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{{C14 year in topic}}Year '''1376''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCCCLXXVI]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Tuesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==

=== January&ndash;December ===
 
* [[March]] &ndash; The peace treaty between [[Kingdom of England|England]] and [[Kingdom of France|France]] is extended until [[April]], [[1377]].
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Pope Gregory XI]] excommunicates all members of the government of Florence, and places the city under an interdict. 
* [[April 28]] &ndash; The [[Good Parliament]] begins in England (so called because its members attempted to reform the corrupt Royal Council on that date).
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Olav IV of Norway|Olav IV Haakonsson]] is elected King Oluf II of Denmark, following the death of his grandfather, [[Valdemar IV]], in [[1375]].
* [[June]] &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; The dying [[Edward the Black Prince|Prince Edward]] summons his father, [[Edward III of England|Edward III]], and brother, [[John of Gaunt]], and makes them swear to uphold the claim to the throne of his son [[Richard II of England|Richard]]; Edward is the first "English" Prince of Wales not to become King of England. 
* [[July 10]] &ndash; The [[Good Parliament]] is dissolved (at that time, it was the longest Parliament to have sat in England).
* [[August 12]] &ndash; With the help of the [[Republic of Genoa|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]] &ndash; John of Gaunt summons religious reformer [[John Wyclif]] to appear before the Royal Council.
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Richard II of England|Richard of Bordeaux]], son of the Black Prince, is created [[Prince of Wales]] in succession to his father.
* [[December 25]] &ndash; 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.

=== Dates Unknown ===
* [[Acamapichtli]] becomes the first [[tlatoani]] of [[Tenochtitlan]].

== Births ==
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Edmund Mortimer (1376-1409)|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]] &ndash; [[Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel]], English military leader
* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[Przecław of Pogorzela]], [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]] and [[Bishop of Wrocław]] (b. [[1310]])
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Joan of Ponthieu, Dame of Epernon]], French countess regent 
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[Edward, the Black Prince]], son of King [[Edward III of England]] (b. [[1330]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/black_prince.shtml|title=Edward, the Black Prince (1330 - 1376)|website=bbc.co.uk|access-date=3 January 2017}}</ref>
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[Simon Langham]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (b. [[1310]])
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[Adelaide of Vianden]], German countess<ref>{{cite book |last=Dek |first=A.W.E. |date=1970 |title=Genealogie van het Vorstenhuis Nassau |language=nl |location=Zaltbommel |publisher=Europese Bibliotheek |page=66 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=De Roo van Alderwerelt |first=J.K.H. |date=1960 |title=De graven van Vianden. Bijdrage tot een genealogie van het geslacht der graven van Vianden tot de vererving van het graafschap in het Nassause huis |language=nl |journal=De Nederlandsche Leeuw, Maandblad van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde |volume=1960 |issue=6 |page=196 }}</ref>

== References ==
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