1373

Events

JanuaryDecember

Date unknown

  • Bristol is made an independent county.
  • The Anglo-Portuguese alliance is signed (currently the oldest active treaty in the world).
  • The city of Phnom Penh (now the capital city of Cambodia) is founded.
  • Philip II of Taranto hands over the rule of Achaea (now southern Greece) to his cousin, Joanna I of Naples.
  • Leo VI succeeds his distant cousin, Constantine VI, as King of Armenian Cilicia (now southern Turkey).
  • A city wall is built around Lisbon, Portugal to resist invasion by Castile.
  • Tran Kinh succeeds Tran Phu as King of Vietnam.
  • Byzantine co-emperor Andronikos IV Palaiologos rebels against his father, John V Palaiologos, for agreeing to let Constantinople become a vassal of the Ottoman Empire. After the rebellion fails, Ottoman Emperor Murad I commands John V Palaiologos to blind his son.
  • The death of Sultan Muhammad as-Said begins a period of political instability in Morocco.
  • Merton College Library is built in Oxford, England.
  • The Adina Mosque is built in Bengal.
  • The Chinese emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Hongwu Emperor, suspends the traditional civil service examination system after complaining that the 120 new jinshi degree-holders are too incompetent to hold office; he instead relies solely upon a system of recommendations until the civil service exams are reinstated in 1384.

Births

  • March 29 Marie of Alencon, French princess (d. 1417)
  • June 23 Queen Joan II of Naples (d. 1435)
  • September 22 Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (d. 1400)
  • date unknown
    • Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (d. 1415)
    • Margery Kempe, writer of the first autobiography in English

Deaths

  • January 16 Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (b. 1342)
  • February Ibn Kathir, Islamic scholar (b. 1301)
  • July 23 Saint Birgitta, Swedish saint (b. 1303)
  • November 3 Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (b. 1343)
  • December 7 Rafał z Tarnowa, Polish nobleman (b. c. 1330)
  • date unknown
    • Constantine VI of Armenia (assassinated)
    • Robert le Coq, French bishop and councillor

References

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