1376
* March – The treaty between
England and
France is extended until April of
1377.
*
April 28 - The
Good Parliament in England begins.
*
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.
*
July 10 – The
Good Parliament, the longest Parliament which has yet sat in England, is dissolved.
*
August 12 -
Andronicus IV Palaeologus, son of
John V Palaeologus, enters
Constantinople and takes his father prisoner.
* September? – John of Gaunt summons
John Wycliffe from
Oxford to appear before the king's council, intending to use him against bishops who have become Gaunt's enemies.
*
Fall - John of Gaunt, through the royal council, proceeds to undo the work of the Good Parliament.
*
December 25 – John of Gaunt presents his nephew prince Richard of Bordeaux to the feudatories of the realm and swears to uphold his right to succeed Edward III.
*
Moghulistan khan Qamar al-din invades
Timur's easter province of
Farghana. Tiimur is almost defeated, but manages to turn the tide against his foes and drive them back into their own country.
*
Acamapichtli becomes the first formal Tlatoani of the Aztec.
*
Catherine of Siena visits
Pope Gregory XI in
Avignon, convincing him to move the Papacy back to
Rome*
Olaf IV of Norway becomes
King of Denmark (as Olaf III of Denmark)
* Sredets,
Bulgaria, is renamed
Sofia* Late in year -
Timur leads his army against troops of the
White Horde which have arrived at Sighnaq. However, winter has set in, precluding the possibility of an immediate battle.
* Kingdom of
Bulgaria excepts Ottoman rule.
*
December 25 –
Geoffrey Chaucer goes abroad on secret state business in the company of Sir John Burley.
*
November 9 -
Edmund Mortimer, English rebel (died
1409)
*
Gihwa, Scholar in
Korean Buddhism*
January 24 -
Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader
*
June 8 -
Edward, the Black Prince, son of King
Edward III of England (born
1330)
*
Simon Langham,
Archbishop of Canterbury*
Tenoch, Aztec ruler
