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Year 1370 (MCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

January–December

  • May 24 – The Treaty of Stralsund ends the war between Denmark and the Hanseatic League.
  • October 20 – Philip of Anjou, Titular Emperor of Constantinople, marries Elisabeth of Slavonia, daughter of Stephen, duke of Transylvania and Slavonia, and Margareta of Bavaria.
  • December 20 – Pope Gregory XI succeeds Pope Urban V as the 201st pope.

    • Date unknown

  • The steel crossbow is first used as a weapon of war.
  • Xian City (Chang'an) is fortified against invasion.
  • Timur completes his conquest of Central Asia and parts of Persia, establishing the Timurid Empire.
  • Trần Nghệ Tông deposes Dương Nhật Lễ as emperor of Đại Việt, now Vietnam.
  • For the second time since 1368, Grand Duchy of Moscow attacks Tver, which again counter-attacks with the aid of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Blue Horde.
  • Casimir III of Poland is succeeded jointly by his sister, Elisabeth of Kujavia, and her son, Louis I of Hungary, beginning the rule of Poland by the Capet-Anjou family.
  • The Siege of Limoges is launched.

    • Births

  • April 11 – Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1428)
  • July 23 – Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder, humanist (d. 1444 or 1445)
  • date unknown
  • Erasmo of Narni, Italian mercenary (d. 1443)
  • Guarino da Verona, Italian humanist (d. 1460)
  • John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1408)
  • King Olav IV of Norway (d. 1387)
  • Jan Piast, Duke of Ziebice (d. 1428)
  • Jan Sindel, Polish scientist (d. 1443)
  • probable
  • Joanna of Navarre, daughter of Charles II of Navarre (d. 1437)
  • John Lydgate, English Benedictine monk and poet (d. 1451)
  • Paulus Vladimiri, Polish scholar (d. 1435)
  • Duke William of Austria (d. 1406)

    • Deaths

  • May 31 – St Vitalis of Assisi (b. 1295)
  • November 5 – Casimir III of Poland (b. 1310)
  • December 19 – Pope Urban V (b. 1310)
  • date unknown
  • Vedanta Desika, Hindu poet (b. 1269)
  • Yang Weizhen, painter (b. c. 1296)
  • Ukhaantu Khan, Emperor Huizong of Yuan, last emperor of the Yuan Dynasty (b. 1320)

    • References

    1370 Wikipedia
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