Editing 1373

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{{C14 year in topic}}Year '''1373''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCCCLXXIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Saturday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[March 24]] &ndash; The Treaty of [[Santarém, Portugal|Santarém]] is signed between [[Ferdinand I of Portugal]] and [[Henry II of Castile]], ending the second war between the two countries.<ref>One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ferdinand I. of Portugal". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 265.</ref>
* [[April 28]] &ndash; [[Hundred Years' War]]: The French re-capture most of [[Brittany]] from the English, but are unable to take [[Brest, France|Brest]].<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=108–110|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[May 13]] &ndash; English [[anchoress]] Dame [[Julian of Norwich]] receives the sixteen ''[[Revelations of Divine Love]]''.
* [[June 16]] &ndash; The [[Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373|Anglo-Portuguese Treaty]] is signed in London, and is the oldest active treaty in the world.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/><ref>{{cite book|title=The New Guinness Book of Records 1996|year=1995|publisher=Guinness Publishing|page=183}}</ref>
* [[August]] &ndash; Hundred Years' War: [[John of Gaunt]] launches a new invasion of France.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/168|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/168 168–169]}}</ref>
* [[November]]? &ndash; [[Philip II, Prince of Taranto]] hands over the rule of Achaea (modern-day southern [[Greece]]) to his cousin, [[Joanna I of Naples]].

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* [[Louis I of Hungary]] takes Severin again, but the Vlachs will recover it in [[1376]]–[[1377]].
* [[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.<ref>Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504652-8, pp. 95–96.</ref>
* [[Constantine IV, King of Armenia|Constantine IV]], ruler of the [[Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia]] (modern-day southern Turkey), is assassinated; he is succeeded by his distant cousin [[Leo V, King of Armenia|Leo V]].
* The death of Sultan [[Muhammad III ibn Abd al-Aziz]] begins a period of political instability in [[Morocco]].
* The city of [[Phnom Penh]] (modern-day capital city of [[Cambodia]]) is founded.
* [[Bristol]] is made a [[county corporate]], the first town in the [[Kingdom of England]] outside London to be granted this status.
* A city wall is built around [[Lisbon]], Portugal to resist invasion by [[Crown of Castile|Castile]].
* [[Merton College Library]] is built in [[Oxford]], England.
* The [[Adina Mosque]] is built in [[Bengal]].
* The [[Emperor of China|Chinese emperor]] of the [[Ming dynasty]], the [[Hongwu Emperor]], suspends the traditional [[Imperial examination|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]].</onlyinclude>

== Births ==
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Marie d'Alençon]], French princess (d. [[1417]])
* [[June 25]] &ndash; Queen [[Joanna II of Naples]] (d. [[1435]])
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; [[Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford]] (b. [[1342]])
* [[February]] &ndash; [[Ibn Kathir]], Mamluk Islamic scholar (b. [[1301]])
* [[July 23]] &ndash; [[Saint Birgitta]], Swedish saint (b. [[1303]])
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre]] (b. [[1343]])
* [[December 7]] &ndash; [[Rafał of Tarnów]], Polish nobleman (b. c. [[1330]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Constantine IV, King of Armenia]] (assassinated)
** [[Robert le Coq]], French bishop and councillor
**[[Tiphaine Raguenel]], Breton astrologer (b. c. [[1335]])

== References ==
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