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Year 1376 (MCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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January–December

  • March – The peace treaty between England and France is extended until April of 1377.
  • March 31 – Pope Gregory XI excommunicates all members of the government of Florence and places the city under an interdict.
  • April 28 – The start of Good Parliament in England, so called because its members attempted to reform the corrupt Royal Council in 1376 on April 28.
  • 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. At that time, it was the longest Parliament to have sat in England.
  • 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.

    • Date unknown

  • The city of Sredets in Bulgaria is renamed Sofia after the Church of St Sophia
  • Khan Qamar al-din of Mongolistan unsuccessfully invades Timur’s eastern province of Farghana.
  • Timur leads his army against troops of the White Horde which have arrived at Sighnaq. However, winter sets in, preventing an immediate battle.
  • Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow raids Mongol-ruled Volga Bulgaria (now in Russia).
  • Acamapichtli is elected Tlatoani of the Aztec empire after the death of Tenoch, the first Aztec ruler.
  • Mamluk Sultan of Egypt Nasir-ad-Din Shaban II is succeeded by Alah-ad-Din Ali.
  • Qutbuddin succeeds his brother, Shahabuddin, as Sultan of Kashmir.

    • Births

  • November 9 – Edmund Mortimer, English nobleman and rebel (d. c. 1409)
  • date unknown
  • Gihwa, scholar in Korean Buddhism (d. 1433)
  • Sofia of Bavaria, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1425)
  • Yusuf III, Sultan of Granada (d. 1417)

    • Deaths

  • January 24 – Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader
  • June 8 – Edward, the Black Prince, son of King Edward III of England (b. 1330)
  • July 22 – Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1310)
  • September 1 – Philip of Valois, Duke of Orléans (b. 1336)

    • References

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