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| 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) 4073 or 3866 — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 4074 or 3867 |
| Coptic calendar | 1092–1093 |
| Discordian calendar | 2542 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1368–1369 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5136–5137 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1432–1433 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1297–1298 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4476–4477 |
| Holocene calendar | 11376 |
| Igbo calendar | 376–377 |
| Iranian calendar | 754–755 |
| Islamic calendar | 777–778 |
| Japanese calendar | Eiwa 2 (永和２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1289–1290 |
| Julian calendar | 1376 MCCCLXXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3709 |
| Minguo calendar | 536 before ROC 民前536年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −92 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1918–1919 |
| Tibetan calendar | 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 |
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, 1377.
- March 31 – Pope Gregory XI excommunicates all members of the government of Florence, and places the city under an interdict.
- April 28 – The Good Parliament begins in England (so called because its members attempted to reform the corrupt Royal Council on that date).
- 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.
Dates Unknown
- Acamapichtli becomes the first tlatoani of Tenochtitlan.
Births
- November 9 – Edmund Mortimer, English nobleman and rebel (d. c. 1409)
- date unknown
- Gihwa, scholar in Korean Buddhism (d. 1433)
- Sofia of Bavaria, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1425)
- Yusuf III, Sultan of Granada (d. 1417)
Deaths
- January 24 – Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader
- April 6 – Przecław of Pogorzela, Cardinal and Bishop of Wrocław (b. 1310)
- May 30 – Joan of Ponthieu, Dame of Epernon, French countess regent
- June 8 – Edward, the Black Prince, son of King Edward III of England (b. 1330)[1]
- July 22 – Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1310)
- September 30 – Adelaide of Vianden, German countess[2][3]
References
- ^ "Edward, the Black Prince (1330 - 1376)". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ^ Dek, A.W.E. (1970). Genealogie van het Vorstenhuis Nassau (in Dutch). Zaltbommel: Europese Bibliotheek. p. 66.
- ^ De Roo van Alderwerelt, J.K.H. (1960). "De graven van Vianden. Bijdrage tot een genealogie van het geslacht der graven van Vianden tot de vererving van het graafschap in het Nassause huis". De Nederlandsche Leeuw, Maandblad van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde (in Dutch). 1960 (6): 196.