1376

Year 1376 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January - June

* March – The peace treaty between England and France is extended until April of 1377.
*March 31 - Pope Gregory XI excommunicates all members of the government of Florence and places the city under an interdict.
* April 28 - The start of Good Parliament in England, so called because its members attempted to reform the corrupt Royal Council.
* May 3 - Olav IV Haakonsson is elected King Oluf II of Denmark, following the death of his grandfather, Valdemar IV, in 1375.
* June 7 – The dying Prince Edward summons his father Edward III and brother John of Gaunt and makes them swear to uphold the claim to the throne of his son Richard.
* June 8 – Edward, the Black Prince dies, becoming the first English Prince of Wales to not rule as king.

July - December

* July 10 – The Good Parliament is dissolved. At that time, it was the longest Parliament to have sat in England.
* August 12 - With the help of the Genoese, Byzantine co-emperor Andronicus IV Palaeologus invades Constantinople and dethrones his father, John V Palaeologus, as co-emperor. John V Palaeologus is taken prisoner.
* September – John of Gaunt summons religious reformer John Wyclif to appear before the Royal Council.
* November 20 - Richard of Bordeaux, son of the Black Prince, is created Prince of Wales in succession to his father.
* December 25 – John of Gaunt presents his nephew, Richard of Bordeaux, to the feudatories of the realm and swears to uphold Richard's right to succeed Edward III.

Undated

* Catherine of Siena visits Pope Gregory XI in Avignon to attempt to persuade him to make peace with Florence and move the Papacy back to Rome.
* The city of Sredets in Bulgaria is renamed Sofia after the Church of St Sophia
* Khan Qamar al-din of Mongolistan unsuccessfully invades Timur’s eastern province of Farghana.
* Timur leads his army against troops of the White Horde which have arrived at Sighnaq. However, winter sets in, preventing an immediate battle.
* Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow raids Mongol ruled Volga Bulgaria (now in Russia).
* Acamapichtli is elected Tlatoani of the Aztec empire after the death of Tenoch, the first Aztec ruler.
* Mamluk Sultan of Egypt Nasir-ad-Din Shaban II is succeeded by Alah-ad-Din Ali.
* Qutbuddin succeeds his brother, Shahabuddin, as Sultan of Kashmir.

Births

* November 9 - Edmund Mortimer, English rebel (died c.1409)
**Gihwa, scholar in Korean Buddhism (d. 1433)
**Sofia of Bavaria, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1425)
**Yusuf III, Sultan of Granada (d. 1417)

Deaths

* January 24 - Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader
* June 8 - Edward, the Black Prince, son of King Edward III of England (born 1330)
*July 22 - Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1310)
*September 1 - Philip of Valois, Duke of Orléans (b. 1336)