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| 1372 by topic |
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| 1372 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1372 MCCCLXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2125 |
| Armenian calendar | 821 ԹՎ ՊԻԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6122 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1293–1294 |
| Bengali calendar | 779 |
| Berber calendar | 2322 |
| English Regnal year | 45 Edw. 3 – 46 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1916 |
| Burmese calendar | 734 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6880–6881 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4069 or 3862 — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4070 or 3863 |
| Coptic calendar | 1088–1089 |
| Discordian calendar | 2538 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1364–1365 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5132–5133 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1428–1429 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1293–1294 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4472–4473 |
| Holocene calendar | 11372 |
| Igbo calendar | 372–373 |
| Iranian calendar | 750–751 |
| Islamic calendar | 773–774 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōan 5 (応安５年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1285–1286 |
| Julian calendar | 1372 MCCCLXXII |
| Korean calendar | 3705 |
| Minguo calendar | 540 before ROC 民前540年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −96 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1914–1915 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 1498 or 1117 or 345 — to — 阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 1499 or 1118 or 346 |
Year 1372 (MCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- May – Owain Lawgoch makes a second attempt to take the throne of Wales. Whilst attacking the island of Guernsey, he abandons the invasion in order to fight for France at La Rochelle.
- June 22 – Battle of La Rochelle: The French and the Castilians defeat the English. The French gain control of the English Channel for the first time since 1340.
Date unknown
- Encounter of Sintra: Twenty Portuguese knights rout four hundred Castilian infantrymen of the country.
- Peace is declared between the Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples.
- The Kingdom of Chūzan (now in southern Japan) enters tributary relations with Ming Dynasty China.
- Four-year-old Muhammad as-Said succeeds his father, Abu l-Fariz Abdul Aziz I, as Marinid Sultan of Morocco.
- Newaya Maryam succeeds his father, Newaya Krestos, as ruler of Ethiopia.
- The city of Aachen, Germany, begins adding a Roman numeral Anno Domini date to a few of its coins, the first city in the world to do so.
Births
- February 18 – Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Islamic scholar (d. 1449)
- March 13 – Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, son of King Charles V of France (d. 1407)
- October – John Hastings, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (d. 1389)
- approximate date – Helena Dragaš, empress consort of Byzantium (d. 1450)
Deaths
- January 11 – Eleanor of Lancaster, English noblewoman (b. 1318)
- March 19 – John II, Marquess of Montferrat (b. 1321)
- March 21 – Rudolf VI, Margrave of Baden
- August 24 – Casimir III, Duke of Pomerania (b. 1348)
- August 31 – Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (b. 1301)
- date unknown – Bagrat I of Imereti, King of Georgia