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Year 1369 (MCCCLXIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

January–December

  • March 14 – Pedro of Castile loses the Battle of Montiel to an alliance between the French and his half-brother Henry II.
  • May – King Charles V of France renounces the Treaty of Brétigny and war is declared between France and England. The French recapture most of Aquitaine.
  • December – Financed by Charles V of France, Welshman Owain Lawgoch launches an invasion fleet against the English in an attempt to claim the throne of Wales. A storm causes Owain to abandon the invasion.

    • Date unknown

  • Venice repels a Hungarian invasion.
  • Hugues Aubriot founds the Bastille in Paris.
  • Tamerlane names the city of Samarkand as the capital of his empire.
  • Košice becomes the first town in Europe to be granted its own coat of arms.
  • The Turks invade Bulgaria.
  • The Thai Kingdom of Ayutthaya conquers Cambodia for a second time.
  • Duong Nhat Le succeeds Tran Hao as King of Vietnam.
  • The Hongwu Emperor of the Chinese Ming dynasty issues a decree ordering every country magistrate in the empire to open a Confucian school of learning.
  • Official production of Jingdezhen porcelain in Ming dynasty China is on record.

    • Births

  • May 28 – Muzio Sforza, condottiero (d. 1424)
  • date unknown – William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (d. 1414)
  • probable – King Constantine I of Georgia (d. c. 1412)
  • approximate – John Huss, Czech priest and philosopher (d. 1415)
  • approximate – Margareta, Sami missionary (d. 1425)

    • Deaths

  • January 17 – King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328)
  • March 23 – King Peter of Castile (b. 1334) (murdered after the battle of Montiel)
  • August 15 – Philippa of Hainault, queen of Edward III of England (b. 1311) (dropsy)
  • October 3 – Margaret, Countess of Tyrol (b. 1318)
  • November 13 – Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick
  • date unknown
  • Sir John Chandos, English knight
  • Agnes Dunbar, Countess of Moray
  • Magnus the Pious, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
  • Ramathibodi I, first king of Ayutthaya (b. 1314)

    • References

    1369 Wikipedia
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