1376
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1340s 1350s 1360s – 1370s – 1380s 1390s 1400s |
| Years: | 1373 1374 1375 – 1376 – 1377 1378 1379 |
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| 1376 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1376 MCCCLXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2129 |
| Armenian calendar | 825 ԹՎ ՊԻԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6126 |
| Bengali calendar | 783 |
| Berber calendar | 2326 |
| English Regnal year | 49 Edw. 3 – 50 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1920 |
| Burmese calendar | 738 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6884–6885 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 4072 or 4012 — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 4073 or 4013 |
| Coptic calendar | 1092–1093 |
| Discordian calendar | 2542 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1368–1369 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5136–5137 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1432–1433 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1298–1299 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4477–4478 |
| Holocene calendar | 11376 |
| Igbo calendar | 376–377 |
| Iranian calendar | 754–755 |
| Islamic calendar | 777–778 |
| Japanese calendar | Eiwa 2 (永和２年) |
| Julian calendar | 1376 MCCCLXXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3709 |
| Minguo calendar | 536 before ROC 民前536年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1918–1919 |
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Year 1376 (MCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- 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 – 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.
- 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; Edward is the first "English" Prince of Wales not to become King of England.
- 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.
Date unknown
- 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, son of the 3rd Earl, English rebel (d. 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 (b. 1330)
- July 22 – Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1310)
- September 1 – Philip of Valois, Duke of Orléans (b. 1336)
References
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