Girish Mahajan (Editor)

1372

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit


Year 1372 (MCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

January–December

  • May – Owain Lawgoch makes a second attempt to take the throne of Wales. Whilst attacking the island of Guernsey, he abandons the invasion in order to fight for France at La Rochelle.
  • June 22 – Battle of La Rochelle: The French and the Castilians defeat the English. The French gain control of the English Channel for the first time since 1340.

    • Date unknown

  • Encounter of Sintra: twenty Portuguese knights rout four hundred Castilian infantrymen of the country.
  • Peace is declared between the Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples.
  • The Kingdom of Chūzan (now in southern Japan) enters tributary relations with Ming Dynasty China.
  • Four-year-old Muhammad as-Said succeeds his father, Abu l-Fariz Abdul Aziz I, as Marinid Sultan of Morocco.
  • Newaya Maryam succeeds his father, Newaya Krestos, as ruler of Ethiopia.
  • The city of Aachen, Germany, begins adding a Roman numeral Anno Domini date to a few of its coins, the first city in the world to do so.

    • Births

  • February 18 – Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Islamic scholar (d. 1448)
  • March 13 – Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, son of king Charles V of France (d. 1407)
  • October – John Hastings, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (d. 1389)

    • Deaths

  • January 11 – Eleanor of Lancaster, English noblewoman (b. 1318)
  • March 21 – Rudolf VI, Margrave of Baden
  • August 24 – Casimir III, Duke of Pomerania (b. 1348)
  • August 31 – Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (b. 1301)
  • date unknown – Bagrat I of Imereti, King of Georgia

    • References

    1372 Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


    Similar Topics