1366
Year 1366 was a common year starting on Thursday 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 from Earth.
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 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
- August 28 - Jean Le Maingre, marshal of France date unknown
- * Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan, English noblewoman
- * Miran Shah, governor of Azerbaijan Approximate
- * Eleanor de Bohun, English noble
Deaths
- January 25 - Henry Suso, German mystic
- April 26 - Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury
- May 20 - Maria of Calabria, Empress of Constantinople
- Summer - Ming Yuzhen, founder of the rebel empire of Daxia
- October 14 - Ibn Nubata, Arab poet
- October 18 - Petrus Torkilsson, Archbishop of Uppsala