1370

1370 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1370 MCCCLXX
Ab urbe condita	2123
Armenian calendar	819 ԹՎ ՊԺԹ
Assyrian calendar	6120
Balinese saka calendar	1291–1292
Bengali calendar	776–777
Berber calendar	2320
English Regnal year	43  Edw. 3  – 44  Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1914
Burmese calendar	732
Byzantine calendar	6878–6879
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth  Rooster) 4067 or 3860     — to — 庚戌年 (Metal  Dog) 4068 or 3861
Coptic calendar	1086–1087
Discordian calendar	2536
Ethiopian calendar	1362–1363
Hebrew calendar	5130–5131
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1426–1427
- Shaka Samvat	1291–1292
- Kali Yuga	4470–4471
Holocene calendar	11370
Igbo calendar	370–371
Iranian calendar	748–749
Islamic calendar	771–772
Japanese calendar	Ōan 3 (応安３年)
Javanese calendar	1283–1284
Julian calendar	1370 MCCCLXX
Korean calendar	3703
Minguo calendar	542 before ROC 民前542年
Nanakshahi calendar	−98
Thai solar calendar	1912–1913
Tibetan calendar	阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 1496 or 1115 or 343     — to — 阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 1497 or 1116 or 344

Year 1370 ( MCCCLXX ) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• February 18 – The Battle of Rudau is fought between the Teutonic Knights and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania near Rudau village, north of Königsberg (now Melnikovo village in the Kaliningrad oblast). According to the Teutonic chronicler Wigand of Marburg and the Livonian chronicle of Hermann de Wartberge, the Lithuanians suffer a great defeat. ^[1]
• April 9 – Timur becomes first Amir of the Timurid Empire, following the Siege of Balkh which establishes his rule over the Chagatai Khanate, completing his conquest of Central Asia and parts of Persia. ^[2]
• May 24 – The Treaty of Stralsund ends the war between Denmark and the Hanseatic League.
• September 19 – Hundred Years' War: Siege of Limoges – The English led by Edward the Black Prince retake the city from the French ^[3] by storm with wide destruction, effectively ending the Limoges enamel industry.
• October 20 – Philip of Anjou, Titular Emperor of Constantinople, marries as his second wife Elizabeth of Slavonia (daughter of Stephen of Anjou and Margaret of Bavaria).
• November 5 – Casimir III the Great, king of Poland, dies as the result of a hunting accident, and is succeeded jointly by his sister, Elizabeth of Kujavia, and her son, Louis I of Hungary, beginning the rule of the country by the Capet-Anjou family.
• November 15 – Trần Nghệ Tông deposes Dương Nhật Lễ as emperor of Đại Việt, modern-day Vietnam.
• December 4 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Pontvallain – A French army under Bertrand du Guesclin heavily defeats an English force in surprise attacks in northwest France.
• December 20 – Pope Gregory XI succeeds Pope Urban V, as the 201st pope.

Date unknown

• For the second time since 1368, the Grand Duchy of Moscow attacks Tver, which again counter-attacks, with the aid of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Blue Horde.
• Khun Luang Pa-Ngua, ruler of Suphanburi, marches and usurps the throne of the Ayutthaya Kingdom.
• The city of Xi'an in Ming dynasty China is given a new defensive city wall.
• Hugues Aubriot begins construction of the fortress of the Bastille in Paris.
• The steel crossbow is first used as a weapon of war.

Births

• April 11 – Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1428)
• July 23 – Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder, Italian humanist (d. 1444 or 1445)
• date unknown
  • Erasmo of Narni, Italian mercenary (d. 1443)
  • Guarino da Verona, Italian humanist (d. 1460)
  • John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1408)
  • King Olav IV of Norway (d. 1387)
  • Jan Piast, Duke of Ziebice (d. 1428)
  • Jan Sindel, Polish scientist (d. 1443)
• probable
  • Joan of Navarre, Queen of England, Duchess regent of Brittany (d. 1437)
  • John Lydgate, English Benedictine monk and poet (d. 1451)
  • Paulus Vladimiri, Polish scholar (d. 1435)
  • Duke William of Austria (d. 1406)

Deaths

• May 31 – St. Vitalis of Assisi, Italian hermit (b. 1295)
• c. September 20 – Edward of Angoulême, French-born royal prince of England (b. 1365)
• November 5 – Casimir III the Great, King of Poland (b. 1310)
• December 19 – Pope Urban V (b. 1310) ^[4]
• date unknown
  • Simeon Uroš, Emperor of Serbs and Greeks and half-brother of Stefan Dušan (b. 1326)
  • Vedanta Desika, Indian Hindu guru and poet (b. 1269)
  • Yang Weizhen, Chinese painter (b. c. 1296)
  • Toghon Temür, Emperor Huizong of Yuan dynasty China (b. 1320)
• probable date– Empress Gi of Yuan dynasty China (b. 1315)

References

1. Rowell, S. C. (1994). Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire Within East-Central Europe, 1295-1345. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series. Cambridge University Press. p. 243. ISBN 978-0-521-45011-9.
2. Marozzi, Justin (2004). Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, conqueror of the world. HarperCollins.
3. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.  168–169. ISBN   0-304-35730-8.
4. "Blessed Urban V | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved March 31, 2019.