1370s

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1340s 1350s 1360s – 1370s – 1380s 1390s 1400s
Years:	1370 1371 1372 1373 1374 1375 1376 1377 1378 1379
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

The 1370s decade ran from January 1, 1370, to December 31, 1379.

Events and trends

1370: Timur, after completing his conquest of Central Asia and part of Persia, established the Timurid Empire.
1370: The Treaty of Stralsund ended the war between Denmark and the Hanseatic League.
1370: First known use of the steel crossbow as a weapon of war.
1371: First generally accepted reference to playing cards (in the Iberian peninsula).
1371: End of the Bruce dynasty in Scotland after the sudden death of David II, age 46.
1372: France regained control of the English Channel for the first time since 1340 after the Battle of La Rochelle.
1372: Declaration of peace between the Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples.
1373: Foundation of the city of Phnom Penh in Cambodia, today's capital.
1373: Anglo-Portuguese alliance, currently the world's oldest active treaty, was signed.
1374: Construction of the Château de Compiègne in France.
1374: Musa II succeeded as Mansa of the Mali Empire, now Mali & Senegal.
1375: Completion of John Barbour's vernacular account of Scotland's Wars of Independence for the Stewart king Robert II.
1375: Death of the vernacular writer Giovanni Boccaccio in Certaldo, Tuscany, age 62.
1376: Catherine of Siena visited Pope Gregory XI in Avignon and persuaded him to return the Papacy to Rome.
1377: Death of king Edward III of England, age 50.
1377: Gregory XI issued a series bulls to condemn John Wycliffe's opinion that Catholic priests should live in poverty like the twelve disciples of Jesus.
1378: Disenfranchised labourers achieved executive control of Florence under Michele di Lando for six weeks.
1378: Owain Lawgoch was assassinated in France by a Scot in the pay of the English, ending his efforts to reclaim the throne of Wales from England.
1378: Cardinals in scunner at the newly elected Pope Urban VI elected Clement VII as antipope, returned to Avignon, established a rival papal court to Rome and thus initiated what became the Western Schism.
1379: Foundation of New College, Oxford.

Mamai, leader of Golden Horde broke from Khans and attempted to establish his own independent state in Russia creating chaos.
The Krashovani, fleeing the Ottoman offensive in Serbia, settled in the Banat.