1373
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| 1373 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1373 MCCCLXXIII |
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| Ab urbe condita | 2126 |
| Armenian calendar | 822 ԹՎ ՊԻԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6123 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1294–1295 |
| Bengali calendar | 779–780 |
| Berber calendar | 2323 |
| English Regnal year | 46 Edw. 3 – 47 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1917 |
| Burmese calendar | 735 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6881–6882 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4070 or 3863 — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4071 or 3864 |
| Coptic calendar | 1089–1090 |
| Discordian calendar | 2539 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1365–1366 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5133–5134 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1429–1430 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1294–1295 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4473–4474 |
| Holocene calendar | 11373 |
| Igbo calendar | 373–374 |
| Iranian calendar | 751–752 |
| Islamic calendar | 774–775 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōan 6 (応安６年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1286–1287 |
| Julian calendar | 1373 MCCCLXXIII |
| Korean calendar | 3706 |
| Minguo calendar | 539 before ROC 民前539年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −95 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1915–1916 |
| Tibetan calendar | ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 1499 or 1118 or 346 — to — ཆུ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Water-Ox) 1500 or 1119 or 347 |
Year 1373 (MCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
[edit]January–December
[edit]- 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.[1]
- April 28 – Hundred Years' War: The French re-capture most of Brittany from the English, but are unable to take Brest.[2]
- 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.[3][4]
- August – Hundred Years' War: John of Gaunt launches a new invasion of France.[3]
- 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
[edit]- 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.[5]
- Constantine IV, ruler of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (modern-day southern Turkey), is assassinated; he is 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ↑ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ferdinand I. of Portugal". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 265.
- ↑ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 108–110. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- 1 2 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 168–169. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ The New Guinness Book of Records 1996. Guinness Publishing. 1995. p. 183.
- ↑ Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504652-8, pp. 95–96.