1373
This article is about the year 1373. For the number, see 1373 (number). For other uses, see 1373 (disambiguation).
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1340s 1350s 1360s – 1370s – 1380s 1390s 1400s |
| Years: | 1370 1371 1372 – 1373 – 1374 1375 1376 |
| 1373 by topic | |
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| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
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| 1373 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1373 MCCCLXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2126 |
| Armenian calendar | 822 ԹՎ ՊԻԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6123 |
| Bengali calendar | 780 |
| Berber calendar | 2323 |
| English Regnal year | 46 Edw. 3 – 47 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1917 |
| Burmese calendar | 735 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6881–6882 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4069 or 4009 — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4070 or 4010 |
| Coptic calendar | 1089–1090 |
| Discordian calendar | 2539 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1365–1366 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5133–5134 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1429–1430 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1295–1296 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4474–4475 |
| Holocene calendar | 11373 |
| Igbo calendar | 373–374 |
| Iranian calendar | 751–752 |
| Islamic calendar | 774–775 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōan 6 (応安６年) |
| Julian calendar | 1373 MCCCLXXIII |
| Korean calendar | 3706 |
| Minguo calendar | 539 before ROC 民前539年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1915–1916 |
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Year 1373 (MCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- March 24 – The Treaty of Santarém is signed between D. Fernando of Portugal and Henrique II of Castile, ending the second war between the two countries.
- May 13 – Julian of Norwich receives the sixteen Revelations of Divine Love.
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