1379
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1340s 1350s 1360s – 1370s – 1380s 1390s 1400s |
| Years: | 1376 1377 1378 – 1379 – 1380 1381 1382 |
| 1379 by topic | |
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| 1379 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1379 MCCCLXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2132 |
| Armenian calendar | 828 ԹՎ ՊԻԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6129 |
| Bengali calendar | 786 |
| Berber calendar | 2329 |
| English Regnal year | 2 Ric. 2 – 3 Ric. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1923 |
| Burmese calendar | 741 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6887–6888 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4075 or 4015 — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 4076 or 4016 |
| Coptic calendar | 1095–1096 |
| Discordian calendar | 2545 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1371–1372 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5139–5140 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1435–1436 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1301–1302 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4480–4481 |
| Holocene calendar | 11379 |
| Igbo calendar | 379–380 |
| Iranian calendar | 757–758 |
| Islamic calendar | 780–781 |
| Japanese calendar | Eiwa 5 / Kōryaku 1 (康暦元年) |
| Julian calendar | 1379 MCCCLXXIX |
| Korean calendar | 3712 |
| Minguo calendar | 533 before ROC 民前533年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1921–1922 |
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Year 1379 (MCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- May 29 – John I succeeds his father, Henry II, as King of Castile and King of León.
- September 9 – Treaty of Neuberg signed, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between brothers Albert III and Leopold III. Albert III retains the title of Duke of Austria.
Date unknown
- The Venetians and Ottomans invade Constantinople and restore John V Palaiologos as Byzantine co-emperor. Andronikos IV Palaiologos is allowed to remain as Byzantine co-emperor but is confined to the city of Silivri for the remainder of his life.
- Bairam Khawaja establishes the independent principality of the Turkomans of the Black Sheep Empire in present day Armenia.
- Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow raids Estonia.
- Foundation of New College, Oxford.
- Foundation of Wisbech Grammar School in England.
Births
- October 4 – King Henry III of Castile (d. 1406)
- date unknown – Jerome of Prague, Hussite (d. 1416)
Deaths
- February 18 – Albert II of Mecklenburg (b. c. 1318)
- May 29 – King Henry II of Castile (b. 1334)
- November 15 – Otto V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1346)
- December 16 – John Fitzalan, Marshal of England (drowned)
- date unknown – Aqsara'i, Persian physician