1376

Events

• March – The treaty between England and France is extended until April of 1377.
• April 28 – The Good Parliament in England begins.
• 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.
• July 10 – The Good Parliament, the longest Parliament which has yet sat in England, is dissolved.
• August 12 – Andronicus Palaeologus, son of John V Palaeologus, enters Constantinople and takes his father prisoner.
• September? – John of Gaunt summons John Wycliffe from Oxford to appear before the king’s council, intending to use him against bishops who have become Gaunt’s enemies.
• Fall – John of Gaunt, through the royal council, proceeds to undo the work of the Good Parliament.
• December 25 – John of Gaunt presents his nephew prince Richard of Bordeaux to the feudatories of the realm and swears to uphold his right to succeed Edward III.
• Moghulistan khan Qamar al-din invades Timur’s easter province of Farghana. Tiimur is almost defeated, but manages to turn the tide against his foes and drive them back into their own country.
• Catherine of Siena visits Pope Gregory XI in Avignon, convincing him to move the Papacy back to Rome
• Olaf IV of Norway becomes King of Denmark (as Olaf III of Denmark)
• Sredets, Bulgaria, is renamed Sofia
• Late in year – Timur leads his army against troops of the White Horde which have arrived at Sighnaq. However, winter has set in, precluding the possibility of an immediate battle.

Arts and Literature

• December 25 – Geoffrey Chaucer goes abroad on secret state business in the company of Sir John Burley.

Births

• November 9 – Edmund Mortimer
• Giwha, Scholar in Korean Buddhism

Deaths

• June 8 – Edward the Black Prince (son of King Edward III of England)
• Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Waldemar Atterdag, King of Denmark