Diemazz

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century - 14th century - 15th century
Decades:	1340s 1350s 1360s - 1370s - 1380s 1390s 1400s
Years:	1370 1371 1372 1373 1374 1375 1376 1377 1378 1379
Categories:	Births - Deaths - Architecture Establishments - Disestablishments

Events and trends

• 1370: Timur, after completing his conquest of Central Asia and part of Persia, established the Timurid Empire.
• 1370: The Treaty of Stralsund ended the war between Denmark and the Hanseatic League.
• 1370: First known use of the steel crossbow as a weapon of war.
• 1371: First generally accepted reference to playing cards (in the Iberian peninsula).
• 1371: End of the Bruce dynasty in Scotland after the sudden death of David II, age 46.
• 1372: France regained control of the English Channel for the first time since 1340 after the Battle of La Rochelle.
• 1372: Declaration of peace between the Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples.
• 1373: Foundation of the city of Phnom Penh in Cambodia, today's capital.
• 1373: Anglo-Portuguese alliance, currently the world's oldest active treaty, was signed.
• 1374: Construction of the Château de Compiègne in France.
• 1374: Musa II succeeded as Mansa of the Mali Empire, now Mali & Senegal.
• 1375: Completion of John Barbour's vernacular account of Scotland's Wars of Independence for the Stewart king Robert II.
• 1375: Death of the vernacular writer Giovanni Boccaccio in Certaldo, Tuscany, age 62.
• 1376: Catherine of Siena visited Pope Gregory XI in Avignon and persuaded him to return the Papacy to Rome.
• 1377: Death of king Edward III of England, age 50.
• 1377: Gregory XI issued a series bulls to condemn John Wycliffe's opinion that Catholic priests should live in poverty like the twelve disciples of Jesus.
• 1378: Disenfranchised labourers achieved executive control of Florence under Michele di Lando for six weeks.
• 1378: Owain Lawgoch was assassinated in France by a Scot in the pay of the English, ending his efforts to reclaim the throne of Wales from England.
• 1378: Cardinals in scunner at the newly elected Pope Urban VI elected Clement VII as antipope, returned to Avignon, established a rival papal court to Rome and thus initiated what became the Western Schism.
• 1379: Foundation of New College, Oxford.

• Mamai, leader of Golden Horde broke from Khans and attempted to establish his own independent state in Russia creating chaos.
• The Krashovani, fleeing the Ottoman offensive in Serbia, settled in the Banat.

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