1373

Year 1373 (MCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

This article is about the year 1373. For other uses, see 1373 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1350s 1360s 1370s 1380s 1390s
Years:	1370 1371 1372 1373 1374 1375 1376

1373 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1373 MCCCLXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2126
Armenian calendar	822 ԹՎ ՊԻԲ
Assyrian calendar	6123
Balinese saka calendar	1294–1295
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	1294–1295
- Kali Yuga	4473–4474
Holocene calendar	11373
Igbo calendar	373–374
Iranian calendar	751–752
Islamic calendar	774–775
Japanese calendar	Ōan 6 (応安６年)
Javanese calendar	1286–1287
Julian calendar	1373 MCCCLXXIII
Korean calendar	3706
Minguo calendar	539 before ROC 民前539年
Nanakshahi calendar	−95
Thai solar calendar	1915–1916
Tibetan calendar	阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 1499 or 1118 or 346     — to — 阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 1500 or 1119 or 347

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.
• May 13 – Julian of Norwich receives the sixteen Revelations of Divine Love.
• June 16 – The Anglo-Portuguese alliance is signed (currently the oldest active treaty in the world).[1]

Date unknown

• Louis I of Hungary takes Severin again, but the Vlachs will recover it in 1376–1377.
• Bristol in England is made an independent county.
• The city of Phnom Penh (now the capital city of Cambodia) is founded.
• Philip II, Prince of Taranto hands over the rule of Achaea (now southern Greece) to his cousin, Joanna I of Naples.
• Leo V succeeds his distant cousin, Constantine IV, 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 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

References

1. The New Guinness Book of Records 1996, published October 1995 by Guinness Publishing, page 183