２年)
Javanese calendar 1289–1290
Julian calendar 1376
MCCCLXXVI
Korean calendar 3709
Minguo calendar 536 before ROC
民前536年
Nanakshahi calendar −92
Thai solar calendar 1918–1919
Tibetan calendar ཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་
(female Wood-Hare)
1502 or 1121 or 349
    — to —
མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་
(male Fire-Dragon)
1503 or 1122 or 350

Year 1376 (MCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

  • March – The peace treaty between England and France is extended until April, 1377.
  • March 31 – Pope Gregory XI excommunicates all members of the government of Florence, and places the city under an interdict.
  • April 28 – The Good Parliament begins in England (so called because its members attempt to reform the corrupt Royal Council).
  • May 3 – Olav IV Haakonsson is elected King Oluf II of Denmark, following the death of his grandfather, Valdemar IV, in 1375.
  • June – 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.
  • 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; Edward is the first "English" Prince of Wales not to become King of England.
  • July 10 – The Good Parliament is dissolved (at this time, it is 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 Wyclif to appear before the Royal Council.
  • November 20 – Richard of Bordeaux, son of the Black Prince, is created Prince of Wales in succession to his father.
  • December 25 – John of Gaunt presents his nephew, Richard of Bordeaux, to the feudatories of the realm and swears to uphold Richard's right to succeed Edward III.
  • Unknown date – Acamapichtli becomes the first tlatoani of Tenochtitlan.

Births

  • November 9 – Edmund Mortimer, English nobleman and rebel (d. c. 1409)
  • date unknown
    • Gihwa, scholar in Korean Buddhism (d. 1433)
    • Sofia of Bavaria, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1425)
    • Yusuf III, Sultan of Granada (d. 1417)

Deaths

  • January 24 – Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader
  • April 6 – Przecław of Pogorzela, Cardinal and Bishop of Wrocław (b. 1310)
  • May 30 – Joan of Ponthieu, Dame of Epernon, French countess regent
  • June 8 – Edward, the Black Prince, son of King Edward III of England (b. 1330)[1]
  • July 22 – Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1310)
  • September 30 – Adelaide of Vianden, German countess[2][3]

References

  1. ^ "Edward, the Black Prince (1330 - 1376)". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  2. ^ Dek, A.W.E. (1970). Genealogie van het Vorstenhuis Nassau (in Dutch). Zaltbommel: Europese Bibliotheek. p. 66.
  3. ^ De Roo van Alderwerelt, J.K.H. (1960). "De graven van Vianden. Bijdrage tot een genealogie van het geslacht der graven van Vianden tot de vererving van het graafschap in het Nassause huis". De Nederlandsche Leeuw, Maandblad van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde (in Dutch). 1960 (6): 196.