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Year 1373 (MCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

January–December

  • March 24 – The Treaty of Santarém is signed between Ferdinand I of Portugal and Henry II of Castile, ending the second war between the two countries.
  • May 13 – Julian of Norwich receives the sixteen Revelations of Divine Love.

    • Date unknown

  • Bristol in England is made an independent county.
  • The Anglo-Portuguese alliance is signed (currently the oldest active treaty in the world).
  • The city of Phnom Penh (now the capital city of Cambodia) is founded.
  • Philip II, Prince of Taranto hands over the rule of Achaea (now southern Greece) to his cousin, Joanna I of Naples.
  • Leo V succeeds his distant cousin, Constantine IV, as King of Armenian Cilicia (now southern Turkey).
  • A city wall is built around Lisbon, Portugal to resist invasion by Castile.
  • Tran Kinh succeeds Tran Phu as King of Vietnam.
  • Byzantine co-emperor Andronikos IV Palaiologos rebels against his father, John V Palaiologos, for agreeing to let Constantinople become a vassal of the Ottoman Empire. After the rebellion fails, Ottoman Emperor Murad I commands John V Palaiologos to blind his son.
  • The death of Sultan Muhammad as-Said begins a period of political instability in Morocco.
  • Merton College Library is built in Oxford, England.
  • The Adina Mosque is built in Bengal.
  • The Chinese emperor of the Ming dynasty, the Hongwu Emperor, suspends the traditional civil service examination system after complaining that the 120 new jinshi degree-holders are too incompetent to hold office; he instead relies solely upon a system of recommendations until the civil service exams are reinstated in 1384.

    • Births

  • March 29 – Marie d'Alençon, French princess (d. 1417)
  • June 25 – Queen Joanna II of Naples (d. 1435)
  • September 22 – Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (d. 1400)
  • date unknown
  • Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (d. 1415)
  • Margery Kempe, writer of the first autobiography in English

    • Deaths

  • January 16 – Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (b. 1342)
  • February – Ibn Kathir, Islamic scholar (b. 1301)
  • July 23 – Saint Birgitta, Swedish saint (b. 1303)
  • November 3 – Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (b. 1343)
  • December 7 – Rafał of Tarnów, Polish nobleman (b. c. 1330)
  • date unknown
  • Constantine IV, King of Armenia (assassinated)
  • Robert le Coq, French bishop and councillor

    • References

    1373 Wikipedia
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