1376
Year 1376 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
- March - The peace treaty between England and France is extended until April, 1377.
- March 31 - Pope Gregory XI excommunicates all members of the government of Florence, and places the city under an interdict.
- April 28 - The Good Parliament begins in England.
- May 3 - Olav IV Haakonsson is elected King Oluf II of Denmark, following the death of his grandfather, Valdemar IV, in 1375.
- June - Catherine of Siena visits Pope Gregory XI in Avignon, to attempt to persuade him to make peace with Florence, and move the Papacy back to Rome.
- June 7 - The dying Prince Edward summons his father, Edward III, and brother, John of Gaunt, and makes them swear to uphold the claim to the throne of his son Richard; Edward is the first "English" Prince of Wales not to become King of England.
- July 10 - The Good Parliament is dissolved.
- August 12 - With the help of the Genoese, Byzantine co-emperor Andronicus IV Palaeologus invades Constantinople and dethrones his father, John V Palaeologus, as co-emperor. John V Palaeologus is taken prisoner.
- September - John of Gaunt summons religious reformer John Wyclif to appear before the Royal Council.
- November 20 - Richard of Bordeaux, son of the Black Prince, is created Prince of Wales in succession to his father.
- December 25 - John of Gaunt presents his nephew, Richard of Bordeaux, to the feudatories of the realm and swears to uphold Richard's right to succeed Edward III.
- Unknown date - Acamapichtli becomes the first tlatoani of Tenochtitlan.
Births
- November 9 - Edmund Mortimer, English nobleman and rebel
- date unknown
- * Gihwa, scholar in Korean Buddhism
- * Sofia of Bavaria, queen consort of Bohemia
- * Yusuf III, Sultan of Granada
Deaths
- January 24 - Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader
- April 6 - Przecław of Pogorzela, Cardinal and Bishop of Wrocław
- May 30 - Joan of Ponthieu, Dame of Epernon, French countess regent
- June 8 - Edward, the Black Prince, son of King Edward III of England
- July 22 - Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury
- September 30 - Adelaide of Vianden, German countess