1376

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1350s 1360s 1370s 1380s 1390s
Years:	1373 1374 1375 1376 1377 1378 1379

1376 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1376 MCCCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2129
Armenian calendar	825 ԹՎ ՊԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	6126
Balinese saka calendar	1297–1298
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) 4073 or 3866     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 4074 or 3867
Coptic calendar	1092–1093
Discordian calendar	2542
Ethiopian calendar	1368–1369
Hebrew calendar	5136–5137
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1432–1433
- Shaka Samvat	1297–1298
- Kali Yuga	4476–4477
Holocene calendar	11376
Igbo calendar	376–377
Iranian calendar	754–755
Islamic calendar	777–778
Japanese calendar	Eiwa 2 (永和２年)
Javanese calendar	1289–1290
Julian calendar	1376 MCCCLXXVI
Korean calendar	3709
Minguo calendar	536 before ROC 民前536年
Nanakshahi calendar	−92
Thai solar calendar	1918–1919
Tibetan calendar	阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 1502 or 1121 or 349     — to — 阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 1503 or 1122 or 350

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, 1377.
• March 31 – Pope Gregory XI excommunicates all members of the government of Florence, and places the city under an interdict.
• April 28 – The Good Parliament begins in England (so called because its members attempted to reform the corrupt Royal Council on that date).
• 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.

Births

• November 9 – Edmund Mortimer, English nobleman and rebel (d. c. 1409)
• date unknown
  • 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
• April 6 – Przecław of Pogorzela, Cardinal and Bishop of Wrocław (b. 1310)
• May 30 – Joan of Ponthieu, Dame of Epernon, French countess regent
• June 8 – Edward, the Black Prince, son of King Edward III of England (b. 1330)
• July 22 – Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1310)