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This article is about the year 1374.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1340s 1350s 1360s – 1370s – 1380s 1390s 1400s |
| Years: | 1371 1372 1373 – 1374 – 1375 1376 1377 |
| 1374 by topic | |
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| 1374 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1374 MCCCLXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2127 |
| Armenian calendar | 823 ԹՎ ՊԻԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6124 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -470–-469 |
| Bengali calendar | 781 |
| Berber calendar | 2324 |
| English Regnal year | 47 Edw. 3 – 48 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1918 |
| Burmese calendar | 736 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6882–6883 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸丑年閏十一月十八日 (4010/4070-intercalary 11-18) — to —
甲寅年十一月廿八日(4011/4071-11-28) |
| Coptic calendar | 1090–1091 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1366–1367 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5134–5135 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1430–1431 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1296–1297 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4475–4476 |
| Holocene calendar | 11374 |
| Iranian calendar | 752–753 |
| Islamic calendar | 775–776 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3707 |
| Minguo calendar | 538 before ROC 民前538年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1917 |
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Year 1374 (MCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–December
- April 23 – In recognition of his services, Edward III of England grants the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer a gallon of wine a day for the rest of his life.
- June 24 – The illness dancing mania begins in Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), possibly due to ergotism.
- November 25 – James of Baux succeeds his uncle, Philip II, as Prince of Taranto (now eastern Italy) and titular ruler of the Latin Empire (now northern Greece and western Turkey).
[edit] Date unknown
- King U of Goryeo ascends to the throne of Goryeo (now in Korea) after the assassination of King Gongmin.
- Leu Thai becomes King of Sukhothai (now in northern Thailand) after the death of King Lithai.
- Rao Biram Dev succeeds Rao Kanhadev as ruler of Marwar (now the Jodhpur district of India).
- Hasan succeeds his father, Shaikh Uvais, as ruler of the Jalayirid sultanate in present-day Iraq and western Iran. Hasan proves to be an unpopular ruler and is executed in the same year. Hasan's brother, Husain, succeeds him as ruler.
- Musa II succeeds his father, Mari Djata II, as Mansa of the Mali Empire (now Mali & Senegal).
- Robert de Juilly succeeds Raymond Berenger as Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.
- Princes from the Kingdom of Grenada choose Abu al-Abbas Ahmad to succeed Muhammad as-Said as Sultan of the Marinid Empire in Morocco. The Empire is split into the Kingdom of Fez and the Kingdom of Marrakech.
- The Château de Compiègne royal residence is built in France.
[edit] Births
- April 11 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (d. 1398)
- November 26 – Yury Dmitrievich, Russian grand prince (d. 1434)
- date unknown – Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey (d. 1400)
- probable
- Queen Jadwiga of Poland
- King Martin I of Sicily (d. 1409)
[edit] Deaths
- March 12 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan (b. 1336).
- June 5 or June 6 – William Whittlesey, Archbishop of Canterbury
- June 29 – Jan Milíč of Kroměříž, Czech priest and reformer
- July 19 – Petrarch, Italian poet (b. 1304)
- September – Joanna of Flanders, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1295)
- November 25 – Prince Philip II of Taranto
- December 1 – Magnus Ericson, king of Sweden 1319–1364 (drowned) (b. 1316)
- date unknown
- King Gongmin of Goryeo
- Gao Qi, Chinese poet (born 1336)
- King Lithai of Sukhothai
