1373
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 13th century - 14th century - 15th century |
| Decades: | 1340s 1350s 1360s - 1370s - 1380s 1390s 1400s |
| Years: | 1370 1371 1372 - 1373 - 1374 1375 1376 |
| 1373 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1373 (MCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events of 1373
- 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.
- 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 & Achaea hand over the rule of Achaea (now southern Greece) to his cousin Joan 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.
| Gregorian calendar | 1373 MCCCLXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2126 |
| Armenian calendar | 822 ԹՎ ՊԻԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -471 – -470 |
| Berber calendar | 2323 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1917 |
| Burmese calendar | 735 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6881 – 6882 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬子年十二月初七日 (4009/4069-12-7) — to —
癸丑年閏十一月十七日(4010/4070-intercalary 11-17) |
| Coptic calendar | 1089 – 1090 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1365 – 1366 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5133 – 5134 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1428 – 1429 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1295 – 1296 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4474 – 4475 |
| Holocene calendar | 11373 |
| Iranian calendar | 751 – 752 |
| Islamic calendar | 774 – 775 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3706 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1916 |
- 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.
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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
