Year '1377' was a
common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar.
Events
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January 17 –
Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back from
Avignon to
Rome.
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January 27 - The
Bad Parliament begins sitting in
England. Influenced by Prince
John of Gaunt, it undoes the work done by the
Good Parliament, the previous year, to reduce corruption in the Royal Council. It also introduces a
poll tax.
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March 2 – The
Bad Parliament dissolved.
★ May - Continuous riots in Rome induce Gregory XI to move temporarily back to
Avignon.
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May 22 -
Pope Gregory XI issues five
Bulls condemning the opinion of
John Wycliffe that Catholic priests should live in poverty like the twelve disciples of
Jesus.
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June 21 -
Edward III of England dies of a stroke at age 65, ending his 50 year reign.
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July 16 - Coronation of 10-year-old
Richard II, grandson of
Edward III. Richard's uncle,
John of Gaunt, rules on his behalf until
1381.
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October 13 – Richard II’s first parliament meets.
★ Informed that Khan Urus of the
White Horde has died,
Timur of the
Timurid Empire sends
Tokhtamysh to take the Horde throne, but is defeated by Urus' son, Timur Malik.
★ A sermon by a German monk states "the game of
cards has come to us this year" and prohibitions against cards are issued by
Prince John of Castile and the cities of
Florence and
Basel.
★ The Pope's representative in northern Italy, Robert of Geneva (the future
antipope Clement VII), pillages
Cesena and 4,000 antipapal rebels are massacred.
★
Władysław II Jagiello succeeds his father,
Algirdas, as
Grand Duke of Lithuania.
Jagiello removes his uncle,
Kęstutis, as co-ruler.
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Sayf ad-Din Berkuk leads a revolt against the
Mamluk Sultan of
Egypt Alah-ad-Din Ali.
★ 7 year old
Mary of Sicily succeeds her father,
Frederick III the Simple.
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Harihara II succeeds
Bukka as ruler of the
Vijayanagara Empire (now in southern
India).
★
Radu I succeeds
Vladislav I as
Prince of Wallachia (now southern
Romania).
★ Tran Hien succeeds Tran KÃnh as King of
Vietnam.
★ A rebellion against the
Majapahit Empire is squashed in
Sumatra.
★ Mujahid becomes
Bahmani Sultan of
Deccan (now part of southern
India) after the death of his father, Sultan
Mohammed Shah I.
★ The
Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge is completed, and becomes the longest
arch bridge in the world to be built for four centuries
Arts and Literature
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May 10 – A deputy is appointed to take charge of Chaucer’s duties at customs, Chaucer being busy with diplomatic business.
★
Geoffrey Chaucer makes two trips to France this year.
★
Ibn Khaldun begins work on the ''
Muqaddimah''.
★
Nicole Oresme is elected
bishop of Lisieux. Oresme's French translations from Latin versions of
Aristotle are an important contribution to the development of the
French language.
★
Al-Jurjani returns to
Shiraz from
Constantinople to become a teacher.
Births
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February 11 - King
Ladislas of Naples (d.
1414)
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May 2 -
Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian poet (died
1445)
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August 1 -
Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (died
1433)
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August 30 -
Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (died
1447)
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September 19 - Duke
Albert IV of Austria (died
1404)
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December 5 -
Jianwen Emperor of China (died
1402)
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Louis II of Anjou (died
1417)
★
Henry Cardinal Beaufort, Lord Chancellor of England (died
1447)
★
Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (died
1446)
★ Duke
Ernest of Austria (died
1424)
Deaths
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February 6 -
Jeanne de Bourbon, queen of
Charles V of France (born
1338)
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June 21 - King
Edward III of England (born
1312)
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December 1 -
Magnus II, former
King of Sweden (born
1316)
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Ibn Battuta, Moroccan explorer (born
1304)
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Guillaume de Machaut, French poet and composer
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Algirdas, Grand Prince of Lithuania
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Frederick III the Simple, King of Sicily
Other
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Crosman model 1377 ("American Classic")
pellet gun
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