1376{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:1373 1374 1375 - 1376 - 1377 1378 1379\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades: 1340s 1350s 1360s - 1370s - 1380s 1390s 1400s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century\n|} Events\n* March – The treaty between England and France is extended until April of 1377.\n* April 28 - The Good Parliament in England begins. \n* 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. \n* July 10 – The Good Parliament, the longest Parliament which has yet sat in England, is dissolved.\n* August 12 - Andronicus Palaeologus, son of John V Palaeologus, enters Constantinople and takes his father prisoner.\n* September? – John of Gaunt summons John Wycliffe from Oxford to appear before the king’s council, intending to use him against bishops who have become Gaunt’s enemies.\n* Fall - John of Gaunt, through the royal council, proceeds to undo the work of the Good Parliament. \n* December 25 – John of Gaunt presents his nephew prince Richard of Bordeaux to the feudatories of the realm and swears to uphold his right to succeed Edward III.\n* Moghulistan khan Qamar al-din invades Timur’s easter province of Farghana. Tiimur is almost defeated, but manages to turn the tide against his foes and drive them back into their own country.\n* Catherine of Siena visits Pope Gregory XI in Avignon, convincing him to move the Papacy back to Rome\n* Olaf IV of Norway becomes King of Denmark (as Olaf III of Denmark)\n* Sredets, Bulgaria, is renamed Sofia\n* Late in year - Timur] leads his army against troops of the White Horde which have arrived at Sighnaq. However, winter has set in, precluding the possibility of an immediate battle. Arts and Literature\n* December 25 – Geoffrey Chaucer goes abroad on secret state business in the company of Sir John Burley. Births\n* November 9 - Edmund Mortimer\n* Giwha, Scholar in Korean Buddhism Deaths\n* June 8 - Edward the Black Prince (son of King Edward III of England)\n* Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury\n* Waldemar Atterdag, King of Denmark \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n |
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