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Template:Year nav Template:C14 year in topicYear 1366 (MCCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]- ↑ "Closest Approaches to the Earth by Comets". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved June 28, 2012.
- ↑ Andrew, M. (2016). The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Chaucer. Springer. p. 11. ISBN 9780230273962.
- ↑ "Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
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