text: The Red Turban Rebellions break out in China, leading to permanent weakening of the Mongolian-run Yuan dynasty.


date: March 4

section: Religion & Belief

text: March 4 – The Ayutthaya Kingdom is established by King Uthong (Ramathibodi I) in modern-day Thailand. He begins to propagate Theravada Buddhism as the state religion.

source_section: Events › January–December


text: Statute of Provisors prevents the Pope from appointing clergy to English benefices.


section: Technology & Infrastructure

text: The region of Vantaa in Finland is first mentioned (as Helsinge).

source_section: Events › Date unknown


section: Climate & Environment

text: The Statute of Labourers deals with a labour shortage caused by the Black Death.


date: October 16

section: Births

text: October 16 – Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (d. 1402)

source_section: Births


date: November 1

text: November 1 – Leopold III, Duke of Austria (d. 1386)


text: probable – Władysław II Jagiełło, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland (d. 1434)


text: Princess Joan of France (d. 1371)


date: February 13

section: Deaths

text: February 13 – Kō no Morofuyu, Japanese general

source_section: Deaths


date: March 20

text: March 20 – Muhammad bin Tughluq, Sultan of Delhi


date: May 24

text: May 24 – Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman, Sultan of Morocco (b. 1297)


date: June 20

text: June 20 – Margareta Ebner, German nun (b. 1291)


date: November 15

text: November 15 – Joanna of Pfirt, duchess consort of Austria


date: June 4

section: Geopolitics & Diplomacy

text: June 4 – Glarus joins the Old Swiss Confederacy.


date: June 27

text: June 27 – Zug joins the Old Swiss Confederacy.


text: Süleyman Pasha (son of Orhan) is probably granted control of Çimpe Castle on the Gallipoli peninsula by Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos, the first territory west of the Bosporus held by the Ottoman Empire.


text: The Bengal Sultanate is formed after the realms of Satgaon, Lakhnauti and Sonargaon are united under Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah.


text: The town of Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, finalizes its alliance with the city of Bern.


section: Conflict & Security

text: February 13 – War of the Straits – The Battle of the Bosporus is fought in a stormy sea into the night between the Genoese, Venetian, Aragonese, and Byzantine fleets. The Genoese emerge victorious, as the other fleets withdraw.


date: October

text: October – Byzantine civil war of 1352–1357 – Battle of Demotika: Fighting as allies of John VI Kantakouzenos, the Ottoman beylik scores its first victory on European soil, against the Serbs.


text: After years of begging and being a Buddhist monk, the penniless Chinese peasant Zhu Yuanzhang joins the Red Turban Rebellions against the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China; he will later become the first emperor of the Ming dynasty.


date: December 18

text: December 18 – Pope Innocent VI succeeds Pope Clement VI as the 199th pope.


text: Coming from Hungary, the noble Vlach Dragoş becomes the first voivode of Moldova, being seen as the founder of this principality (some scholars place this moment as early as 1345).


text: The Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church; the Metropolitan of Halych begins to relocate back to Kyiv, after having moved to Halych in 1299. Thereafter, the Metropolitan will hold the title of Metropolitan of Kiev-Halych and All Rus.


section: Science & Discovery

text: Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta reports the existence of the ngoni and balafon musical instruments, at the court of Mansa Musa.


text: Earliest surviving illustration of someone wearing spectacles, a fresco in the chapter house of the Dominican convent of San Nicolò, Treviso by Tommaso da Modena (anachronistically) depicting Hugh of Saint-Cher.


date: December 26

text: December 26 – The Earldom of Kent of the 5th creation in England becomes extinct.


date: September 25

section: Culture & Society

text: September 25 – Emperor Go-Kōgon becomes 4th Emperor of the Northern Court of Japan.


date: November 7

text: November 7 – Corpus Christi College is founded as a College of the University of Cambridge in England, by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary.


text: Lionel of Antwerp marries Elizabeth, daughter of William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster.


text: Reginald de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham becomes a Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter of England.


date: May 5

text: May 5 – Rupert of Germany, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1410)


text: Elizabeth of Slavonia, Latin empress consort of Constantinople


text: John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter (d. 1400)


text: Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1430)


date: September 15

text: September 15 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)


date: December 6

text: December 6 – Pope Clement VI (b. 1291)


text: Yoshida Kenkō, Japanese monk and author (b. 1283)


text: Following the death of his father Basarab, Nicholas Alexander becomes voivode of Wallachia, after being co-ruler for about eight years.


text: William de Ros, 3rd Baron de Ros (b. 1325)


text: Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Sicily, regent of Sicily (b. 1298)


text: Vasilii Kalika, Archbishop of Novgorod


text: Laurence Minot, English poet (b. 1300)


text: Matthias of Arras, French architect (b. 1290)


date: March 3

text: March 3 – Bern signs an alliance with the Old Swiss Confederacy.


text: The Lao kingdom of Lan Xang is founded by Fa Ngum.


date: August 27

text: August 27 – War of the Straits and Sardinian–Aragonese war – Battle of Alghero: The allied Aragonese and Venetian fleets crush the Genoese fleet, most of which is captured.


text: The Black Death (1331) subsides.


section: Exploration & Expansion

text: The Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta makes the first recorded visit to Timbuktu and Kabara, when returning from a stay in the capital of the Mali Empire.


text: The Decameron is finished by Giovanni Boccaccio.


date: March

text: March – Margaret I of Denmark, queen of Haakon VI of Norway (d. 1412)


date: July 15

text: July 15 – Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)


text: Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1414)


text: John Purvey, English scholar and Bible translator (d. 1428)


text: Helvis of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, queen consort of Armenia and Cyprus (d. 1421)


date: February 2

text: February 2 – Anne of Bavaria, queen consort of Bohemia (b. 1329)


date: March 6

text: March 6 – Roger Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Ruthyn


date: March 11

text: March 11 – Theognostus, metropolitan of Kiev and Moscow


date: April 27

text: April 27 – Simeon of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow and Vladimir


date: October 4

text: October 4 – Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1306)


date: November

text: November or December – Togha Temür, claimant to the throne of the Mongol Il-Khanate in Persia (assassinated)


text: Elisabeth of Austria, Duchess of Lorraine, regent of Lorraine


text: Sir Ulick Burke, Irish nobleman


text: Matilda, daughter of King Robert the Bruce of Scotland


date: February 12

text: February 12 – The Treaty of Stralsund settles border disputes between the duchies of Mecklenburg and Pomerania.


date: December 10

text: December 10 – The reign of John VI Kantakouzenos as Byzantine Emperor is ended, after John V Palaiologos retakes Constantinople and is restored as sole emperor.


text: Sahab-ud-Din becomes Sultan of Kashmir.


date: August 16

text: August 16 – War of the Straits: The Venetian-ruled town of Poreč is sacked by the Genoese under Paganino Doria, who carry off the relics of saints Eleutherius and Maurus of Parentium to Genoa, where they were deposited at the church of San Matteo.


date: November 4

text: November 4 – War of the Straits: The Genoese fleet under Paganino Doria defeats and captures the entire Venetian fleet under Niccolò Pisani at the Battle of Sapienza.


text: After 24 years of struggling for independence, since the Battle of Posada, Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia becomes a vassal to Hungarian king Louis I.


text: Early in the year – Ibn Battuta returns from his travels at the command of Abu Inan Faris, sultan of Morocco, who appoints a scribe to write an account of the adventures.


date: October 8

section: Crime & Justice

text: October 8 – Cola di Rienzo, self-proclaimed "tribune" of Rome, is killed by an angry mob.


date: March 2

text: March 2 – During the night between 1 and 2 March, a strong earthquake destroyed the city of Gallipoli and its city walls, weakening its defenses, along with destroying the neighboring villages and towns in the area.


text: March - Within a month after the devastating earthquake the Ottomans besieged and captured the town of Gallipoli, making it the first Ottoman stronghold in Europe and the staging area for Ottoman expansion across the Balkans.


text: Roger de Scales, 4th Baron Scales, English nobleman (d. 1387)


text: Walram IV, Count of Nassau-Idstein, German nobleman (d. 1393)


text: Thomas de Morley, 4th Baron Morley, English nobleman (d. 1416)


text: Alonso Enríquez, Spanish nobleman (d. 1429)


text: Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1411/12)


text: Denis, Lord of Cifuentes, infante of Portugal (d. c.1397)


text: Catherine of Vendôme, French noblewoman (d. 1412)


text: Margaret of Joinville, French noblewoman (d. 1418)


text: Jean de Grouchy, Norman knight (k. 1435)


text: Gilbert de Greenlaw, Scottish bishop (d. 1421)


text: Frederick III, Count of Moers, German nobleman (d. 1417)


text: Constance of Castile, wife of John of Gaunt (d. 1394)


text: Violante Visconti, Italian noblewoman (d. 1386)


date: January 8

text: January 8 – Charles de La Cerda (b. 1327)

source_section: Deaths › January–March


date: January 16

text: January 16 – Joanna of Châtillon, Duchess of Athens (b. c. 1285)


date: June 1

text: June 1 – Kitabatake Chikafusa, Japanese court noble (b. 1293)

source_section: Deaths › April–June


date: August 9

text: August 9 – Stephen, Duke of Slavonia, Hungarian prince (b. 1332)

source_section: Deaths › July–September


date: September 7

text: September 7 – Andrea Dandolo, doge of Venice (b. 1306)


date: October 5

text: October 5 – Giovanni Visconti, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1290)

source_section: Deaths › October–December


text: October 8 – Cola di Rienzo, Roman tribune (b. c. 1313)


date: October 19

text: October 19 – Yusuf I, Sultan of Granada (b. 1318)


text: date unknown – Wu Zhen, Chinese painter (b. 1280)


date: January 7

text: January 7 – King Afonso IV of Portugal sends three men who kill Inês de Castro, mistress of his son Pedro, who revolts and incites a civil war.

source_section: Events


date: February 10

text: February 10 – St Scholastica Day riot in Oxford, England, breaks out, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.


date: March 16

text: March 16 – Red Turban Rebellions: Han Lin'er, a claimed descendant of Emperor Huizong of Song, is proclaimed emperor of the restored Song dynasty in Bozhou.


date: August

text: August – Battle of Nesbit Moor: The Scottish army decisively defeats the English.


text: October 5–December 2 – Hundred Years' War: Black Prince's chevauchée of 1355 – A large mounted Anglo-Gascon force under the command of Edward the Black Prince marches from Bordeaux in English-held Gascony 300 miles (480 km) south to Narbonne and back, devastating a wide swathe of French territory.


text: Date unknown – Battle of Ihtiman: The Ottoman Turks defeat the Bulgarian Empire but suffer heavy losses and do not return to Bulgarian territory for around 15 years.


date: April 5

text: April 5 – Charles IV is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome.


date: April 18

text: April 18 – In Venice, the Council of Ten beheads Doge Marin Falier, for conspiring to kill them.


date: September 1

text: September 1 – The old town of Visoki is first mentioned in Tvrtko I of Bosnia's charter in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum.


date: January 6

text: January 6 – Charles IV of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan.


date: April

text: April – Philip II, Prince of Taranto, marries Maria of Calabria, daughter of Charles, Duke of Calabria, and Marie of Valois.


text: January 7 – Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, son of King Edward III of England (d. 1397)


date: August 16

text: August 16 – Philippa Plantagenet, Countess of Ulster (d. 1382)


date: October 10

text: October 10 – Zhu Biao, eldest son of the Hongwu Emperor and crown prince of the Ming dynasty (d. 1392)


text: Manuel Chrysoloras, Byzantine humanist (d. 1415)


text: Acamapichtli, 1st tlatoani (monarch) of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City), 1375-1395 (d. 1395)


text: Konrad von Jungingen, German 25th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order


text: Mircea the Elder, Voivode of Wallachia (d. 1418)


text: Foelke Kampana, Frisian lady and regent (d. 1418)


text: January 7 – Inês de Castro, lover of King Peter I of Portugal (murdered) (b. 1325)


date: April 17

text: April 17 – Marin Falier, Doge of Venice (b. 1285)


date: April 22

text: April 22 – Eleanor of Woodstock, countess regent of Guelders, eldest daughter of King Edward II of England (b. 1318)


date: May

text: May – Guo Zixing, Chinese Red Turban rebel leader


text: May – Red Turban Rebellions: Guo Zixing dies, leaving his forces to the command of his son-in-law, Zhu Yuanzhang. Guo's successors are later killed in battle while trying to capture Nanjing.


date: August 3

text: August 3 – Bartholomew de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh


date: December 5

text: December 5 – John III, Duke of Brabant (b. 1300)


date: December 20

text: December 20 – Stefan Dušan, Emperor of Serbia


text: date unknown – Bettina d'Andrea, Italian lawyer and professor


date: December 25

text: December 25 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, promulgates the Golden Bull, a constitution for his empire.


date: January 20

text: January 20 – Edward Balliol surrenders his title as King of Scotland, to Edward III of England.


date: June 17

text: June 17 – The city of Lwów is granted Magdeburg rights by Casimir III the Great, King of Poland. The advantages of the rights are not only economic, but also political.


date: September 19

text: September 19 – Hundred Years' War – Battle of Poitiers: The English, commanded by Edward the Black Prince, defeat the French. The greatly outnumbered English forces not only rout the French, but capture the French king John II of France and his youngest son, the future Philip the Bold of Burgundy.


date: October 17

text: October 17 – Erik XII proclaims himself king of Sweden, in opposition to his father, King Magnus IV. Thus begins a civil war in Sweden between father and son, which will last until Erik's death in 1359.


text: Ghazan II replaces Anushirwan as ruler of the Ilkhanate in Persia.


text: Zhu Yuanzhang, one of the leaders in the Red Turban Rebellion, captures the city of Nanjing from the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty in China; from then on it becomes his base of power, and the capital of a new dynasty he would establish in 1368, the Ming dynasty.


text: The Hanseatic League, a trading alliance between many cities in northern Europe, first meets.


text: The majority of the Great Pyramid of Giza's limestone casing stones are removed by Bahri Sultan An-Nasir Hasan, to build fortresses and mosques in the nearby city of Cairo, leaving the first of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World in the step-stone condition in which it remains into modern times.


text: The Castelvecchio Bridge in Verona is probably completed this year; its main span of 48.7 m ft is the world's longest arch at this time.


section: Disasters & Accidents

text: ca. February – Burnt Candlemas: Edward III of England burns down every town and village in Lothian, Scotland.


date: October 18

text: October 18 (St Luke's Day) – The Basel earthquake affects northern Switzerland, with a maximum MSK intensity of IX–X (Destructive–Devastating), leaving around 1,000 dead. It is the most damaging intraplate earthquake known to have occurred in central Europe.


text: Sweden's first guild privileges (for tailors) are issued in Stockholm.


date: July 29

text: July 29 – Martin of Aragon (d. 1410)


text: Ingegerd Knutsdotter, Swedish abbess (d. 1412)


text: Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (d. 1387)


date: January 10

text: January 10 – Toqto'a, Yuan dynasty official who was murdered (b. 1314)


date: June 23

text: June 23 – Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut (b. 1311)


text: September 19 (killed at the Battle of Poitiers):


text: Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1311)


text: Zheng Yunduan, Chinese poet (b. c. 1327)


text: Harihara I, founder of the Vijayanagara Empire


text: Walter VI, Count of Brienne, Constable of France (b. 1304)


date: October 3

text: October 3 – The Treaty of Berwick ends the Second War of Scottish Independence and King David II of Scotland is released by the English in return for a ransom.


text: The Blue Horde unseats Ghazan II as the ruler of the Il-Khanate, and appoints their own governor.


text: Rao Kanhadev becomes Rathore ruler of Marwar (part of modern-day India).


text: Battle of Bubat: The Sundanese royal family is massacred by the Majapahit Army on the orders of Gajah Mada; the death toll includes Sundanese King Lingga Buana and Princess Dyah Pitaloka Citraresmi, who commits suicide.


date: July 9

text: July 9 – Construction formally begins on Charles Bridge in Prague.


text: The Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat (Famous Wat Yai) Temple is constructed in Phitsanulok, Thailand.


text: The first public exhibition of the Shroud of Turin is recorded.


section: Health & Medicine

text: Influenza is first identified as a disease.


date: February 3

text: February 3 – The Estates General in France meets and passes Étienne Marcel's Great Ordinance in an attempt to impose limits on the monarchy, in particular in fiscal and monetary matters.


date: April 28

text: April 28 – Erik Magnusson is recognized as king of most of Sweden, in opposition to his father, King Magnus.


date: April 11

text: April 11 – King John I of Portugal (d. 1433)


text: Art mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh, King of Leinster (d. 1417)


text: Hugo von Montfort, Austrian minstrel (d. 1423)


text: Je Tsongkhapa, founder of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism (d. 1419)


text: Fang Xiaoru, Confucian scholar (d. 1402)


text: Anna of Trebizond, Queen of Georgia (d. 1406)


date: January 18

text: January 18 – Maria of Portugal, infanta (b. 1313)


date: May 28

text: May 28 – Peter I becomes King of Portugal, after the death of his father, Alfonso IV.


text: May 28 – King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)


date: July 13

text: July 13 – Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Italian jurist (b. 1313)


date: July 22

text: July 22 – On the death of Jani Beg, he is succeeded as Khan of the Blue Horde by his son Berdi Beg who orders the death of at least 12 of his close kinsmen to secure his position.


text: Rao Tida, Rathore ruler of Marwar


text: Kazerouni, Masoud, Persian physician


text: Ziauddin Barani, historian and political thinker of the Delhi Sultanate (b. 1285)


text: Jani Beg, Khan of the Blue Horde


text: Usman Serajuddin, court scholar of the Bengal Sultanate (b. 1258)


date: February 18

text: February 18 – Treaty of Zadar, between Louis I of Hungary/Croatia and the Republic of Venice: The Venetians lose influence over their former Dalmatian holdings.


date: June 27

text: June 27 – The Republic of Ragusa is founded, after being freed from the Republic of Venice.


text: January 10 – Muhammad II as Said becomes ruler of the Marinid dynasty in modern-day Morocco after the assassination of Abu Inan Faris.


text: May 28 – Hundred Years' War: The Jacquerie – A peasant rebellion begins in France, which consumes the Beauvais, and allies with Étienne Marcel's seizure of Paris.


date: July 10

text: July 10 – Battle of Mello: The Jacquerie rebellion is defeated by a coalition of nobles, led by Charles II of Navarre.


text: Shah Shuja overthrows his father, Mubarazuddin Muhammad, as leader of the Muzaffarid tribe.


text: Mubariz al-Din Muhammad, leader of the Arab Muzaffarid tribe, expels the Blue Horde from Ilkhanate territory in Persia. The Muzaffarid then release control of the Il-Khanate, after being marched on by the Mongol Jalayirid tribe, ruled by Shaikh Uvais. Shaikh Uvais becomes the new Il-Khan. The Ilkhanate is effectively now disbanded, and replaced by the Jalayirid dynasty of Persia.


text: Estimation: Nanjing in Yuan China becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Hangzhou in Yuan China.


date: March 16

text: March 16 – King Haakon VI of Norway designates the city of Skien as a city with trading privileges, making it the sixth town with city status in Norway.


date: February 20

text: February 20 – Eleanor of Aragon, queen of John I of Castile (d. 1382)


date: August 24

text: August 24 – King John I of Castile (d. 1390)


date: September 25

text: September 25 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1408)


text: Anne of Auvergne, Sovereign Dauphine of Auvergne and Countess of Forez (d. 1417)


text: Ide Pedersdatter Falk, Danish noblewoman (d. 1399)


date: January 6

text: January 6 – Gertrude van der Oosten, Dutch beguine


date: January 10

text: January 10 – Abu Inan Faris, Marinid ruler of Morocco (b. 1329)


date: February 11

text: February 11 – Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah, first Bahmani Sultan of Deccan


text: February 11 – Mohammed Shah I becomes Bahmani Sultan of Deccan (part of modern-day southern India) after the death of Sultan Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah.


date: June 7

text: June 7 – Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shōgun (b. 1305)


date: July 31

text: July 31 – Étienne Marcel, Provost of the merchants of Paris


date: August 16

text: August 16 – Albert II, Duke of Austria (b. 1298)


date: August 22

text: August 22 – Isabella of France, queen consort of Edward II of England (b. 1295)


date: November

text: November – Gregory of Rimini, Italian philosopher


date: December 29

text: December 29 – Niels Bugge, Danish magnate and rebel leader (murdered) (b. 1300)


text: date unknown – Brian MacCathmhaoil, Irish Bishop of Clogher (plague)


text: c. June – Guillaume Cale, French peasant revolutionary (executed)


date: May 25

text: May 25 – The French States-General repudiates the terms of the Second Treaty of London, signed earlier in the year between England and France.


date: December 19

text: December 19 – The Catalan Courts are held in Cervera, giving birth to the Deputation of the General of Catalonia (Diputació del General de Catalunya), also called Generalitat of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya).


text: Berlin joins the Hanseatic League.


text: earliest possible date – Bogdan I becomes Prince of Moldavia (modern-day Moldova) after freeing it from Hungarian control. He will be ancestor of the House of Bogdan, who will rule Moldavia for more than three centuries.


date: August 23

text: August 23 – Ismail II overthrows his uncle, Muhammed V, as Sultan of Granada (in modern-day Spain).


text: probable date – Battle of Megara: A Christian coalition defeats a Turkish raider fleet.


text: Shah Mahmud overthrows his brother, Shah Shuja, as leader of the Muzaffarid tribe in Persia.


text: Abu Salim Ali II overthrows Muhammad II as-Said as ruler of the Marinid dynasty, in modern-day Morocco.


text: The Zayanids under Abu Hamuw II recapture Kingdom of Tlemcen in Algeria.


date: July 4

text: July 4 – Francesco II Ordelaffi surrenders to the Papal commander, Gil de Albornoz.


date: September

text: September – Margaret, Countess of Tyrol, and her second husband, Louis V, Duke of Bavaria, are absolved from excommunication.


text: Ananda Patel (considered common ancestor for most of the modern-day population of Bhadran) moves to Bhadran from Anklav.


date: January 11

text: January 11 – Emperor Go-En'yū of Japan (d. 1393)


date: May 19

text: May 19 - Francesco Novello da Carrara, Italian lord (d. 1406)


date: July 15

text: July 15 – Antonio Correr, Spanish cardinal (d. 1445)


text: Sheikh Bedreddin, Ottoman mystic and revolutionary (d. 1420)


text: Ashikaga Ujimitsu, Japanese warrior, (d. 1398)


text: Ibn al-Majdi, Egyptian astronomer (d. 1447)


text: John III, Count of Armagnac, French count (d. 1391)


text: Intharacha, Thai king, (d. 1424)


text: James Butler, Irish nobleman (d. 1405)


text: Niccolò da Uzzano, Italian politician, (d. 1431)


text: John V, German nobleman (d. 1437)


text: Wang Zhong, Chinese marquis (d. 1409)


text: probable – Owain Glyndŵr, last Welsh Prince of Wales (d. 1416)


text: John Dinham, English knight (d 1428)


date: June 21

text: June 21 – Upon the death of Erik Magnusson, his claims to the Swedish throne die with him, and power is restored undivided to his father, King Magnus. With this unexpected death of Erik Magnusson, a previous promise to give Helsingborg to Denmark was reneged on by Magnus IV Eriksson. But Valdemar IV Atterdag was far too ambitious a ruler to have his plan to reassemble the Danish kingdom fall into pieces, and so he proceeded to invade Scania the next year with his mercenary army.


text: June 21 – Erik Magnusson, king of Sweden since 1356 (b. 1339)


date: August

text: August – Qulpa becomes Khan of the Blue Horde after the death of Berdi Beg.


date: October 10

text: October 10 – King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1310)


date: October 25

text: October 25 – Beatrice of Castile, queen consort of Portugal (b. 1293)


date: November 13

text: November 13 – Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Moscovy (b. 1326)


date: December 14

text: December 14 – Cangrande II della Scala, Lord of Verona (b. 1332)


text: date unknown – Jeanne de Clisson, French noblewoman and privateer (b. 1300)


text: Hadrian uncovers a new conspiracy among certain senators. He adopts Lucius Aelius as his heir.

source_section: Events › By place › Roman Empire


text: Following the Bar Kokhba revolt, Emperor Hadrian expels the Jews from Judea, and receives a triumphal arch near Scythopolis. The Roman province of Iudaea (plus Galilee) becomes Syria Palaestina (the name Palestine as a designation for this land has been used since at least the 5th century BC (mentioned by Herodotus)).


text: The war against the Suebi begins.


text: Hadrian dictates his memoirs at his villa near Tivoli (Tibur) outside Rome.


text: Pope Hyginus succeeds Pope Telesphorus as the ninth pope of Rome according to tradition.

source_section: Events › By topic › Religion


text: Change of Bishop of Byzantium from Bishop Eleutherius to Bishop Felix.


text: First year of Yonghe era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.

source_section: Events › By place › Asia


date: May 24

text: May 24 – Judah ben Dama, one of the Ten Martyrs


text: Gajabahu I, king of Raja Rata (modern Sri Lanka)


text: Lucius Julius Servianus, Roman politician (b. AD 45)


date: October 24

text: October 24 – The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War. Under its terms, Edward III of England gives up his claim to the French throne, and releases King John II of France in return for French land, including Calais and Gascony.


text: King Valdemar IV Atterdag of Denmark reconquers Scania, which has been in Swedish possession since 1332.


text: Dmitri Konstantinovich is installed as ruler of Vladimir (in modern-day western Russia) by the Khan of the White Horde.


date: June

text: June – Valdemar IV Atterdag attacks Skåne and conquers Lindholmen Castle.


text: August – Peace is concluded between Sweden and Denmark with the arbitration in Helsingborg. Magnus IV Eriksson cedes the Scanian lands except northern Halland to Denmark. In return, Valdemar IV Atterdag must help Magnus against his domestic enemies.


text: Muhammed VI overthrows his brother-in-law, Ismail II, as King of Granada (in modern-day Spain).


text: Red Turban Rebellions: Chen Youliang murders Xu Shouhui and proclaims himself the emperor of Han in Wuchang before unsuccessfully attempting to capture Nanjing from Zhu Yuanzhang.


text: Nawruz Beg overthrows his brother Qulpa as Khan of the Blue Horde.


text: Earliest known Kırkpınar oil wrestling tournament in the Ottoman Empire, which will still be staged into the 21st century.


date: January 8

text: January 8 – Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (d. 1410)


date: March 31

text: March 31 – Philippa of Lancaster, queen consort of Portugal (d. 1415)


date: May 2

text: May 2 – Yongle Emperor of China (d. 1424)


date: June 24

text: June 24 – Nuno Álvares Pereira, Portuguese general (d. 1431)


date: August 10

text: August 10 – Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (d. 1417)


text: Yi Chongmu, Korean general (d. 1425)


text: Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, Italian banker, founder of the Medici dynasty of Florence (d. 1429)


text: Bayezid I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1403)


text: Stanislaw of Skarbimierz, Polish religious writer (d. 1431)


text: Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy (d. 1391)


text: Andrei Rublev, Russian painter (d. 1430)


date: February 26

text: February 26 – Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (b. 1328)


date: September 16

text: September 16 – William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton (b. 1319)


date: September 29

text: September 29 – Joanna I of Auvergne, queen consort of France (b. 1326)


date: November 4

text: November 4 – Elizabeth de Clare, English noblewoman (b. 1295)


date: December 26

text: December 26 – Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent


text: Nicephorus Gregoras, Byzantine historian (b. 1295)


text: David IX of Georgia, King of Georgia


text: Geoffrey the Baker, English chronicler


text: Xu Shouhui, Chinese rebel leader, emperor of Tianwan (b. 1320)


text: Shah Shuja regains rule of the Muzaffarid tribe in Persia after the death of his brother, Shah Mahmud.


text: Isabella, Countess of Brienne, Countess of Lecce


text: Ottoman Emirate conquered Didymoteicho


date: May 1

text: May 1 – King Magnus Eriksson of Sweden and Norway sends a letter to the citizens of Visby, with a warning of an upcoming Danish invasion.


date: July 27

text: July 27 – Battle of Visby: King Valdemar IV of Denmark conquers the city of Visby by defeating the defending Gutnish country yeomen, and takes Gotland.


text: Chinese rebels capture the Goryeo capital.


text: In the Marinid Empire in modern-day Morocco, Abu Salim Ibrahim is overthrown by Abu Umar, who is in turn overthrown by Abu Zayyan.


text: Great Troubles: the Blue Horde descends into anarchy. Between 1361 and 1378, over 20 khans succeed each other in different parts of the Blue Horde's territory.


text: The earliest known musical keyboard instrument is built, with the layout of black and white keys that becomes standard.


date: March 17

text: March 17 – An-Nasir Hasan, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, is killed by one of his own mamluks, Yalbugha al-Umari, who, with the senior Mamluk emirs, has al-Mansur Muhammad installed as the new sultan.


date: April 13

text: April 13 – The University of Pavia is founded, on the Italian Peninsula.


date: October 10

text: October 10 – Edward the Black Prince marries Joan of Kent at Windsor Castle.


text: February 26 – Wenceslaus, King of the Romans, King of Bohemia (d. 1419)


text: Isabella, Countess of Foix, vassal ruler (d. 1428)


text: John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont, Constable of Dover Castle (d. 1396)


text: She Xiang, Chinese tribute chieftain (d. 1396)


text: King Charles III of Navarre (d. 1425)


date: January 7

text: January 7 – Gerlach I of Nassau-Wiesbaden


text: March 17 – An-Nasir Hasan, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (b. 1334/35)


date: March 23

text: March 23 – Henry of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster, English soldier and diplomat


date: May 21

text: May 21 – Orhan Ghazi, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1274)


date: June 9

text: June 9 – Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b. 1291)


date: June 15

text: June 15 – Johannes Tauler, German mystic theologian


date: June 17

text: June 17 – Ingeborg of Norway, princess consort and regent of Sweden (b. 1301)


date: September 18

text: September 18 – Louis V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1315)


date: October 4

text: October 4 – John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray, English baron (b. 1310)


date: October 8

text: October 8 – John Beauchamp, 3rd Baron Beauchamp, Warden of the Cinque Ports


date: November 21

text: November 21 – Philip of Rouvres, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)


text: Giovanni, son of Francesco Petrarch (plague)


text: Reynold Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham of Sterborough, English knight and diplomat (b. 1295)


text: Richard Badew, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge


date: February 15

text: February 15 – King Haakon VI of Norway, son of King Magnus Eriksson of Sweden, proclaims himself king of Sweden in opposition to his father. However, later in the year, father and son are reconciled and rule Sweden together.


date: March

text: March – Murad I succeeds his father Orhan as sultan of the Ottoman Empire.


date: June 22

text: June 22 – An alliance is formed between England and Castile.


date: October 13

text: October 13 – The Chancellor of England for the first time opens Parliament with a speech in English. Under Edward III, the Pleading in English Act makes English rather than Law French the official language in English law courts.


date: December 21

text: December 21 – Constantine IV succeeds his cousin, Constantine III, as King of Armenia.


text: March – Champa, during the reign of King Po Binasuor, raids Hóa Châu of Đại Việt, then withdraws.


date: April 6

text: April 6 – Battle of Brignais: The Free Companies defeat a French army.


date: April 17

text: April 17 – Kaunas Castle in Lithuania falls to the Teutonic Order, after a month-long siege.


date: July 8

text: July 8 – Valdemar IV of Denmark defeats the Hanseatic League in the naval Battle of Helsingborg.


text: Autumn 1362 or 1363 – Battle of Blue Waters: Grand Duke of Lithuania Algirdas defeats the Tatars, and takes over Kyiv.


text: Red Turban Rebellions: Hu Dahai, aide to Zhu Yuanzhang, is killed by Miao chieftains in Yanzhou (part of modern-day Jinhua and Hangzhou). Chaghan Temur is killed and succeeded by his nephew Köke Temür.


text: The Ottomans capture Philippopolis (or in 1364, 1371) and Adrianopole (the modern-day city of Edirne, or in 1369) from the Byzantine Empire, reducing its territory to the city of Constantinople, part of the Peloponessus, and some islands.


date: September 28

text: September 28 – Pope Urban V succeeds Pope Innocent VI, as the 200th pope.


text: The English Hospice of the Most Holy Trinity and St Thomas is founded in Rome. It goes on to become the English College, a centre for training English priests in Rome.


text: Purported date of the inscription of the Kensington Runestone, at Solem, Minnesota.


date: April

text: April – Sultan Muhammad V of Granada, returns to the throne after the murder of the usurper Muhammed VI.


text: April 6 – A fire destroys much of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.


date: January 16

text: January 16 – The "Grote Mandrenke" storm tide strikes the Netherlands, England, Germany and Denmark, destroying the Danish settlement of Rungholt in the Duchy of Schleswig, and the Humber estuary port of Ravenser Odd in England. The East Frisian island of Buise is broken into two by North Sea floods.


text: The Öræfajökull volcano erupts in Iceland, resulting in the destruction of the district of Litlahérað by flood and tephra fall.


date: January 1

text: January 1 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania switches New Year to January 1, before any other country does.


date: November

text: November – Lionel of Antwerp, son of King Edward III of England, is created Duke of Clarence.


text: January 16 – Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford and Duke of Ireland (d. 1392)


text: Empress Xu (Ming dynasty) of China (d. 1407)


text: Adolf I, Count of Nassau-Siegen (d. 1420)


text: probable – Wang Fu, Chinese painter (d. 1416)


text: Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany (d. 1425)


text: March – Orhan, Ottoman sultan (b. 1281)


text: April 6 – James I, Count of La Marche, French soldier (b. 1319)


date: April 10

text: April 10 – Maud, Countess of Leicester (b. 1339)


date: May 26

text: May 26 – Louis of Taranto (b. 1320)


date: June

text: June – Under the terms of the will of Sir John de Wingfield (died 1361), the church of St. Andrew and a college of priests are founded in Wingfield, Suffolk, England.


date: July 11

text: July 11 – Anna von Schweidnitz, empress of Charles IV (b. 1339) (childbirth)


date: July 22

text: July 22 – Louis of Durazzo, Italian soldier (poisoned) (b. 1324)


date: September 7

text: September 7 – Joan of the Tower, Queen consort of king David II of Scotland (b. 1321)


date: September 12

text: September 12 – Pope Innocent VI (b. 1282 or 1295)


date: December 10

text: December 10 – Frederick III, Duke of Austria, second son of Duke Albert II of Austria (b. 1347)


date: December 21

text: December 21 – Constantine III of Armenia (b. 1313)


text: Philip the Bold becomes duke of Burgundy.


date: August 30

text: August 30–October 4 – Battle of Lake Poyang: The Dahan rebel forces of Chen Youliang are defeated by the Red Turban Rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang, during the final decade of Yuan dynasty control over China. Zhu's naval forces of 200,000 are pitted against Chen's naval forces of 650,000 troops, in what is not only the largest naval battle of the medieval age, but also one of the largest naval battles in history.


date: August

text: August – The Revolt of Saint Titus, against the rule of the Republic of Venice in the Kingdom of Candia (island of Crete), begins.


text: Ottoman Turks seize Filibe (Philippopolis) in Thrace in the Byzantine–Ottoman wars.


text: Al-Afdal al-Abbas succeeds Al-Mujahid Ali as Rasulid Sultan of Yemen.


text: The Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan is completed in Cairo, Egypt.


date: April 9

text: April 9 – Haakon VI of Norway marries Margaret I of Denmark.


text: Dmitry Donskoy, Prince of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, dethrones Dmitry of Suzdal to become Grand Prince of Vladimir.


date: July 2

text: July 2 – Maria, Queen of Sicily (d. 1401)


date: December 13

text: December 13 – Jean Gerson, chancellor of the University of Paris (d. 1429)


text: Thomas Langley, bishop of Durham and lord chancellor of England (d. 1437)


text: Margaret of Bavaria, Burgundian regent (d. 1423)


text: probable – Zeami Motokiyo, Japanese actor and playwright (d. 1443)


date: January 13

text: January 13 – Meinhard III, Count of Tyrol


date: March 3

text: March 3 – Simone Boccanegra, first doge of Genoa (approximate date)


date: July 29

text: July 29 – John Bardolf, 3rd Baron Bardolf (b. 1314)


date: August 23

text: August 23 – Chen Youliang, founder of the Dahan regime (b. 1320)


date: October 7

text: October 7 – Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormonde (b. 1304)


text: Adil-Sultan, khan of the Chagatai Khanate


text: Jean Buridan, French philosopher (b. 1295)


text: probable – Ranulf Higdon, English chronicler (b. c. 1299)


text: c. April – Blanche of Namur, queen consort of Sweden (b. 1320)


date: April 8

text: April 8 – Charles V becomes King of France.


date: September 10

text: September 10 – Philip of Anjou becomes Titular Emperor of Constantinople and Prince of Taranto.


text: Anavema Reddy succeeds Anavota Reddy, as ruler of the Reddy Dynasty in Andhra Pradesh (part of modern-day southern India).


text: Vladislav I (also known as Vlaicu-Vodă) becomes voivode of Wallachia.


date: July 28

text: July 28 – Battle of Cascina: Forces of the Republic of Florence, led by Galeotto Malatesta, defeat those of Pisa.


date: September 29

text: September 29 – Battle of Auray: The Breton War of Succession ends, with the victory of the House of Montfort over Charles of Blois.


text: Rana Kshetra Singh succeeds Rana Hamir Singh, as ruler of Mewar (part of modern-day western India).


text: The Kingdom of Ava is established by Thado Minbya in modern-day northern Burma. Some chronicles and sources however date the event in 1365.


date: August 6

text: August 6 – Ignatius Saba I becomes the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Tur Abdin.


text: Bogdana Monastery is built in Moldavia.


date: February 15

text: February 15 – Joint kings Magnus Eriksson and Haakon Magnusson of Sweden are both deposed by noblemen, who instead elect Magnus's nephew Albrekt of Mecklenburg the new king of Sweden.


date: February 20

text: February 20 – David II of Scotland marries Margaret Drummond.


date: May 12

text: May 12 – The Jagiellonian University is founded in Kraków.


date: September

text: September – Christine de Pizan, French writer (d. c.1430)


date: November 30

text: November 30 – John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (d. 1390)


date: December 16

text: December 16 – Emperor Manuel III of Trebizond (d. 1417)


text: Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī, Persian mathematician (d. 1436)


text: Gyaltsab Je, first throne holder of the Gelug tradition of Buddhism (d. 1432)


text: al-Maqrizi, Egyptian historian and biographer (d. 1442)


text: April 8 – King John II of France (b. 1319)


date: June 19

text: June 19 – Elisenda of Montcada, queen consort and regent of Aragon (b. 1292)


date: June 30

text: June 30 – Arnošt of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)


date: August 5

text: August 5 – Emperor Kōgon of Japan (b. 1313)


text: September 29 – Charles I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1319)


text: Nicholas Alexander, voivode of Wallachia


text: Gajah Mada, prime minister of the Majapahit empire


text: King Valdemar III of Denmark (b. 1314)


text: Adrianopole (modern-day Edirne) becomes the capital city of the Ottoman Sultanate.


date: March 3

text: March 3 – Battle of Gataskogen: Albert of Mecklenburg defeats and captures Magnus Eriksson, obtaining the throne of Sweden.


date: June 2

text: June 2 – The Hungarian occupation of Vidin begins, with the capture of the city by Louis I of Hungary's forces, and the imprisonment of Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria.


date: October

text: October – Alexandrian Crusade: The city of Alexandria in Egypt is sacked by an allied force of Peter I of Cyprus and the knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.


text: The Sukhothai Kingdom in northern Thailand becomes a tributary state of the Ayutthaya Kingdom.


text: In modern-day southern India, Bahmani Sultan Mohammed Shah I invades the Vijayanagara Empire.


text: The Chagatai Khanate defeats Timur in the Battle of Tashkent.


text: Muhammed V begins building the Maristan of Granada (a hospital) in Granada (in modern-day Spain).


date: March 12

text: March 12 – The University of Vienna is founded.


text: November 30 – The Nagarakretagama, a Javanese eulogy chronicling the journey of the Majapahit king, Hayam Wuruk, through his kingdom, is completed by Mpu Prapanca.


date: January 27

text: January 27 – Edward of Angoulême, French-born royal prince of England (d. 1370)


date: July 25

text: July 25 – U of Goryeo, Korean king (d. 1389)


date: September 11

text: September 11 – Charles II, Duke of Lorraine, French noble (d. 1431)


text: approximate date – Violant of Bar, queen regent of Aragon (d. 1431)


text: date unknown – Abd al-Karīm al-Jīlī, Baghdadi Sufi author (d. 1424)


date: March 8

text: March 8 – Princess Noguk of the Yuan dynasty and queen consort of Goryeo


date: May 17

text: May 17 – Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328)


date: July 27

text: July 27 – Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1339)


date: December 8

text: December 8 – Nicholas II, Duke of Opava (b. 1288)


text: date unknown – Zhu Derun, Chinese painter and poet (b. 1294)


date: March 13

text: March 13 – Henry II deposes his half-brother, Pedro of Castile, to become King of Castile.


text: The Statutes of Kilkenny are passed, aiming to curb the decline of the Hiberno-Norman Lordship of Ireland.


text: Dmitri Donskoi, ruler of Moscow and Vladimir, makes peace with Dmitri Konstantinovich, former ruler of Vladimir.


text: War continues between the Hindu Vijayanagar Empire and the Muslim Bahmani Sultanate in modern-day southern India.


text: 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.


text: Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz I of Morocco succeeds assassinated Abu Zayyan as Sultan of the Marinid Empire in Morocco.


section: Economy & Finance

text: 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.


date: October 26

text: October 26 – Comet 55P/Tempel–Tuttle passes 0.0229 AU km mi from Earth.


date: October 12

text: October 12 – Frederick III of Sicily forbids decorations on synagogues.


text: Thomas Fraser obtains lands in Aberdeenshire (Scotland) on which he starts the building of a towerhouse, that will later be known as Muchalls Castle.


date: May 11

text: May 11 – Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England (d. 1394)


date: August 28

text: August 28 – Jean Le Maingre, marshal of France (d. 1421)


text: Eleanor de Bohun, English noble (d.1399)


text: Elizabeth Fitzalan, Duchess of Norfolk, English noblewoman (d. 1425)


text: Miran Shah, governor of Azerbaijan (d. 1408)


date: January 25

text: January 25 – Henry Suso, German mystic (b. c. 1295)


date: April 26

text: April 26 – Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury


date: May 20

text: May 20 – Maria of Calabria, Empress of Constantinople (b. 1329)


date: October 14

text: October 14 – Ibn Nubata, Arab poet (b. 1287)


date: October 18

text: October 18 – Petrus Torkilsson, Archbishop of Uppsala


text: Summer – Ming Yuzhen, founder of the rebel empire of Daxia (b. 1331)


text: May 20 – John of Ashwell becomes the new Attorney General for England and Wales upon the departure of Thomas of Shardelow. The Chronological Historian:Volume 1. p. 59.

source_section: Events › April–June


date: July 19

text: July 19 – King Charles V of France issues a royal edict ordering the bonne villes (defined as "the French town that enjoyed especial royal favour") to improve their defenses by improving town walls, towers and gateways.

source_section: Events › July–September


text: Petru I succeeds his grandfather Bogdan I as voivode (ruler) of Moldavia.


date: February 28

text: February 28 – King Enrique II of Castile sends a letter of challenge to Edward, the Black Prince of England, who has already crossed the Pyrenees into Spain with 27,000 troops, daring him to help King Pedro to reclaim the Castilian throne, prompting Edward to organize an army and invade Spain.

source_section: Events › January–March


date: March 19

text: March 19 – The Battle of Inglesmendi is fought in the Crown of Castile (now in Spain) by English troops led by Edward the Black Prince and supporters of the recently deposed King Pedro of Castile who are seeking to restore Pedro to the Castilian throne, against the supporters of the reigning King Enrique II. The knight William Felton is killed and his brother Thomas Felton is taken prisoner of war.


date: April 3

text: April 3 – Battle of Nájera: Pedro of Castile is restored as King of Castile (in modern-day Spain) after defeating his half-brother, King Enrique the Fratricidal. Pedro is aided in the battle by the English under Edward the Black Prince, and Henry by the French.


date: May 2

text: May 2 – At Burgos in Spain, Edward the Black Prince of England attempts to get himself and his soldiers paid by King Pedro of Castile for their services at the battle of Najera, but receives instead a renewal of a bond to secure the debt owed.


date: July 9

text: July 9 – Guy de Blois, Count of Sissons, held hostage by Enguerrand VII de Coucy, Earl of Bedford, is forced to surrender Soissons to Bedford in return for his freedom.


date: July 26

text: July 26 – At Avignon, Pope Urban V learns of a possible invasion of France by John of Gaunt and his intention to capture Provence, and writes to England's King Edward III to take steps to prevent it.


date: November 19

text: November 19 – In Germany, the Kölner Konföderation is founded by eight German members of the Hanseatic League (Lübeck, Rostock, Stralsund, Wismar, Kulm and Thorn, and five non-League Dutch cities (Amsterdam, Brielle, Harderwijk,Elbing and Kampen) to fight against the Kingdom of Denmark, whose ruler King Valdemar IV, has been seizing land to expand the territory owned by the Danish crown.

source_section: Events › October–December


date: December 28

text: December 28 – During the Red Turban Rebellions, Hu Mei captures Shaowu, while Xu Da and Chang Yuchun capture Jinan, bringing both under the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang's control.


text: Winter – Construction of a stone Moscow Kremlin Wall around the city is begun to resist invasion by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.


date: January 29

text: January 29 – At Chur in what is now the Swiss Canton of Raetia, the League of God's House is founded in the Old Swiss Confederacy as an agreement between nine communities to come to each other's aid in the event of a crisis.


date: June 20

text: June 20 – The author Geoffrey Chaucer is appointed by King Edward III of England as a valet de chambre as a means of receiving a regular income while pursuing his writing. By 1372, Chaucer delivers his first epic poem, The Book of the Duchess, in honor of Duchess Blanche of Lancaster.


date: September 1

text: September 1 – One month before his appointment as Bishop of Winchester, William of Wykeham is confirmed as the Chancellor of England following his appointment by King Edward III.


date: May 31

text: May 31 – King Robert III of Scotland names his son Prince James of Stewart as the Earl of Atholl, a title traditionally given to the heir of the Scottish throne.


text: The first university in Pécs, Hungary, is founded by King Louis I.


date: January 6

text: January 6 – King Richard II of England (d. 1400)


date: March 22

text: March 22 or 1368 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1399)


date: June 13

text: June 13 – King Taejong of Joseon, Korean king (d. 1422)


text: probable – Mary of Enghien, queen consort of Naples (d. 1446)


text: date unknown – Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1415)


date: January 9

text: January 9 – Giulia della Rena, Italian saint (b. 1319)


date: January 18

text: January 18 – King Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320)


text: January 18 – Fernando the Handsome becomes King of Portugal after the death of his father, King Pedro the Avenger.


date: January

text: January – Han Lin'er, Chinese rebel leader, emperor of Han Song (b. 1339)


date: March 29

text: March 29 – (14th waning of Tagu 728 ME) In what is now Myanmar, Pyanchi becomes the King of Toungoo upon the death of his father, King Theingaba.


date: April 13

text: April 13 – John Tiptoft, 2nd Baron Tibetot (b. 1313)


date: April 24

text: April 24 – Otto I, "the Evil", becomes Duke of the independent city of Göttingen (in modern-day Germany) on the death of his father, Ernst I.


date: August 23

text: August 23 – Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz, Spanish cardinal (b. 1310)


date: August 31

text: August 31 – In Switzerland, Amadeus IV, Count of Geneva become the new Count of Geneva when his brother, Aymon III, dies of battle wounds after only seven months after taking office on January 18.


date: September 25

text: September 25 – Jakushitsu Genkō, Japanese poet (b. 1290)


date: October 1

text: October 1 – Red Turban Rebellions: Zhu Yuanzhang takes Suzhou from Zhang Shicheng, who unsuccessfully attempts suicide before being captured and taken to Nanjing, where he dies.


date: October 16

text: October 16 – Pope Urban V makes the first attempt to move the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon. This move is reversed in 1370, when he is forced to return to Avignon, and shortly afterwards dies.


date: December 28

text: December 28 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shōgun (b. 1330)


text: Zhang Shicheng, Chinese rebel leader, King of Wu (b. 1321)


date: January 12

text: January 12 – Zhu Yuanzhang declares himself as Emperor of China and forces Emperor Huizong of the Yuan dynasty to flee the capital, Yingtian (now Nanjing).


date: January 23

text: January 23 – Zhu Yuanzhang establishes the Ming dynasty with himself as the Emperor Hongwu. The new dynasty will last until 1644. The Emperor immediately orders every county magistrate to set up four granaries, and halts government taxation on books. Work begins later year on restoring the surviving Great Wall of China.


date: February 13

text: February 13 – Otto VII, Elector of Brandenburg signs the Treaty of Dramburg a treaty with King Casimir III of Poland, returning the town of Wôłcz (no Walcz) to Poland's control.


date: February 24

text: February 24 – King Edward III of England summons the English Parliament to meet at Westminster on May 1.


date: May 1

text: May 1 – The English Parliament is opened for a 21-day session by King Edward III.


date: May 21

text: May 21 – The English Parliament adjourns and King Edward III gives royal assent multiple new laws, including the landmark Observance of Due Process of Law, "declaring that none shall be put to answer an accusation made to the King without presentment", still in effect more than 650 years later. The King also approves the Naturalisation Act


date: May 25

text: May 25 – The Duchy of Wolgast, created more than 200 years earlier in 1160 as part of the division of the Duchy of Pomerania, is divided among the heirs of the late Barnim IV, who had been co-ruler with his brothers Wartislaw V and Bogislaw V.


date: June 10

text: June 10 – Michele Morosini becomes the new Doge of the Republic of Venice and replaces the late Doge Andrea Contarini, but he serves for only four months before dying in office at the age of 74.


date: August 15

text: August 15 – The Ming General Xu Da sets off from Kaifeng at the direction of the Chinese Emperor Hongwu, with plans to rid China of the former Yuan dyansty Emperor Huizong.


date: December 7

text: December 7 – The Treaty of Plüschow is signed, allowing Albrecht II, Duke of Mecklenburg, to purchase neighboring Schwerin for 20,000 silver Marks to create Mecklenburg-Schwerin, jointly ruled by his wife, Richardis.


text: A peace treaty is signed between Norway and the Hanseatic League.


text: Lațcu, son of Bogdan I, deposes his nephew Petru I, and becomes voivode of Moldavia. (Other sources state that Lațcu had succeeded his father Bogdan in 1367).


text: Timur ascends the throne of Samarkand (in modern-day Uzbekistan).


date: March 4

text: March 4 – On behalf of Louis of Anjou, brother of France's King Charles V, Bertrand Du Guesclin and 2,000 troops began a siege of the city of Tarascon, which surrenders to him on March 22.


date: March 7

text: March 7 – Mamluk raid on Cyprus (1368): Acting at the orders of Egypt's Mamluk Sultan al-Ashraf Sha'ban, General Ibrahim al-Tazi lands with 500 troops at Cyprus and begins a 23-day raid.


date: March 29

text: March 29 – Emperor Chōkei accedes to the throne of Japan.


date: March 30

text: March 30 – Mamluk raid on Cyprus (1368): Ibrahim al-Tazi completes raid by Egypt's Mamluk Sultanate on the Kingdom of Cyprus and begins sending back captured treasure.


date: April 4

text: April 4 – The siege of Copenhagen, capital of the Kingdom of Denmark, is started by the Hanseatic League as 37 ships and 2,000 soldiers arrive at the city after sailing from the German city of Lübeck under the leadership of the city's leader, Bruno von Warendorp. The invaders bring with them 400 horses and eight trebuchets (long range catapults) and four regular catapults. While the city falls in four weeks, the Absalon fortress on Slotsholmen island holds out for two months.


date: April 30

text: April 30 – Henry of Trastámara, deposed a year earlier from his position as King of Castile and Leon, captures the city of León after a siege of more than three months.


date: May 2

text: May 2 – Copenhagen, capital of Denmark, falls to the Hanseatic League four weeks after the April 4 invasion of the kingdom and King Valdemar IV is forced to flee while the city is pillaged and looted by troops led by Bruno von Warendorp.


date: May 10

text: May 10 – Forces of the Republic of Venice suppress the Revolt of Saint Titus against Venetian rule in the Kingdom of Candia on the island of Crete).


date: June 16

text: June 16 – The siege of Copenhagen by the Hanseatic League ends as the remaining defenders of Absalon Castle surrender and the building is destroyed.


date: September 10

text: September 10 – Xu Da captures the city of Tongzhou after defeating a Yuan army, forcing Huizong to flee to Shangdu.


date: September 14

text: September 14 – General Xu Da captures the Yuan city of Khanbaliq and renames it Beiping ("northern peace"), a forerunner to the current name of Beijing ("northern capital").


date: November 21

text: November 21 – King Algirdas of Lithuania and the Grand Duke Mikhail II of Tver defeat troops of the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the Battle of the Trosna River, and reach the outside of the Moscow Kremlin Wall that surrounds the capital, but find it to be insurmountable and are unable to mount a siege.


text: Durrës, the second-largest city in modern-day Albania (at this time known as Dyrrhachium), is captured from the Angevins by Karl Thopia, a powerful feudal prince and warlord.


text: Moscow attacks Tver, which counter-attacks with the aid of Lithuania and the Blue Horde.


text: The King of Norway sends the last Royal Ship from Norway to the Greenland Eastern Settlement. This event is part of both the Norse colonization of the Americas, and of the History of Greenland.


date: August 25

text: August 25 – Count Gottfried IV of Ambsbe, who has no children, sells Arnsberg to the Duchy of Westphalia by way of the Archbishop of Köln, for 30,000 guilders, allowing Westphalia to complete its reunification.


date: October 11

text: October 11 – Pope Urban V issues a papal bull appointing William Whittlesey as Archbishop of Canterbury, and "primate of all England".


date: October 17

text: October 17 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Pope Urban V meet at Viterbo in Italy and make plans to enter Rome together after the Pope's travel from Avignon.


date: October 21

text: October 21 – Charles greets Pope Urban at Monte Mario, and the two ride together to a welcome in Rome.


date: November 1

text: November 1 – Elizabeth of Pomerania, wife of the Charles IV, is crowned as the Empress of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Urban V.


text: March 7 – The new Ōan era is proclaimed in Japan, ending the Jōji era because of problems in 1367 with an epidemic and natural disasters.


date: March 16

text: March 16 – 12th waning of Tabaung, 729 ME. In what is now Myanmar, the coronation of Swa Saw Ke as King of Ava is held. Swa Saw Ke had taken power on six months earlier on September 5, but waited for the court astrologers to determine the ideal date for the coronation ceremony.


text: Petrarch concludes writing the sequence of Italian sonnets and other poems known as Il Canzoniere.


text: The Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France) is founded as the Royal Library at the Louvre Palace in Paris, by Charles V of France.


date: February 14

text: February 14 – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1437)


date: December 3

text: December 3 – King Charles VI of France (d. 1422)


text: Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1447)


text: Ida de Grey, Cambro-Norman noble (d. 1426)


text: Thomas Hoccleve, English poet (d. 1426)


date: March 29

text: March 29 – Emperor Go-Murakami of Japan (b. 1328)


date: July 28

text: July 28 – With the death of Bolko II the Small, one of the Dukes of Silesia, his widow Agnes of Austria receives control of the Duchy of Świdnica, the duchies of Jawor, Lwówek Śląski and Lusatia, and half of five other Polish duchies


text: August 25 – Andrea Orcagna, Italian painter, sculptor and architect


date: September 12

text: September 12 – Blanche of Lancaster, English duchess, spouse of John of Gaunt (b. 1345)


date: October 7

text: October 7 – Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (b. 1338)


date: October 16

text: October 16 – Michele Morosini dies in office from the bubonic plague, only four months after becoming Doge of Venice, and is replaced by Antonio Venier as the Republic's chief executive.


text: October 17 – Lionel, Duke of Clarence, second only to Edward the Black Prince as heir to the throne of England, dies in Italy at the age of 29, less than five months after her May 28 marriage to Violante Visconti, daughter of Galeazzo II Visconti Lord of Milan. Lionel's death, suspected to have been from accidental food poisoning, ends any chance for an alliance between England and Milan.


text: December 3 – Joanna of Bourbon, Queen consort of France as wife of King Charles V, gives birth to his first child, the Dauphin Charles of Valois. The Dauphin will become King Charles VI in 1380 upon the death of his father.


text: Mikhail Aleksandrovich becomes the sole ruler of Tver (in modern-day western Russia), after the death of co-ruler and rival Vasiliy Mikhailovich of Kashin.


text: probable – Ibn Battuta, Arabian traveler


text: Maha Thammaracha II becomes ruler of the Sukhothai Kingdom (in modern-day northern Thailand) after the death of Maha Thammaracha I.


text: undated – Maha Thammaracha I, Thai ruler of the Sukhothai Kingdom and Buddhist philosopher (b. c.1300)


date: February

text: February – Vladislav I of Wallachia liberates Vidin from the Hungarians, resulting in the restoration of Ivan Sratsimir on the throne of Bulgaria, in the autumn.


date: April 6

text: April 6 – King Edward III summons the members of the House of Lords and House of Commons to assemble on June 3 for a session of the English Parliament.


text: April 6 – The city of Lucca in Italy pays the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V for the right for self-government, and Cardinal Guy de Montfort is appointed the imperial vicar to secure the debt.


date: April 13

text: April 13 – Joanna I of Naples, in her capacity as Countess of Provence, signs a treaty with Louis, Duke of Anjou to end the war between Anjou and Provence.


date: May

text: May – King Charles V of France renounces the Treaty of Brétigny, and war is declared between France and England.


date: June 11

text: June 11 – The Parliament of England adjourns after eight days, as King Edward III gives royal assent to acts passed, removing the wool staple of Calais, as well as specifying limits to the import of wine from Gascoigne, and prohibiting the king's butler and lieutenants from taking "more wines than is commanded."


date: July 20

text: July 20 – The kingdoms of England and Scotland sign a 14-year-truce.


date: August 29

text: August 29 – Vladislav I of Wallachia obtains, by permission from the King of Hungary, control of the Transylvanian duchies of Almas and Fagaras


date: September 29

text: September 29 – The Treaty of Scharding is signed between Duke Albrecht III of Austria and Duke Stephen II of Bavaria to end the dispute over control of Tyrol.


date: November 30

text: November 30 – Hundred Years' War: Charles V of France recaptures most of Aquitaine from the English.


date: December 7

text: December 7 – The Estates General in France approves the request by King Charles V to raise taxes in order to finance the renewed war with England.


date: January 25

text: January 25 – King Charles of France sends a summons to Edward the Black Prince, who is residing at Bordeaux, demanding that Edward appear before the King in Paris to answer for Edward's assessment of taxes on the people of Aquitaine. The Black Prince reportedly responds with the threat "We will willingly attend at Paris on the day appointed since the King of France sends for us, but it shall be with our helmet on our head and 60,000 men in our company".


date: March 14

text: March 14 – King Pedro of Castile loses the Battle of Montiel to French soldiers led by Bertrand du Guesclin and Castilians led by his half-brother, Enrique. Pedro takes refuge in a fortress and offers du Guesclin 200,000 gold coins and a promise of several towns in Castile, in return for betraying Enrique. Afterwards, du Guesclin informs Enrique of the offer.


date: March 23

text: March 23 – Enrique of Castile assassinates King Pedro of Castile after Pedro is betrayed by Bertrand du Guesclin.


date: May 7

text: May 7 – Košice, in Slovakia, becomes the first town in Europe to be granted its own coat of arms as King Louis of Hungary grants the right in a charter in recognition of the city's assistance in the Battle of Rozhanovice.


date: May 9

text: May 9 – At a meeting of the Estates General in Paris, the delegates approve the resumption of hostilities between France and England.


date: May 21

text: May 21 – The Yuan dynasty Chinese warlord of Shaanxi province, Li Siqi, surrenders to the Ming dynasty Emperor Hongwu.


date: June 5

text: June 5 – Jean de Lusignan, regent for the King of Cyprus, uses his navy to attack Sidon in what is now Lebanon, but is then forced to retreat because of a storm.


date: July 9

text: July 9 – Lusignan of Cyprus leads the Cypriots in an unsuccessful attack on Alexandria in Egypt, then retreats, attacks Sidon again on July 19 and then is force by the weather to return to Cyprus, landing back at Famagusta on July 22.


text: July 20 – In the continued conquest of Yuan dynasty China by the Ming dynasty, General Chang Yuchun captures the Yuan capital, Shangdu, forcing the Yuan Emperor Huizong to flee further northward.


date: August 23

text: August 23 – John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, lands with English troops at Calais to begin a raid in France while Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, assembles troops to confront the English invasion. The standoff continues while Lancaster waits for additional troops from the Earl of Warwick.


date: August 24

text: August 24 – Danish–Hanseatic War (1361–1370): After an 18-month siege by the armies of the Hanseatic League and the Kingdom of Sweden, Denmark recaptures Lindholmen Castle and forces a retreat by King Albert of Sweden along with the Hansa and Swedish forces.


date: September 2

text: September 2 – Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, is forced to disband the army that he had assembled to capture Normandy from the control of England, after being ordered by King Charles V of France.


date: September

text: September – Hundred Years' War: The French burn Portsmouth, England; the English raid Picardy and Normandy.


date: December

text: December – Financed by Charles V of France, Welshman Owain Lawgoch launches an invasion fleet against the English, in an attempt to claim the throne of Wales.A storm causes Owain to abandon the invasion.


text: Venice repels a Hungarian invasion.

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text: The Thai Ayutthaya Kingdom conquers Cambodia for a second time.


text: Timur names the city of Samarkand as the capital of his empire.


text: The Ottoman Empire invades Bulgaria.


date: February 19

text: February 19 – Abu Ishaq Ibrahim II, the Muslim Caliph of Tunis, is killed in a shipwreck at the age of 32 and is succeeded by his 12-year-old son Abu-al-Baqa Khalid II.


date: April 15

text: April 15 – Saint Elzéar of Sabran (1285-1323) is canonized by Pope Urban V as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.


date: October 18

text: October 18 – John V Palaiologos, partiarch of Constantinople and leader of the Eastern Orthodox Christian faith, meets in Rome with the Roman Catholic Pope Urban V and agrees to recognize the Pope as the leader of all Christendom, after negotiation between Rome and Constantinople had been made by Demetrios Chrysoloras.


date: June 27

text: June 27 – Thomas de Brantingham succeeds John Barnet as the Lord High Treasurer of England.


text: Charles V of France orders Hugues Aubriot to construct the fortress of the Bastille in Paris.


text: The official production of Jingdezhen porcelain in Ming dynasty China is on record.


date: March 18

text: March 18 – In a period of a few days, more than 800 communities in the Duchy of Aquitaine send requests to King Charles V of France for aid in escaping England's rule.


date: January 17

text: January 17 – Peter the Fat becomes the new King of Cyprus when his father, King Peter I, is stabbed to death while in bed at the Palace of La Cava in Nicosia. The murder is carried out by a group of noblemen, led by Philip of Ibelin, Henry of Jubail, John of Gaurelle, and James of Nores, along with some outlaws freed from imprisonment earlier in the evening.


date: June 3

text: June 3 – At the opening of the English Parliament at Westminster, King Edward III of England proclaims himself to the rightful heir to the throne of France after the Hundred Years' War is resumed by France's King Charles V.


date: June 19

text: June 19 – At Ghent, Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and ruler of a realm that includes much of present-day Netherlands and Belgium, marries Margaret, daughter of Louis II of Flanders.


date: December 25

text: December 25 – Frederick the Simple, King of Sicily, issues an order on Christmas Day directing all Jews on the island to wear a red badge identifying their heritage.


text: The Hongwu Emperor of the Chinese Ming dynasty issues a decree ordering every country magistrate in the empire to open a Confucian school of learning.


date: January

text: January/February – Pope Martin V (d. 1431)


date: May

text: May 28th – Muzio Sforza, Italian condottiero (d. 1424)


text: probable – King Constantine I of Georgia (d. c. 1412)


text: approximate – Margareta, Swedish Sami missionary (d. 1425)


text: approximate – Jan Hus, Czech priest and philosopher (d. 1415)


text: date unknown – William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (d. 1414)


text: January 17 – King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328)


date: March 23

text: March 23 – King Peter of Castile (b. 1334) (murdered after the battle of Montiel)


date: May 25

text: May 25 – Dương Nhật Lễ becomes the new Emperor of Vietnam (Dai Viet) upon the death of the Emperor Trần Dụ Tông.


date: August 15

text: August 15 – Philippa of Hainault, wife of King Edward III, dies after 39 years as Queen consort of England.


text: August 15 – Philippa of Hainault, queen of Edward III of England (b. 1311) (dropsy)


date: September 22

text: September 22 – Ludovico II Gonzaga becomes the new Lord of Mantua upon the death of his father, Guido Gonzaga.


date: October 3

text: October 3 – Margaret, Countess of Tyrol (b. 1318)


date: November 13

text: November 13 – Thomas Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick


text: Ramathibodi I, first king of Ayutthaya (b. 1314)


text: Magnus I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg


text: In Jiaozhi (present-day northern Vietnam) during the Second Era of Northern Domination, a rebellion of the Cham people broke out and lasted for one year, until the peace agreement was made between the Han dynasty governors and the rebels in 138.


text: Tax laws are passed for trade in Palmyra. The caravan city grows rich by importing rare products from the Persian Gulf, and by exporting items manufactured by the Mediterranean world to the East.


text: Didius Julianus, Roman emperor (according to Historia Augusta) (d. 193)


text: Shi Xie, Chinese official, ruler of Jiaozhi (d. 226)


text: Wang Yun, Chinese official, politician (d. 192)


date: May 24

text: May 24 – The Treaty of Stralsund ends the second war between Denmark and the Hanseatic League, an alliance of market towns across northern Europe along the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.


date: June 6

text: June 6 – At Yingchang, now part of the Hexigten province of China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Biligtü Khan Ayushiridara is crowned as Emperor of the Northern Yuan, the remaining portion of the Chinese territory that had been ruled by the Yuan dynasty prior its overthrow in 1368 by the rulers of the Ming dynasty. Prince Ayushiridara is the son of the late Emperor Huizong of Yuan.


date: November 15

text: November 15 – Trần Nghệ Tông deposes Dương Nhật Lễ as emperor of Đại Việt, modern-day Vietnam.


date: February 18

text: February 18 – The Battle of Rudau is fought between the Teutonic Knights and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania near Rudau village, north of Königsberg (now Melnikovo village in the Kaliningrad oblast). According to the Teutonic chronicler Wigand of Marburg and the Livonian chronicle of Hermann de Wartberge, the Lithuanians suffer a great defeat.


date: April 9

text: April 9 – Timur becomes first Amir of the Timurid Empire, following the Siege of Balkh which establishes his rule over the Chagatai Khanate, completing his conquest of Central Asia and parts of Persia.


date: August 16

text: August 16 – (24th day of 7th month, Shōhei 25) The Japanese era Kentoku begins to reflect the reign of the southern Emperor Chōkei


date: September 19

text: September 19 – The Siege of Limoges takes place in the course of the Hundred Years' War as the English Army, led by Edward the Black Prince, retakes the of Limoges from the French by storm with wide destruction, effectively ending the Limoges enamel industry.


date: November 26

text: November 26 – Lithuanian–Muscovite War: In retaliation for the attack by the Grand Principality of Moscow on Tver and Bryansk, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Principality of Tver begin a two-day siege of the Muscovite city of Volokolamsk. While the leader of Volokolamsk's defenses, Prince Vasily Ivanovich Berezuysky, is killed, the attackers end the siege without capturing the city, and then march toward Moscow.


date: December 4

text: December 4 – In the Battle of Pontvallain, fought in the Hundred Years' War, a French army under Bertrand du Guesclin heavily defeats an English force in surprise attacks in northwest France.


date: December 6

text: December 6 – Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, leads a siege of Moscow itself, the capital of the Grand Principality, and his forces burn and pillage the city as Moscow's Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy retreats to the safety of the Kremlin. Donskoy's allies, his cousin Vladimir the Bold of Serpukhov and Prince Vladimir Dmitrievich Yaroslavich of Pronsk, come to Moscow's aid.


date: December 14

text: December 14 – Moscow and Lithuania reach a truce to end the Lithuanian siege and Grand Duke Algirdas and his Lithuanian forces withdraw.


text: Khun Luang Pa-Ngua, ruler of Suphanburi, marches and usurps the throne of the Ayutthaya Kingdom.


date: January 2

text: January 2 – In France, the war over the autonomous state of Provence, launched by King Charles V's brother, the Duke of Anjou, against the ruling countess, Queen Joanna I of Naples, is halted by a truce forced by the invention of Pope Urban V and King Charles.


date: January 9

text: January 9 – The funeral of the late Queen Philippa, who had served as Queen consort of England for 61 years as the wife of King Edward III, is held at Westminster Abbey.


date: March 27

text: March 27 – Antonio Ballester of Catalonia is appointed as the Latin Archbishop of Athens by Pope Urban VI.


date: December 30

text: December 30 – Cardinal Pierre de Beaufort, nephew of the late Pope Clement VI, is unanimously elected as the new Pope by 18 of the 20 Roman Catholic cardinals at Avignon. Beaufort takes the name Pope Gregory XI and is crowned six days later.


text: The steel crossbow is first used as a weapon of war.


text: Hugues Aubriot begins construction of the fortress of the Bastille in Paris.


text: The city of Xi'an in Ming dynasty China is given a new defensive city wall.


date: October 20

text: October 20 – Philip of Anjou, Titular Emperor of Constantinople, marries his second wife Elizabeth of Slavonia (daughter of Stephen of Anjou and Margaret of Bavaria).


date: April 11

text: April 11 – Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1428)


date: July 23

text: July 23 – Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder, Italian humanist (d. 1444 or 1445)


text: Joan of Navarre, Queen of England, Duchess regent of Brittany (d. 1437)


text: Guarino da Verona, Italian humanist (d. 1460)


text: Jan Piast, Duke of Ziebice (d. 1428)


text: Duke William of Austria (d. 1406)


text: Paulus Vladimiri, Polish scholar (d. 1435)


text: King Olav IV of Norway (d. 1387)


text: Jan Sindel, Polish scientist (d. 1443)


text: Erasmo of Narni, Italian mercenary (d. 1443)


text: John Lydgate, English Benedictine monk and poet (d. 1451)


text: John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1408)


date: January 6

text: January 6 – 11 (Tubah 1086 AM) Pope Gabriel IV is consecrated as the new leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church for the Coptic Christians of Egypt, and assumes the title of Bishop of Alexandria, succeeding the late Pope Yoannis X, who had died eight months earlier.


date: March 20

text: March 20 – King David II of Scotland divorces his wife and queen consort of six years, Margaret Drummond. Queen Margaret then travels to Avignon and persuades Pope Urban V to rescind the divorce before King David dies the next year.


date: May 23

text: May 23 – Emperor Huizong, who was the last Chinese ruler of the Yuan dynasty (from 1333 to 1368) and ruler of a portion of Inner Mongolia after his defeat in 1368, dies at the age of 49.


date: May 31

text: May 31 – St. Vitalis of Assisi, Italian hermit (b. 1295)


date: July 16

text: July 16 – An agreement is signed between Spain's King Pedro IV of Aragon and King Charles V of France for the marriage of Juan, Duke of Girona, heir to King Pedro, and Princess Jeanne de Valois, the aunt of King Charles. However, before the marriage can take place, Jeanne dies in 1371 while traveling to meet Prince Juan.


date: September 9

text: September 9 – King Casimir III of Poland sustains a complicated fracture of his left leg when he is thrown from a horse while deer hunting outside the village of Zeleznica.' When he ignores medical advice, his injury becomes infected and he dies of sepsis less than two months later.


date: November 5

text: November 5 – Casimir III the Great, King of Poland (b. 1310)


text: November 5 – Casimir III the Great, king of Poland, dies two months after being injured in an accident while hunting, and is succeeded jointly by his sister, Elizabeth of Kujavia, and her son, Louis I of Hungary, beginning the rule of the country by the Capet-Anjou family.


date: December 19

text: December 19 – Pope Urban V (b. 1310)


date: December 20

text: December 20 – The 200th Roman Catholic pontiff, Pope Urban V, dies in Avignon after eight years, the first five of which were in Rome.


text: c. September 20 – Edward of Angoulême, French-born royal prince of England (b. 1365)


text: Simeon Uroš, Emperor of Serbs and Greeks and half-brother of Stefan Dušan (b. 1326)


text: Vedanta Desika, Indian Hindu guru and poet (b. 1269)


text: probable date – Empress Gi of Yuan dynasty China (b. 1315)


date: January 8

text: January 8 – King Edward II summons the members of the House of Lords and House of Commons to assemble at Westminster for a one-month session of the English Parliament.


date: February 24

text: February 24 – The English Parliament opens its session at Westminster.


date: March 29

text: March 29 – The English Parliament closes and King Edward II gives royal assent to laws passed during its session, including the confirmation of the Great Charter of the Forest, as well as defining "the penalty of him that setteth up or enhanceth wares" and a ban against enforcement, without consent, of the law of sylva caedua, a tithe to the church of a portion of any timber of 20 years growth.


date: April 9

text: April 9 – Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan succeeds Emperor Go-Kōgon of the Northern Court of Japan.


date: May 17

text: May 17 – The Lordship of Milan expands its holdings when Feltrino Gonzaga sells almost all of his holdings of Reggio di Lombardia to the Lords Galeazzo and Bernabo Visconti, with the exception of Novellara and Bagnolo.


date: November 18

text: November 18 – Shen-Chi and Chang-Jhing-Chi, diplomatic envoys from China, land in Java to deliver a message from the Chinese Emperor to Muhammad Shah of Brunei.


date: February 1

text: February 1 – War of the Lüneburg Succession: In what is now the state of Lower Saxony in north Germany, after the Duke of Brunswick, Magnus Torquatus, attempts to claim his inheritance to rule of the Principality of Lüneburg, residents of the town of Lüneburg destroy the ducal castle that had been owned by the late Prince Wilhelm, and Brunswick relocates his residence to the town of Celle.


date: May

text: May – Under the direction of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Emperor Hongwu, the Ming conquest of Xia begins as troops from China, led by Generals Fu Youde and Tang He invade what is now the Sichuan province from the north, while Admiral Liao Yongzhong leads an attack on Xia's east coast and along the Yangtze river.


date: July 21

text: July 21 – John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, resigns his command from the English Army and abandons the attempt to recapture the Duchy of Aquitaine, but remains in France.


date: August 22

text: August 22 – Brabant is unexpectedly defeated by the Duchy of Jülich at the Battle of Baesweiler.


date: September 26

text: September 26 – In the Battle of Maritsa, troops led by Lala Shahin Pasha and Hacı İlbey from the Ottoman Empire overwhelm and kill most of the Serbian defenders, including King Vukašin, his brother Prince Jovan Uglješa, and most of the lords of the Mrnjavčević family. The victory paves the way for the Ottoman Empire to expand into the Balkan Peninsula.


date: October 21

text: October 21 – An attempt on Saint Ursula's Day by the Duke of Brunswick, to defeat the uprising in the principality of Luneberg and to reclaim his title, is unsuccessful.


text: Byzantine co-emperor John V Palaiologos pledges loyalty to the Ottoman Empire, to prevent the Turks from invading Constantinople.


text: Kalamegha claims the vacant title of King of Cambodia after the power of the Thai invaders from Ayutthaya begins to weaken. The Ayutthayans are finally expelled in 1375.


date: January 5

text: January 5 – Six days after his election to lead the Roman Catholic Church, Pierre Roger de Beaufort is crowned as Pope Gregory XI. The coronation is performed by the protodeacon Rinaldo Orsini at the Avignon Cathedral.


date: March 26

text: March 26 – The coronation of Robert II as King of Scotland takes place at Scone Abbey.


date: March 28

text: March 28 – The London Charterhouse, a Carthusian monastery, is founded in Aldersgate.


date: May 30

text: May 30 – Pope Gregory XI names 12 new Roman Catholic cardinals to supplement the existing 20 living cardinals. The new cardinals at Avignon include Robert de Geneve who will become the first antipope of the Western Schism.


text: Polish priest Andrzej Jastrzębiec becomes the first bishop of Siret, thus bringing Catholicism to Moldavia.


text: The Hongwu Emperor of the Ming dynasty in China introduces the census registration system of lijia, or the hundreds-and-tithing system, throughout the Yangzi Valley. This system groups households into units of ten and groups of one hundred, whereupon their capacities for paying taxes and providing the state with corvée labor service can be assessed. The system becomes fully operational in 1381, when it counts 59,873,305 people living in China (the historian Timothy Brook asserts that the number was much higher, somewhere between 65 million and 75 million).


text: The first widely accepted historical reference is made to playing cards (in Spain).


date: January

text: January – Edward the Black Prince, gives up the administration of Aquitaine and returns to England, because of his poor health and heavy debts.


date: June 24

text: June 24 – In punishment for his malfeasance as regent during the reign of King David II, the property of William III, Earl of Ross at Inverness is confiscated by King Robert II.


date: September 21

text: September 21 – John of Gaunt, son of King Edward III of England, marries Constance of Castile, daughter of King Pedro of Castile, giving John a claim to the throne of Castile.


date: November 26

text: November 26 – In the Kingdom of Goryeo (now sections of North Korea and South Korea), King Gongmin names his Shin-Bi as his royal consort and primary wife.


date: May 28

text: May 28 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1419)


text: September 21 – Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1440)


date: December 30

text: December 30 – Prince Vasily I of Moscow (d. 1425)


text: probable – Isabeau de Bavière, queen of Charles VI of France (d. 1435)


text: Leopold IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1411)


text: Zheng He, Chinese mariner and explorer (d. 1433)


text: Sophia of Lithuania, regent of Lithuania (d. 1453)


text: January/February – Paul, Latin Patriarch of Constantinople


date: February 17

text: February 17 – Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria


text: February 17 – Rival brothers Ivan Sratsimir and Ivan Shishman become co-Emperors of Bulgaria after the death of their father, Ivan Alexander. Bulgaria is weakened by the split.


date: February 22

text: February 22 – David II of Scotland (b. 1324)


text: February 22 – Robert II becomes the first Stuart king of Scotland, after the death of his uncle, King David II, prompting a rebellion by the Earl of Douglas.


date: March 4

text: March 4 – Jeanne d'Évreux, queen consort of France (b. 1310)


text: September 26 – Jovan Uglješa, Serbian despot


text: September 26 – Vukašin Mrnjavčević, Serbian king


date: September

text: September – Thomas de Vere, 8th Earl of Oxford (b. c. 1336)


date: December 4

text: December 4 – Stefan Uroš V, the Tsar of Serbia and King of the Greeks since 1346, dies childless at the age of 35. Marko Mrnjavčević, the young son of the late co-ruler of Serbia, King Vukasin, is designated as the nominal Emperor, although Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović controls most of the remaining territory of the Serbian Empire.


text: Zhao Bing Fa becomes King of Mong Mao (in modern-day south China/north Myanmar) after the death of his father, Si Kefa.


date: February 21

text: February 21 – Jean, County of Montfort, Duke of Brittany makes a secret agreement with the Kingdom of England to allow English troops to pass through the lands he owns during the English war with France, event though he had previously allied with King Charles V of France in the same war.


date: July 10

text: July 10 – The Treaty of Tagilde is signed between Ferdinand I of Portugal and representatives of John of Gaunt of England, marking the beginning of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, which remains in effect into the 21st century.


date: August 20

text: August 20 – Peace is declared between the Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples with the signing of the Treaty of Villeneuve between Joanna of Anjou (ruler of Naples) and King Frederick IV of Aragon (ruler of Sicily).


date: September 15

text: September 15 – Jayasthiti Malla becomes the new King of Nepal when he overthrows King Jayarjunadeva, who had ruled since 1360.


date: November 9

text: November 9 – Trần Duệ Tông succeeds his brother Trần Nghệ Tông as King of Vietnam.


date: December 2

text: December 2 – Ruprecht and his brothers Waclaw, Boleslaw and Henryk sign an agreement that they will not divide the Duchy of Legnica (in Poland) for at least 10 years, having jointly inherited from their father, Waclaw the First.


text: The Kingdom of Chūzan, ruled by King Satto on the island of Okinawa, in Japan) enters tributary relations with Ming dynasty China by way of an envoy, Yang Zai, sent by the Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.


date: June 22

text: June 22 – The Kingdom of France and the Crown of Castile defeat the Kingdom of England in the Battle of La Rochelle, and France gains control of the English Channel for the first time since 1340.


date: October 24

text: October 24 – (22 Rabi’ al-Thani 774 AH) ; Four-year-old Muhammad III ibn Abd al-Aziz succeeds his father, Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz I, as Marinid Sultan of Morocco.


text: Encounter of Sintra: Twenty Portuguese knights rout four hundred Castilian infantrymen of the country.


date: March 12

text: March 12 – Saint Bridget sets out on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, staying in Cyprus until May 12. In August, she is in Bethlehem where she sees a vision of Jesus' birth. In September, she sets sail for Naples, where she arrives in December.


date: April 13

text: April 13 – Saint Bridget and her fellow pilgrims arrive at Famagusta in Cyprus, after their ship has survived a five-day storm that they had encountered after departing from Asia Minor.


date: January 17

text: January 17 – Frederick the Simple, King of Sicily, agrees to marry Antonia of Baux, as part of negotiations for a peace treaty between Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples and Neapolitan and Papal recognition of his right to the throne. The marriage will take place the next year on November 26, 1373.


date: March 8

text: March 8 – In the Holy Roman Empire, the Archbishop-Elector of Trier, Kuno II von Falkenstein and the Archbishop-Elector of Köln, Friedrich III. von Saarwerden, become co-founders of their own mint abd begin production of being the minting of coins, including the "Weisspfennig" (the "white penny").


date: March 14

text: March 14 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a deed in Wrocław, acknowledging the sovereignty of King Louis I of Hungary as ruler of Hungary, Croatia and Poland.


date: May 13

text: May 13 – St. Bridget and her fellow pilgrims finally arrive at Jerusalem on Ascension Day after a two-month journey.


text: Newaya Maryam succeeds his father, Newaya Krestos, as ruler of Ethiopia.


text: The city of Aachen, Germany, begins adding a Roman numeral Anno Domini date to a few of its coins, the first city in the world to do so.


date: January 29

text: January 29 – John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and the third son of England's King Edward III, begins a claim to the throne of Spain's Crown of Castile after his September 21 marriage to Princess Constance of Castile. King Pedro of Castile, who was killed by his brother, who took control as King Enrique II, in 1369.


date: April 8

text: April 8 – King Robert II of Scotland issues a Royal Charter granting royal burgh status to the town of Irvine, North Ayrshire, a status that lasts for 603 years until royal burghs are abolished in 1975.


date: February 18

text: February 18 – Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Islamic scholar (d. 1449)


date: March 13

text: March 13 – Louis I, Duke of Orléans, son of King Charles V of France (d. 1407)


date: September 8

text: September 8 – Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey (d. 1400)


date: October

text: October – John Hastings, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (d. 1389)


text: Helena Dragaš, empress consort of Byzantium (d. 1450)


text: Olivera, daughter of Lazar of Serbia and wife of Bayezid I


date: January 6

text: January 6 – The coronation of Peter the Fat as King Peter II of Cyprus takes place in Nicosia at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Sophia (now the Selimiye Mosque). Peter had become the ruler of Cyprus at age 14 upon the death of his father, King Peter I.


date: January 11

text: January 11 – Eleanor of Lancaster, English noblewoman (b. 1318)


date: March 19

text: March 19 – John II, Marquess of Montferrat (b. 1321)


date: March 21

text: March 21 – Rudolf VI, Margrave of Baden


date: August 24

text: August 24 – Casimir III, Duke of Pomerania (b. 1348)


date: August 31

text: August 31 – Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (b. 1301)


text: date unknown – Bagrat I of Imereti, King of Georgia


text: date unknown – Newaya Krestos, Emperor of Ethiopia


date: March 24

text: 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.


date: March 31

text: March 31 – The Treaty of Villeneuve, signed on August 20, 1372 to settle the dispute between the Capetian House of Anjou and the House of Barcelona over rule of the Kingdom of Sicily, is ratified by Queen Giovanna of Naples (for Anjou), acknowledging the loss of Sicily to King Frederick the Simple of Sicily of the House of Barcelona.


date: May 17

text: May 17 – The dukes of the various duchies of Pomerania, enter into an alliance in a meeting at Kaseburg (now Karsibor in Poland) to resist the expansion of the neighboring state of Brandenburg.


date: June 16

text: June 16 – The Anglo-Portuguese Treaty is signed in London, and is the oldest active treaty in the world.


date: August 18

text: August 18 – The Treaty of Fürstenwalde is concluded between the Holy Roman Empire and the Margravate of Brandenburg, as the Margrave Otto V abdicates the throne and sells Brandenburg to the Holy Roman Emperor in return for several castles and towns in the Upper Palatinate 500,000 imperial guilders (1,900 kg or almost 68,000 ounces of gold) as Margrave of Brandenburg


date: September 25

text: September 25 – At Constantinople, Manuel II Palaiologos is proclaimed as co-Emperor of Byzantium by his father, the Emperor John V Palaiologos.


date: November 21

text: November 21 – King Edward III opens the English Parliament at Westminster and demands more money to be raised to continue the war with France.


date: December 21

text: December 21 – The Parliament of England ends its session after 20 days and royal assent is given to measures passed therein, including an act setting "the length and breadth of cloth of ray, and cloth of colour", and setting the exchange rate for a Scottish groat as three English pence.


text: Louis I of Hungary takes Severin again, but the Vlachs will recover it in 1376–1377.


text: 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.


date: January 13

text: January 13 – King Charles VI of France issues an ordinance to reform the kingdom's defense forces, with a goal of improving efficiency and discipline. For the first time, captains of regiments of soldiers are required to pay their men directly and report the accounting to their superiors, who are required to audit the reports. Previously, the captains pocketed the wages and allowed their men "to pay themselves by pillage."


date: February 16

text: February 16 – King Edward III of England appoints Lord Salisbury to command a fleet of English and Genoese galleys and 1,700 soldiers to fight in the Duchy of Brittany.


date: March 7

text: March 7 – Second Ferdinand War: The Battle of Lisbon is fought off the coast of the capital of the Kingdom of Portugal. The attack by the Crown of Castile, by 12 galleys led by Ambrosio Boccanegra, disperses the 21 ships of the defending Portuguese navy


text: March 21 – The Battle of Chiset is fought between France and England near what is now Chizé in Deux-Sèvres département in France. The French force of 1,500 defenders, led by Bertrand du Guesclin overwhelms 700-man English force led by Baron Devereux, who is taken prisoner of war.


date: April 28

text: April 28 – Hundred Years' War: The French re-capture most of Brittany from the English, but are unable to take Brest, and John IV, Duke of Brittany, is forced into exile.


date: May 6

text: May 6 – Byzantine co-emperor Andronikos IV Palaiologos allies with Savcı Bey, the son of the Ottoman Sultan Murad I, rebels against his father, John V Palaiologos, for agreeing to let Constantinople become a vassal of the Ottoman Empire, but the rebellion fails.


date: May 7

text: May 7 – The troops of the Papal States and of the county of Savoy and the French mercenary Enguerrand VII de Coucy, defeat the Visconti, rulers of the Lordship of Milan in the Battle of Montichiari and stop Milan's attempts to expand its empire within Italy.


date: May 30

text: May 30 – Andronikos IV is arrested, imprisoned, and blinded in one eye on orders of his father, the Emperor John V Palaiologos, who was directed by Sultan Murad to carry out the punishment.Savci, who was completely blinded, is executed on orders of Murad, his father. After the rebellion fails, Ottoman Emperor Murad I commands to blind his son.


date: July 1

text: July 1 – Marquard of Randeck, Prince-Bishop of Augsburg, who had joined an alliance in a war against the Republic of Venice, is defeated in the Battle of Fossa Nuova, near Treviso, after the Doge of Venice, Andrea Contarini, hired Turkish mercenaries. Randeck is forced to negotiate surrender terms and sign a peace treaty.


date: August 4

text: August 4 – Hundred Years' War: John of Gaunt launches a new invasion of France, setting out with 15,000 men from Calais and marching through Picardy, Champagne and Burgundy, "burning and destroying as he advanced


date: September 9

text: September 9 – Władysław the White (Władysław Biały), formerly the Duke of Gniewkowo begins a rebellion against the Kingdom of Poland in an attempt to become the kingdom's monarch rather than the King of Hungary. He begins an attempt to reestablish his duchy, capturing Gniewkowo, Włocławek, Inowrocław and Złotoria, but ultimately fails after he flees to Zlotoria in 1376 and is besieged there, surrendering in 1377.


date: November 25

text: November 25 – Philip II, Prince of Taranto hands over the rule of Achaea (modern-day southern Greece) to his cousin, Joanna I of Naples.


text: A city wall is built around Lisbon, Portugal to resist invasion by Castile.


text: Constantine IV, ruler of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (modern-day southern Turkey), is assassinated; he is succeeded by his distant cousin Leo V.


date: June 12

text: June 12 – John of Gaunt's chevauchée of 1373: King Edward III appoints John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster as his captain-general in the war in France and sends him with a large army across the English Channel to Calais.


date: January 15

text: January 15 – Majorie Castle in Switzerland becomes the official residence of the Roman Catholic Prince-bishop of Sion, Guichard Tavelli, and the bishops that follow.


date: May 13

text: May 13 – The English anchoress, Dame Julian of Norwich receives the 16 Revelations of Divine Love from God while seriously ill.


date: September 12

text: September 12 – , The German prince-bishop Marquard of Randeck signs a peace treaty with the Republic of Venice, forfeiting all territory recaptured during the war, with the exception of Feltre and Belluno.


text: The Adina Mosque is built in Bengal.


date: August 8

text: August 8 – Bristol perambulation: Bristol is made a county corporate, the first town in he Kingdom of England outside London to be granted this status.


date: October 2

text: October 2 – Wenzel of Luxembourg, son of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, is installed by the Empire as the new Margrave of Brandenburg, ending the war with Pomerania and entering into an alliance with the Pomeranian dukes.Buchholz (1999), p.161


text: Merton College Library is built in Oxford, England.


date: March 29

text: March 29 – Marie d'Alençon, French princess (d. 1417)