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Year 1379 (MCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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January–December

  • May 29 – John I succeeds his father, Henry II, as King of Castile and King of León.
  • September 9 – Treaty of Neuberg signed, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between brothers Albert III and Leopold III. Albert III retains the title of Duke of Austria.

    • Date unknown

  • The Venetians and Ottomans invade Constantinople and restore John V Palaiologos as Byzantine co-emperor. Andronikos IV Palaiologos is allowed to remain as Byzantine co-emperor but is confined to the city of Silivri for the remainder of his life.
  • Bairam Khawaja establishes the independent principality of the Turkomans of the Black Sheep Empire in present day Armenia.
  • Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow raids Estonia.
  • Foundation of New College, Oxford.
  • Foundation of Wisbech Grammar School in England.

    • Births

  • October 4 – King Henry III of Castile (d. 1406)
  • date unknown – Jerome of Prague, Hussite (d. 1416)

    • Deaths

  • February 18 – Albert II of Mecklenburg (b. c. 1318)
  • May 29 – King Henry II of Castile (b. 1334)
  • November 15 – Otto V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1346)
  • December 16 – John Fitzalan, Marshal of England (drowned)
  • date unknown – Aqsara'i, Persian physician

    • References

    1379 Wikipedia
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