1376

1376 (MCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1376th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 376th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 14th century, and the 7th year of the 1370s decade. As of the start of 1376, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1376 MCCCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2129
Armenian calendar	825 ԹՎ ՊԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	6126
Balinese saka calendar	1297–1298
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	1297–1298
- Kali Yuga	4476–4477
Holocene calendar	11376
Igbo calendar	376–377
Iranian calendar	754–755
Islamic calendar	777–778
Japanese calendar	Eiwa 2 (永和２年)
Javanese calendar	1289–1290
Julian calendar	1376 MCCCLXXVI
Korean calendar	3709
Minguo calendar	536 before ROC 民前536年
Nanakshahi calendar	−92
Thai solar calendar	1918–1919
Tibetan calendar	阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 1502 or 1121 or 349     — to — 阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 1503 or 1122 or 350

Events

• March – The peace treaty between England and France is extended until April of 1377.
• April 28 – The start of Good Parliament in England, so called because its members attempted to reform the corrupt Royal Council.
• 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.
• June 8 – Edward, the Black Prince dies, becoming the first English Prince of Wales to not rule as king.
• 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 Wycliffe to appear before the Royal Council to defend Gaunt from bishops who have become his enemies.
• Fall – John of Gaunt, through the Royal Council, proceeds to undo the work of the Good Parliament.
• December 25 – John of Gaunt presents his nephew, Prince Richard of Bordeaux, to the feudatories of the realm and swears to uphold Richard's right to succeed Edward III.
• 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.
• 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.
• Olaf III becomes King of Denmark after the death of his grandfather, Valdemar IV, in 1375.
• The city of Sredets in Bulgaria is renamed Sofia after the Church of St Sophia
• 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.

Arts and Literature

• December 25 – Geoffrey Chaucer goes abroad on secret state business in the company of Sir John Burley.

• 22nd July – Fabled date of the appearance of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

Births

• November 9 – Edmund Mortimer, English rebel (died 1409)
• Gihwa, Scholar in Korean Buddhism

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 (born 1330)
• Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Tenoch, Aztec ruler