1376

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 topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature – Music – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1376 (MCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

March – The peace treaty between England and France is extended until April of 1377.
March 31 – Pope Gregory XI excommunicates all members of the government of Florence and places the city under an interdict.
April 28 – The start of Good Parliament in England, so called because its members attempted to reform the corrupt Royal Council.
May 3 – Olav IV Haakonsson is elected King Oluf II of Denmark, following the death of his grandfather, Valdemar IV, in 1375.
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 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.

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.
The city of Sredets in Bulgaria is renamed Sofia after the Church of St Sophia

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.
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.

April 21 – Michael Ap Andrew Clode II of Wales, Welsh nobleman
November 9 – Edmund Mortimer, English rebel (died c.1409)
- Gihwa, scholar in Korean Buddhism (d. 1433)
- Sofia of Bavaria, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1425)
- Yusuf III, Sultan of Granada (d. 1417)

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)
July 22 – Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1310)
September 1 – Philip of Valois, Duke of Orléans (b. 1336)