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Year '''1378''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCCCLXXVIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Friday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Julian calendar]]. |
Year '''1378''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCCCLXXVIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Friday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Julian calendar]]. |
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== Events == |
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=== January–December === |
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* March – In [[Kingdom of England|England]], [[John Wycliffe]] tries to promote his ideas for Catholic reform by laying his theses before parliament and making them public in a [[Tract (literature)|tract]]. He is subsequently summoned before [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], [[Simon of Sudbury]], at the episcopal palace at [[Lambeth]] to defend his actions. |
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* [[April 9]] – Following the death of [[Pope Gregory XI]] and riots in [[Rome]] calling for a Roman pope, the cardinals, who are mostly French, elect [[Pope Urban VI]] (Bartolomeo Prignano, [[Archbishop of Bari]]) as the 202nd [[Pope]]. |
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* July – [[Ciompi|Revolt of the Ciompi]] – discontent wool carders briefly take over the government of [[Florence]]. |
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* [[August 4]] – [[Gian Galeazzo Visconti]] succeeds his father, [[Galeazzo II Visconti]], as ruler of [[Milan]]. |
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* [[September]] – A contract is set up between [[Richard le Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Bolton]] and the mason Johan Lewyn for the construction of [[Bolton Castle]]. |
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* [[September 20]] – Unhappy with Pope Urban's critical attitude towards them, the majority of the cardinals meet at [[Fondi]] and elect [[Antipope Clement VII|Clement VII]] as [[antipope]] and establish a rival papal court at [[Avignon]]. This split within the Catholic Church becomes known as the [[Western Schism]]. |
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* [[November 10]] – Estimated appearance date of [[Halley's Comet]]. |
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* [[November 29]] – [[Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor]], dies in [[Prague]]. He is succeeded by his son, [[Wenceslaus, King of the Romans|Wenceslaus]] as [[List of rulers of Bohemia|King of Bohemia]] but the office of [[Holy Roman Emperor]] falls into abeyance until Charles's son [[Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor|Sigismund]] is crowned in [[1433]]. |
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* [[Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV]] visits his nephew [[Charles V of France]] to publicly celebrate the friendship between their two nations. |
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* France, [[Aragon]], [[Castile and León]], [[Cyprus]], [[Duchy of Burgundy|Burgundy]], [[Savoy]], [[Naples]] and [[Scotland]] choose to recognise [[Antipope Clement VII]]. [[Denmark]], England, [[Flanders]], the [[Holy Roman Empire]], [[Hungary]], northern [[Italy]], [[Ireland]], [[Norway]], [[Poland]] and [[Sweden]] continue to recognise [[Pope Urban VI]]. |
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* [[Dmitri Donskoi|Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow & Vladimir]] resists a small invasion by the [[Mongol]] [[Blue Horde]]. |
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* [[Tokhtamysh]] dethrones Timur Malik as Khan of the [[White Horde]]. |
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* [[Kara Osman]] establishes the [[Ak Koyunlu|Turkomans of the White Sheep dynasty]] at [[Diyarbakır]] in present-day southeast [[Turkey]]. |
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* The [[Ottoman Empire|Turks]] capture the town of [[Ihtiman]] in west [[Bulgaria]]. |
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* [[Uskhal Khan]] succeeds his father, [[Biligtü Khan]], as ruler of the [[Yuan Dynasty]] in [[Mongolia]]. |
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* [[Balša II]] succeeds his father, [[Đurađ I of Zeta|Durađ I]], as ruler of [[Principality of Zeta|Zeta]] (now [[Montenegro]]). |
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* Tai Bian succeeds Zhao Bing Fa as King of [[Mong Mao]] (now northern [[Myanmar]]). |
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* Da'ud Shah succeeds his assassinated nephew, Aladdin Mujahid Shah, as [[Bahmani Sultanate|Bahmani Sultan]] in present-day southern [[India]]. Da'ud Shah is assassinated in the same year and is succeeded by Mohammed Shah II. |
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* Sa'im al-Dahr is hanged for blowing the nose off [[Great Sphinx of Giza|the Sphinx]]. |
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== Births == |
== Births == |
Revision as of 20:30, 9 May 2017
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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1378 by topic |
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Leaders |
Birth and death categories |
Births – Deaths |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
Establishments – Disestablishments |
Art and literature |
1378 in poetry |
Gregorian calendar | 1378 MCCCLXXVIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2131 |
Armenian calendar | 827 ԹՎ ՊԻԷ |
Assyrian calendar | 6128 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1299–1300 |
Bengali calendar | 785 |
Berber calendar | 2328 |
English Regnal year | 1 Ric. 2 – 2 Ric. 2 |
Buddhist calendar | 1922 |
Burmese calendar | 740 |
Byzantine calendar | 6886–6887 |
Chinese calendar | 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 4075 or 3868 — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4076 or 3869 |
Coptic calendar | 1094–1095 |
Discordian calendar | 2544 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1370–1371 |
Hebrew calendar | 5138–5139 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1434–1435 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1299–1300 |
- Kali Yuga | 4478–4479 |
Holocene calendar | 11378 |
Igbo calendar | 378–379 |
Iranian calendar | 756–757 |
Islamic calendar | 779–780 |
Japanese calendar | Eiwa 4 (永和4年) |
Javanese calendar | 1291–1292 |
Julian calendar | 1378 MCCCLXXVIII |
Korean calendar | 3711 |
Minguo calendar | 534 before ROC 民前534年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −90 |
Thai solar calendar | 1920–1921 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) 1504 or 1123 or 351 — to — 阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 1505 or 1124 or 352 |
Year 1378 (MCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Births
- January 23 – Louis III, Elector Palatine (d. 1436)
- May 27 – Zhu Quan, Chinese military commander, historian and playwright (d. 1448)
- August 16 – Hongxi Emperor of China (d. 1425)
- October 24 – David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay (d. 1402)
- December 31 – Pope Callixtus III (d. 1458)
- date unknown
- Vittorino da Feltre, Italian humanist (d. 1446)
- Joan II, Countess of Auvergne, French vassal (d. 1424)
- Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor and metal-worker (d. 1455)
- John Hardyng, English chronicler (d. 1465)
Deaths
- February 6 – Jeanne de Bourbon, queen of Charles V of France (b. 1338)
- March 27 – Pope Gregory XI
- July – Owain Lawgoch, titular Prince of Wales – assassinated (b. c. 1330)
- August 4 – Galeazzo II Visconti, Lord of Milan (b. c. 1320)
- November 29 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1316)
- November 30 – Andrew Stratford, English verderer and landowner