1373

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

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.
* 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)

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