1376

This article is about the year 1376.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1340s  1350s  1360s  – 1370s –  1380s  1390s  1400s
Years:	1373 1374 1375 – 1376 – 1377 1378 1379

1376 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1376 in poetry

1376 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1376 MCCCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2129
Armenian calendar	825 ԹՎ ՊԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	6126
Bengali calendar	783
Berber calendar	2326
English Regnal year	49 Edw. 3 – 50 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1920
Burmese calendar	738
Byzantine calendar	6884–6885
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 4072 or 4012     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 4073 or 4013
Coptic calendar	1092–1093
Discordian calendar	2542
Ethiopian calendar	1368–1369
Hebrew calendar	5136–5137
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1432–1433
- Shaka Samvat	1298–1299
- Kali Yuga	4477–4478
Holocene calendar	11376
Igbo calendar	376–377
Iranian calendar	754–755
Islamic calendar	777–778
Japanese calendar	Eiwa 2 (永和２年)
Julian calendar	1376 MCCCLXXVI
Korean calendar	3709
Minguo calendar	536 before ROC 民前536年
Thai solar calendar	1918–1919

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

Events

January–December

• March – The peace treaty between England and France is extended until April of 1377.
• March 31 – Pope Gregory XI excommunicates all members of the government of Florence and places the city under an interdict.
• April 28 – The start of Good Parliament in England, so called because its members attempted to reform the corrupt Royal Council.
• May 3 – Olav IV Haakonsson is elected King Oluf II of Denmark, following the death of his grandfather, Valdemar IV, in 1375.
• June – Catherine of Siena visits Pope Gregory XI in Avignon to attempt to persuade him to make peace with Florence and move the Papacy back to Rome.
• June 7 – The dying Prince Edward summons his father Edward III and brother John of Gaunt and makes them swear to uphold the claim to the throne of his son Richard; Edward is the first "English" Prince of Wales not to become King of England.
• July 10 – The Good Parliament is dissolved. At that time, it was the longest Parliament to have sat in England.
• August 12 – With the help of the Genoese, Byzantine co-emperor Andronicus IV Palaeologus invades Constantinople and dethrones his father, John V Palaeologus, as co-emperor. John V Palaeologus is taken prisoner.
• September – John of Gaunt summons religious reformer John Wyclif to appear before the Royal Council.
• November 20 – Richard of Bordeaux, son of the Black Prince, is created Prince of Wales in succession to his father.
• December 25 – John of Gaunt presents his nephew, Richard of Bordeaux, to the feudatories of the realm and swears to uphold Richard's right to succeed Edward III.

Date unknown

• The city of Sredets in Bulgaria is renamed Sofia after the Church of St Sophia
• Khan Qamar al-din of Mongolistan unsuccessfully invades Timur’s eastern province of Farghana.
• Timur leads his army against troops of the White Horde which have arrived at Sighnaq. However, winter sets in, preventing an immediate battle.
• Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow raids Mongol-ruled Volga Bulgaria (now in Russia).
• Acamapichtli is elected Tlatoani of the Aztec empire after the death of Tenoch, the first Aztec ruler.
• Mamluk Sultan of Egypt Nasir-ad-Din Shaban II is succeeded by Alah-ad-Din Ali.
• Qutbuddin succeeds his brother, Shahabuddin, as Sultan of Kashmir.

Births

• November 9 – Edmund Mortimer, son of the 3rd Earl, English rebel (d. c. 1409)
  • Gihwa, scholar in Korean Buddhism (d. 1433)
  • Sofia of Bavaria, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1425)
  • Yusuf III, Sultan of Granada (d. 1417)

Deaths

• January 24 – Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader
• June 8 – Edward, the Black Prince, son of King Edward III of England (b. 1330)
• July 22 – Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1310)
• September 1 – Philip of Valois, Duke of Orléans (b. 1336)