1369

Year 1369 (MCCCLXIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1340s 1350s 1360s 1370s 1380s
Years:	1366 1367 1368 1369 1370 1371 1372

1369 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1369 MCCCLXIX
Ab urbe condita	2122
Armenian calendar	818 ԹՎ ՊԺԸ
Assyrian calendar	6119
Balinese saka calendar	1290–1291
Bengali calendar	776
Berber calendar	2319
English Regnal year	42 Edw. 3 – 43 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1913
Burmese calendar	731
Byzantine calendar	6877–6878
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4065 or 4005     — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 4066 or 4006
Coptic calendar	1085–1086
Discordian calendar	2535
Ethiopian calendar	1361–1362
Hebrew calendar	5129–5130
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1425–1426
- Shaka Samvat	1290–1291
- Kali Yuga	4469–4470
Holocene calendar	11369
Igbo calendar	369–370
Iranian calendar	747–748
Islamic calendar	770–771
Japanese calendar	Ōan 2 (応安２年)
Javanese calendar	1282–1283
Julian calendar	1369 MCCCLXIX
Korean calendar	3702
Minguo calendar	543 before ROC 民前543年
Nanakshahi calendar	−99
Thai solar calendar	1911–1912
Tibetan calendar	阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1495 or 1114 or 342     — to — 阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 1496 or 1115 or 343

Events

January–December

• February – Vladislav I of Wallachia liberates Vidin from the Hungarians, resulting in the restoration of Ivan Sratsimir on the throne of Bulgaria, in the autumn.
• March 14 – Battle of Montiel: Pedro of Castile loses to an alliance between the French and his half-brother, Henry II.
• May – King Charles V of France renounces the Treaty of Brétigny, and war is declared between France and England. The French recapture most of Aquitaine.
• December – Financed by Charles V of France, Welshman Owain Lawgoch launches an invasion fleet against the English, in an attempt to claim the throne of Wales. A storm causes Owain to abandon the invasion.

Dates unknown

• Venice repels a Hungarian invasion.
• Hugues Aubriot founds the Bastille in Paris.
• Tamerlane names the city of Samarkand as the capital of his empire.
• Košice becomes the first town in Europe to be granted its own coat of arms.
• The Turks invade Bulgaria.
• The Thai Kingdom of Ayutthaya conquers Cambodia for a second time.
• Duong Nhat Le succeeds Tran Hao as King of Vietnam.
• The Hongwu Emperor of the Chinese Ming Dynasty issues a decree, ordering every country magistrate in the empire to open a Confucian school of learning.
• The official production of Jingdezhen porcelain in Ming dynasty China is on record.

Births

• May 28th – Muzio Sforza, Italian condottiero (d. 1424)
• date unknown – William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (d. 1414)
• probable – King Constantine I of Georgia (d. c. 1412)
• approximate – John Huss, Czech priest and philosopher (d. 1415)
• approximate – Margareta, Swedish Sami missionary (d. 1425)

Deaths

• January 17 – King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328)
• March 23 – King Peter of Castile (b. 1334) (murdered after the battle of Montiel)
• August 15 – Philippa of Hainault, queen of Edward III of England (b. 1311) (dropsy)
• October 3 – Margaret, Countess of Tyrol (b. 1318)
• November 13 – Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick
• date unknown
  • Sir John Chandos, English knight
  • Agnes Dunbar, Countess of Moray
  • Magnus the Pious, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
  • Ramathibodi I, first king of Ayutthaya (b. 1314)

References