1373

Events

January–December

• 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.
• April 28 – Hundred Years' War: The French re-capture most of Brittany from the English, but are unable to take Brest.
• May 13 – English anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich receives the sixteen Revelations of Divine Love.
• June 16 – The Anglo-Portuguese Treaty is signed in London, and is the oldest active treaty in the world.
• August – Hundred Years' War: John of Gaunt launches a new invasion of France.
• November? – Philip II, Prince of Taranto hands over the rule of Achaea (modern-day southern Greece) to his cousin, Joanna I of Naples.

Date unknown

• Louis I of Hungary takes Severin again, but the Vlachs will recover it in 1376–1377.
• 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.
• Constantine IV, ruler of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (modern-day southern Turkey), is assassinated; he is succeeded by his distant cousin Leo V.
• The death of Sultan Muhammad III ibn Abd al-Aziz begins a period of political instability in Morocco.
• The city of Phnom Penh (modern-day capital city of Cambodia) is founded.
• Bristol is made a county corporate, the first town in the Kingdom of England outside London to be granted this status.
• A city wall is built around Lisbon, Portugal to resist invasion by Castile.
• 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 d'Alençon, French princess (d. 1417)
• June 25 – Queen Joanna 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, Mamluk 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 of Tarnów, Polish nobleman (b. c. 1330)
• date unknown
  • Constantine IV, King of Armenia (assassinated)
  • Robert le Coq, French bishop and councillor
  • Tiphaine Raguenel, Breton astrologer (b. c. 1335)

References

References

1. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ferdinand I. of Portugal". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 265.
2. Palmer, Alan. (1992). "The Chronology of British History". Century Ltd.
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4. Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504652-8, pp. 95–96.