1366

This article is about the year 1366. For the CPU socket by Intel, see LGA 1366.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1340s 1350s 1360s 1370s 1380s
Years:	1363 1364 1365 1366 1367 1368 1369

1366 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1366 MCCCLXVI
Ab urbe condita	2119
Armenian calendar	815 ԹՎ ՊԺԵ
Assyrian calendar	6116
Balinese saka calendar	1287–1288
Bengali calendar	773
Berber calendar	2316
English Regnal year	39  Edw. 3  – 40  Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1910
Burmese calendar	728
Byzantine calendar	6874–6875
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood  Snake) 4063 or 3856     — to — 丙午年 (Fire  Horse) 4064 or 3857
Coptic calendar	1082–1083
Discordian calendar	2532
Ethiopian calendar	1358–1359
Hebrew calendar	5126–5127
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1422–1423
- Shaka Samvat	1287–1288
- Kali Yuga	4466–4467
Holocene calendar	11366
Igbo calendar	366–367
Iranian calendar	744–745
Islamic calendar	767–768
Japanese calendar	Jōji 5 (貞治５年)
Javanese calendar	1279–1280
Julian calendar	1366 MCCCLXVI
Korean calendar	3699
Minguo calendar	546 before ROC 民前546年
Nanakshahi calendar	−102
Thai solar calendar	1908–1909
Tibetan calendar	阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1492 or 1111 or 339     — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1493 or 1112 or 340

Year 1366 ( MCCCLXVI ) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• March 13 – Henry II deposes his half-brother, Pedro of Castile, to become King of Castile.
• October 12 – Frederick III of Sicily forbids decorations on synagogues.
• October 26 – Comet 55P/Tempel–Tuttle passes 0.0229  AU (3,430,000  km ; 2,130,000  mi ) from Earth. ^[1]

Date unknown

• War continues between the Hindu Vijayanagar Empire and the Muslim Bahmani Sultanate in modern-day southern India.
• Dmitri Donskoi, ruler of Moscow and Vladimir, makes peace with Dmitri Konstantinovich, former ruler of Vladimir.
• Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz I of Morocco succeeds assassinated Abu Zayyan as Sultan of the Marinid Empire in Morocco.
• The Statutes of Kilkenny are passed, aiming to curb the decline of the Hiberno-Norman Lordship of Ireland.
• The Den Hoorn brewery is founded at Leuven in the Low Countries. In 1717 this will be renamed the Brouwerij Artois, and later releases a beer in 1926 named Stella Artois.
• Zhu Yuanzhang, leader of the Red Turban Rebellion that will overthrow the Yuan dynasty and establish the Ming dynasty two years later, begins building the walls for a new capital city at Nanjing.
• Thomas Fraser obtains lands in Aberdeenshire (Scotland) on which he starts the building of a towerhouse, that will later be known as Muchalls Castle.

Births

• May 11 – Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England (d. 1394) ^[2]
• August 28 – Jean Le Maingre, marshal of France (d. 1421)
• date unknown
  • Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan, English noblewoman (d. 1425)
  • Miran Shah, governor of Azerbaijan (d. 1408)
• Approximate
  • Eleanor de Bohun, English noble (d.1399) ^[3]

Deaths

• January 25 – Henry Suso, German mystic (b. c. 1295)
• April 26 – Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury
• May 20 – Maria of Calabria, Empress of Constantinople (b. 1329)
• Summer – Ming Yuzhen, founder of the rebel empire of Daxia (b. 1331)
• October 14 – Ibn Nubata, Arab poet (b. 1287) ^[4]
• October 18 – Petrus Torkilsson, Archbishop of Uppsala

References

1. "Closest Approaches to the Earth by Comets". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved June 28, 2012.
2. Andrew, M. (2016). The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Chaucer. Springer. p. 11. ISBN   9780230273962.
3. "Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
4. Rikabi, J. (1971). "Ibn Nubāta". In Lewis, B.; Ménage, V. L.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume III: H–Iram. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 900–901. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_3325. OCLC   495469525.