1379

Year 1379 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

May 29 - John I succeeds his father, Henry II, as King of Castile and King of León.
June 30 - New College, Oxford, is founded in England by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester.
July 1 - Forces of the Republic of Venice and Ottoman Turks, having invaded Constantinople, restore John V Palaiologos as Byzantine co-emperor. Andronikos IV Palaiologos is allowed to remain as co-emperor, but is confined to the city of Silivri for the remainder of his life.
September 9 - The Treaty of Neuberg is signed, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between brothers Albert III and Leopold III. Albert III retains the title of Duke of Austria.
Date unknown
Bairam Khawaja establishes the independent principality of the Kara Koyunlu, in modern-day Armenia.
Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow raids Estonia.
In the Hundred Years' War, the French lose control of most of Brittany to the English.
Wisbech Grammar School is founded in England.
Timur conquers the Sufid Dynasty of Khwarazm.
Births
October 4 - King Henry III of Castile
date unknown
* Jerome of Prague, Hussite
* Empress Zhang of China
Deaths
February 18 - Albert II of Mecklenburg
May 29 - King Henry II of Castile
November 15 - Otto V, Duke of Bavaria
December 16 - John Fitzalan, Marshal of England
date unknown - Aqsara'i, Persian physician