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1376
thumb|250px|June 16: Saint Catherine of Siena visits Pope Gregory XI in France and persuades him to travel from Avignon to Rome for a peace mission.
1376
Year 1376 (MCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
January 23 – In the Holy Roman Empire, Wenceslaus I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg and Elector of Saxony, marries Cecilia da Carrara, daughter of Francesco I da Carrara, Lord of Padua.41 735 736 Wenceslas W. of Sommerfeld ADB:Wenceslas (Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg)
January – In what is now Myanmar Ma Sein of Toungoo, the Viceroy of Taungoo who had been appointed by the King of Binnya U of Hanthawaddy to replace the assassinated Viceroy Pyanchi, is murdered near Pyay while trying to forment a rebellion against the Kingdom of Ava.Sein Lwin Lay Kahtika U Mintaya Shwe Hti and Bayinnaung: Ketumadi Taungoo Yazawin Burmese Yangon Yan Aung Sarpay 1968 2006 23-24
February 12 – English mercenary John Hawkwood, condottiero for Pope Gregory XI in the War of the Eight Saints against the Republic of Florence, arrives at Faenza to suppress a potential revolt against the papal governor. He and his soldiers, who were not paid by the Pope, go on to loot the town instead of protecting it.Caferro William William Caferro 2006 John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-century Italy Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore 189-190 978-0-8018-8323-1
February 19 – Jan III becomes the new Duke of Oświęcim in Poland upon the death of his father, Jan II of Oświęcim.Jasiński Kazimierz Rodowód Piastów śląskich Genealogy of the Silesian Piasts 2007 Avalon Kraków 621 2nd
February 26 – The Böse Fasnacht, a riot in the Swiss city of Basel, breaks out during a tournament at a carnival and numerous people are killed, including several of the soldiers of the Duke of Austria, Leopold III.Lukas Wenger https://stadtgeschichtebasel.ch/blog/adel-in-haft-die-boese-fasnacht-von-1376 Adel in Haft – Die “böse Fasnacht” von 1376 Nobility Imprisoned – The “Evil Carnival” of 1376 Robert Labhardt Im Kleinen das Grosse entdecken – Kurzgeschichten aus der Basler Stadtgeschichte (Discovering the Big in the Small— Short Stories from Basel’s City History) Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag Basel 2022 978-3-7245-2586-8 63–65 deRoger Jean Rebmann https://altbasel.ch/fragen/fasnacht_1376.html Die Böse Fasnacht von 1376 The Evil Carnival of 1376 altbasel.ch January 25, 2024 The city council arrests and executes 12 perpetrators, but Duke Leopold proceeds with placing the city under stricter control.
March 12 – The Treaty of Bruges, signed on June 27, 1375 between England and France to end hostilities in the Hundred Years' War for a year, is extended by agreement to June 24, 1377.Françoise Autrand Charles V: le Sage Fayard 1994 617-618 978-2-213-02769-2
March 31 – Pope Gregory XI excommunicates all members of the government of the Republic of Florence, and places the city under an interdict.Williman Daniel Karen Corsano The Interdict of Florence (31 March 1376): New Documents Rivista Di Storia Della Chiesa in Italia 56 2 2002 427-481
April–June
April 28 – The Good Parliament, so called because its members attempt to reform the corrupt Royal Council, begins in England .
May 3 – Olav IV Haakonsson is elected King Oluf II of Denmark, following the death of his grandfather, Valdemar IV, in 1375.
June 7 – The day before his death, Prince Edward of Wales, heir to the English throne and known as "The Black Prince" summons his father, King 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 (as opposed to Welsh) not to become King of England.
June 10 – Wenceslaus the Idle, son of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, is elected King of the Romans by the prince-electors.Wenceslaus 28 517
June 18 – Saint Catherine of Siena, now the Roman Catholic patron saint of Italy, visits Pope Gregory XI in Avignon in France, to attempt to persuade him to make peace with Florence, and move the Papacy back to Rome. CATERINA da Siena, santa Eugenio Dupré Theseider 1979
July–September
July 6 –
The Swiss city of Basel is placed under an imperial ban by the Habsburg dynasty's Leopold III, Duke of Austria because of the February 26 riot.
Wenceslaus the Idle is crowned King of the Romans at a ceremony in the Aachen Cathedral.
July 10 – The Good Parliament is dissolved (at this time, it is 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 13 – Pope Gregory XI departs from Avignon in France to begin his journey to Rome in an attempt to make peace between the Republic of Florence and the Papal States.
September – John of Gaunt summons religious reformer John Wyclif to appear before the Royal Council.
October–December
October 7 – King Edward III of England makes out his Last Will and Testament, formally declaring his grandson Prince Richard as his successor, describing him as "Next we give and leave to our future heir, on whom may God confer his saving Grace, Richard, namely the son of Edward of honoured memory lately prince of Wales our firstborn son".https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_reign_of_Richard_II/HW8CEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22October+1376%22&pg=PR6&printsec=frontcover Alison McHardy The Reign of Richard II: From Minority to Tyranny 1377–97 Manchester University Press 2015 20 9781526112651
October 12 – Pope Gregory XI and several cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church depart on a ship from the port of Marseille in France, and encounter severe storms before arriving in Genoa.https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Tombs_of_the_Popes/NZVDAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22October+1376%22&pg=PA96&printsec=frontcover Ferdinand Gregorovius The Tombs of the Popes: Landmarks in the History of the Papacy Victoria Home 1895 96 He will finally arrive in Rome on January 17, 1377.
October 28 – Pope Gregory XI and his cardinals sail out of the Bay of Genoa toward Corneto. Several cardinals become seriously ill, including Cardinal de Narbonne, who disembarks at Pisa and dies there.https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Irish_Monthly/kT6plmIzR1EC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22October+1376%22&pg=PA193&printsec=frontcover A Citizen Saint The Irish Monthly Magazine December 1874 McGlashan & Gill 193
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.
Unknown date
In Mexico, Acamapichtli becomes the first tlatoani (emperor) of Tenochtitlan, according to the Codex Aubin, reigning until 1395. However, the Codex Chimalpahin, his reign was from 1367 to 1387,Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón 1997 Mexican History or Chronicle Codex Chimalpahin: society and politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and other Nahua altepetl in central Mexico: the Nahuatl and Spanish annals and accounts collected by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin Arthur J. O. Anderson Susan Schroeder Norman OK University of Oklahoma Press 25–177 0-8061-2921-2 and Codex Chimalpopoca lists his reign as being from 1350 to 1403.
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)https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/black_prince.shtml Edward, the Black Prince (1330 - 1376) bbc.co.uk 3 January 2017
July 22 – Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1310)
September 30 – Adelaide of Vianden, German countessDek A.W.E. 1970 Genealogie van het Vorstenhuis Nassau nl Zaltbommel Europese Bibliotheek 66 De Roo van Alderwerelt J.K.H. 1960 De graven van Vianden. Bijdrage tot een genealogie van het geslacht der graven van Vianden tot de vererving van het graafschap in het Nassause huis nl De Nederlandsche Leeuw, Maandblad van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde 1960 6 196
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